Places to explore near Hackney Downs StationHackney

London's first public park, opened in 1845 and long known as the People's Park.

1.9 km SE

Planting threaded through brutalist walkways on the site of London's first public park.

4 km SW

The river from its Cotswold trickle to the Thames Barrier — the gentlest long walk in Britain.

4.5 km S · spans 7 counties

William the Conqueror's Thames fortress, home of the Crown Jewels.

4.6 km S

Wren's domed cathedral on Ludgate Hill, finished in 1710 after the Great Fire, with its Whispering Gallery and the tombs of Nelson and Wellington.

4.7 km SW

Victorian bascule bridge beside the Tower of London, opened in 1894, with glass-floored high walkways and steam-age engine rooms.

4.9 km S

A Victorian burial ground of 1839 where Karl Marx and George Eliot lie.

6.2 km W

Nelson's Column and the National Gallery at the heart of London.

6.5 km SW

Barry and Pugin's Gothic home of Parliament, rebuilt after the 1834 fire around medieval Westminster Hall, with Big Ben in the Elizabeth Tower.

7 km SW

London's oldest royal park, enclosed by Henry VIII, with pelicans kept here since 1664.

7 km SW

Coronation church of England’s monarchs since 1066.

7.2 km SW

One of the Royal Parks, walled by Charles II in 1660 — just trees and grass.

7.6 km SW

The monarch's London palace, its State Rooms open each summer.

7.9 km SW

Wellington's townhouse at Hyde Park Corner, nicknamed Number One London, filled with his paintings and Canova's colossal nude statue of Napoleon.

8.1 km SW

London's great royal park of the Serpentine and Speakers' Corner.

8.3 km SW

London to Birmingham by water — the trunk route of the canal age, with arms reaching Leicester, Aylesbury, Northampton and Paddington.

8.4 km SW · spans 9 counties

An Edwardian pergola of stone columns and wisteria built for soap magnate Lord Leverhulme.

8.6 km W

London's flood defence across the tideway at Woolwich — ten steel gates that rise from the riverbed when a surge threatens the city.

8.8 km SE

Royal park climbing to the Observatory and the Prime Meridian.

8.9 km SE

Queen Caroline's 1720s pleasure garden, with J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan statue by the Long Water.

9.4 km SW

A National Trust place in London.

0.7 km E

Down the Lea from its source at Leagrave to the Thames at Limehouse — flat towpath walking through Hertford and the Olympic Park.

1.4 km N · spans 4 counties

London's canal — from Little Venice round Regent's Park and through Camden Town to the Thames at Limehouse.

1.5 km S · London

London's inner orbital walk, stringing together 78 miles of parks, canals and viewpoints through the middle suburbs.

1.8 km NE · London

The Lea made navigable — from Hertford through the Lee Valley's reservoirs and marshes to Bow Locks on the edge of the Thames.

1.8 km NE · London, Hertfordshire & Essex

A Nonconformist burial ground where Blake, Bunyan and Defoe lie among plane trees.

3.4 km SW

An Inn of Court whose garden, The Walks, was laid out partly under Francis Bacon.

4.9 km SW

A Bloomsbury burial ground of 1714, reopened as a public garden among old headstones and mature trees.

4.9 km SW

Tall west gable with a 14th-century rose window, surviving from the Southwark palace where Winchester's bishops stayed when in London.

5.1 km SW