Join Elly for a gentle walk and talk around and through Mile End’s green lungs and blue veins to consider how the last 100 years of urban planning have influenced the area’s natural voices. You’ll be exploring how nature weaves into the bustling city as you amble in a circular route through Mile End Park, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park and along Lower Regents Canal.
You’ll be also looking through nature’s lens to explore what and who lives, often unseen, inside the hubbub of the city and discussing how we can connect our natural neighbours. In Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, you’ll be exploring how the Victorian-era graveyard came to be a nature reserve and some of the heritage within this mini urban forest.
Terrain is mostly flat, with a steeper hill in Mile End Park over the Green Bridge. Pathways in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park are not paved and can be muddy depending on the weather. There is a small coffee cart (a pavement patisserie!) in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, but participants are invited to bring their own snacks and drinks.
Come walk and chat with Elly and other local community members about Mile End’s urban history and planning, birds, trees and plants, and how we can relate and connect to the intricate network of living things around us.
Walk starts at the south entrance of Mile End Park on Rhodeswell Road (E3 4RR). Closest tube is Mile End.
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