River Lea Walk

Please note later start time.

This is a moderately flat walk of just under 9 miles. We start out following the Copper mill stream, via Walthamstow Wetlands, the Engine House (built in 1894, now a café and wildlife visitor centre), The Copper Mill Tower (built in 1806). 

After the Tower we join the River Lea, continuing on via Walthamstow Marshes, Middlesex Filter beds (built in the 1800s to prevent the spread of cholera) and onto the Olympic park for lunch.

At our lunch stop there are a number of lunch options to choose from.  If you have a packed lunch there are plenty of outside seating and public toilets near the Hackney Bridge Kitchen along East Bay Lane by the river. There are also coffee shops nearby for hot drinks. If you prefer a hot meal, there are plenty of choices inside the Hackney Bridge Kitchen, or a very short walk away you have a choice of the Door stop, The breakfast Club, Randy’s Wing Bar, Gotto Trattoria and The Lock Inn (if it is open), these are all located along East Bay Lane.  Opposite Hackney Bridge Kitchen there is also Number 90 Hackeny Wick (this is a bar/grill) also serving hot food.

After lunch we continue our walk following the River Lea, via the old Ford Lock and onto the House Mill (built in 1776, as part of the original 3 mills complex on the site), we continue via the Limehouse cut canal which leads to the River Thames.  Following the Thames path we arrive at Westferry Circus and onto Canary wharf DLR station where our walk ends.