Long ago, outside a chip shop in
Walthamstow (sorry, I couldn’t stop myself), stood the “Ancient House”, dating
to the fifteenth century. Miraculously,
it stands there still, in the secluded
enclave of Walthamstow Village, alongside the church of St Mary,
originally built in the twelfth century (although much modified subsequently),
and the Monoux alms-houses, originally built in the sixteenth.
From there it’s a very
varied and interesting three-hour walk
to the City, by way of Walthamstow and Hackney Marshes, the Lea River, Hackney
Wick, Victoria Park, Bethnal Green and Shoreditch (using the Shard for
orientation).
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