(Photo: Colin Wing)
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Open:
Saturday 11:00–17:00
+ Sunday 11:00–17:00
Description:
Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park (known locally as Bow Cemetery) is a historic cemetery located in London's East End. It opened in 1841 by an Act of Parliament and is one of London's ‘Magnificent Seven’ cemeteries. The cemetery closed to burials in 1966 and became Tower Hamlets’ first Local Nature Reserve in 2001. Nearby land was added in the mid-1990s, known as Scrap Yard Meadow and Ackroyd Drive Green Link.
Today there are 33 acres of managed mature broadleaved woodland and meadow. Victorian monuments are romantically set amongst wildflowers, grasses and trees. It is also an educational resource to over 7,000 school children every academic year who use the park as an outdoor classroom.
The Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park was set up in 1990. We have a Constitution, the main objectives of which are to encourage greater use of this inner urban green space as a sanctuary for people and a place of biodiversity, while protecting and preserving the historic content.
Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park Liaison Officer:
Kenneth Greenway
Activities:
Guided walks on history and nature.
Basic refreshments.
Information stalls.
Self-guided scavenger hunt (history and nature).
Launch of
Ship to Shore, a booklet including vignettes of a small but representative selection of the many people with connections to the sea or River Thames who are buried or commemorated in THCP.
Saturday 2pm
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Entrance:
Southern Grove
Nearest postcode: E3 4PX
Sells tickets.
Buses:
D6, D7,D8, 25, 205, 277, 323, 339, 425
Station:
Mile End
Access:
Main path is limestone with one small incline. Side paths are narrower and vary in surface.
Dogs:
Dogs on leads
Further information:
Nearby Gardens (click on names for details):
Last updated: 03/06/2010