The 36-hectare Mile End Park is a long, narrow series of interconnected green spaces wedged between Burdett and Grove Rds and Regent’s Canal. Landscaped to great effect during the millennium year, it incorporates a go-kart track, a skate park, an ecology area, a climbing wall and a sports stadium. The centrepiece, though, is architect Piers Gough’s plant-covered Green Bridge linking the northern and southern sections of the park over busy Mile End Rd.


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1. Ragged School Museum

0.37 MILES

Both adults and children are inevitably charmed by this combination of mock Victorian schoolroom (with hard wooden benches and desks, slates, chalk,…

2. Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park

0.37 MILES

Opened in 1841 this 13-hectare cemetery was the last of the ‘Magnificent Seven’: suburban cemeteries (including Highgate and Abney Park) created by an act…

3. Victoria Park

0.84 MILES

The ‘Regent’s Park of the East End’, this 86-hectare leafy expanse of ornamental lakes, monuments, tennis courts, flower beds and lawns was opened in 1845…

4. Trinity Green Almshouses

0.86 MILES

These poorhouses were built for injured or retired sailors in 1695. The two rows of almshouses run at right angles away from the street, facing a village…

5. St Anne’s Limehouse

0.89 MILES

Nicholas Hawksmoor’s earliest church (built 1714–27) still boasts the highest church clock in the city. In fact, the 60m-high tower was until recently a …

6. V&A Museum of Childhood

0.9 MILES

Housed in a purpose-built Victorian-era building, this branch of the Victoria & Albert Museum is aimed at both kids (with play areas, interactive exhibits…

7. William Booth Statue

0.91 MILES

A statue of the Salvation Army founder, erected near the place where he gave his first streetside sermon.

8. Blind Beggar

0.96 MILES

William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, preached his first streetside sermon outside this pub in 1865. It's also famous as the place where…