Visit Forest Gate Places

Welcome to Visit Forest Gate Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Forest Gate

  

Forest Gate Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Forest Gate

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Forest Gate history

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The first known record of the name ‘Forest Gate’ comes from the West Ham parish registers of the late 17th century. The gate was placed across the modern Woodford Road to prevent cattle straying from the open Wanstead Flats area of Epping Forest onto the main Roman road (Romford road) linking Camulodunum to Londinium.

You can visit Forest Gate places with Walkfo Forest Gate to hear history at Forest Gate’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Forest Gate has 264 places to visit in our interactive Forest Gate map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Forest Gate, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Forest Gate places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Forest Gate & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 264 audio facts unique to Forest Gate places in an interactive Forest Gate map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Forest Gate Places Map
264 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Forest Gate historic spots	Forest Gate tourist destinations	Forest Gate plaques	Forest Gate geographic features
Walkfo Forest Gate tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Forest Gate

  

Best Forest Gate places to visit

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Forest Gate has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Forest Gate’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Forest Gate’s information audio spots:

Hackney Wick Hackney Wick lies 4.2 miles (6.8 km) northeast of Charing Cross. Adjacent areas of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets are sometimes also described as being part of Hackney.

Bushwood, Leytonstone Bushwood is an area in the north of Leytonstone in East London. The area is popular for its proximity to Wanstead Flats and Wanstead Park. It has many tree-lined streets with Victorian and Edwardian houses.

East Village, London East Village is a housing development in Stratford, East London that was designed and constructed as the Olympic Village of the 2012 Summer Olympics. The area was formerly contaminated waste land and industrial buildings to the north of Stratford town centre.

Upton Park, London Upton Park is an area of the East London borough of Newham, centred on Green Street which is the boundary between West Ham and East Ham. West Ham United Football Club formerly played at the Boleyn Ground, commonly known as Upton Park.

St Francis of Assisi Church, Stratford St Francis of Assisi Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Stratford, London. It was founded from a mission that started in 1770. The Franciscan Order of Friars Minor arrived in 1873 and built a friary next door to the church in 1876.

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