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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Hackney Downs

  

Hackney Downs Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Hackney Downs

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You can visit Hackney Downs places with Walkfo Hackney Downs to hear history at Hackney Downs’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Hackney Downs has 606 places to visit in our interactive Hackney Downs 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 Hackney Downs, 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 Hackney Downs places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Hackney Downs & the surrounding areas.

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606 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo Hackney Downs tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Hackney Downs

  

Best Hackney Downs places to visit

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

Liberty of Norton Folgate Norton Folgate was a liberty in Middlesex, England . It was adjacent to the City of London in what would become the East End of London .

Whitecross Street Prison Whitecross Street Prison was a debtors’ prison in London . It was built between 1813–15 to ease overcrowding at Newgate Prison and closed in 1870 . All of the prisoners were transferred to the newly built Holloway Prison .

Peacock Inn, Islington The Peacock Inn is a former public house at 11 Islington High Street, London, that dates from 1564 . It is located in the centre of Islington, London .

White Conduit Fields White Conduit Fields in Islington was an early venue for cricket . Several major matches are known to have been played there in the 18th century . It was the original home of the White Conduits Club, forerunner of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)

Spa Green Estate Spa Green Estate is the most complete post-war realisation of a 1930s radical plan for social regeneration through Modernist architecture . Conceived as public housing, it is now a mixed community of private owners and council tenants .

The Screen On The Green The Screen On The Green is a single screen cinema facing Islington Green in the London Borough of Islington, London . The current building was opened in 1913 and it is one of the oldest continuously running cinemas in the UK .

Northampton Square Northampton Square is in a corner of Clerkenwell projecting into Finsbury, in Central London . It is between Goswell Road and St John Street (and Spencer and Percival Streets) Fronted chiefly by main buildings of City, University of London .

King Square Gardens King Square Gardens is a park in the area of St Luke’s in the London Borough of Islington . The park is designated as a Site of Local Importance to Nature Conservation . It was used in the opening scene of the 1979 Pink Floyd song Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 .

Bishopsgate Library Bishopsgate Library is an independent, charity-funded library . It is located in the Bishops Gate Institute in the City of London .

New North Road, Islington The New North Road is 0.8 miles (1.3 km) in length and is part of the A1200 . It is a link road from the A1 at Highbury into the City of London at Moorgate .

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