Welcome to Visit Hackney Downs Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Hackney Downs


Visit Hackney Downs PlacesVisit Hackney Downs places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Hackney Downs places to visit. A unique way to experience Hackney Downs’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Hackney Downs as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.

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Hackney Downs is a park and area of historically common land in the Lower Clapton area of the London Borough of Hackney. The name is sometimes also used to apply to the neighbourhood around the park. When you visit Hackney Downs, Walkfo brings Hackney Downs places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

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


Visit Hackney Downs – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit

With 606 audio plaques & Hackney Downs places for you to explore in the Hackney Downs area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Hackney Downs places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

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Visit Hackney Downs PlacesYou 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.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 606 audio facts unique to Hackney Downs places in an interactive Hackney Downs map you can explore.”

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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


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:

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

Visit Hackney Downs plaques


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Hackney Downs has 174 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Hackney Downs plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit Hackney Downs using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Hackney Downs plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.