Where is hackney marshes

In , following a number of unauthorised events at Hackney Marshes that caused disruption to nearby residents, damage to wildlife and put people at risk from coronavirus, we successfully sought an interim injunction, coupled with a power of arrest, to prevent them while we explored longer-term options.

On 13 May , the injunction order was discharged by the High Court following a request by the Council. Further details can be found in the sealed order and notice 13 May :. Hackney Marshes is internationally known as the spiritual home of Sunday league football, with 82 football, rugby and cricket pitches on North and South Marsh and Mabley Green.

For more information please contact us or visit Better — Hackney Marshes Centre. The park holds a Green Flag award. The awards are given to the best green spaces in the country and are awarded each year to make sure the quality of the green space remains high. Peak times are evenings and weekends. For a full list of sports pitch prices across the borough call , email hackney.

Sports pitch bookings are managed by Better. To book pitches call , email hackney. Call us. Activity prices. Email us. Conference and Meeting Rooms. Bar and Roof Terrace. Gainsborough Playing Fields. Disabled toilet.

The marshes had always suffered periodic flooding from the Lea but with the introduction of mains sewerage, a flood relief sewer was constructed beneath the marshes. Most common and Lammas lands were then preserved by an Act of Parliament and passed to the control of the Metropolitan Board of Works, but the marsh remained excluded from the MBW scheme because many of the lammas rights were still exercised, predominantly grazing.

This was a period of increasing arguments between landowners eager to build, and groups seeking to preserve the open spaces for recreation. The marshes were opened to the public in and were formally dedicated in The Eton Manor Mission was founded in to bring education to the poor of the East End and to teach boys of Eton College some understanding of the poor.

On aspect of this peculiar meeting of opposites was through sport on the Hackney Marshes, including running, boxing. A football club, Eton Manor FC, was founded here.

There were few houses on the marshes, but a notable exception was the White House Inn, by a bridge on the old road to Leyton. Originally built as part of a Lea fishery scheme, the pub is now long gone but a bridge remains, rebuilt to supply anti-aircraft batteries during the Second World War.

Small areas of the marsh have been taken for housing and sports fields and others added. In , A further Show more.

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