Here we provide a round-up of where Abney Park has featured in magazine publications and in the news.
The Guardian
31st October 2021
“Abney specialises in music hall stars, but it also appears in Amy Winehouse’s video for Back to Black.”
Hackney Gazette
29th October 2021
“A book about lost poets is set to be published on Halloween will feature Stoke Newington's Abney Park Cemetery.”
Time Out
26th October 2021
“Rebels and mavericks of all kinds are buried here, and whichever winding path you take through the undergrowth you come at last to the huge gothic mortuary chapel at the centre.”
Condé Nast Traveller
24th October 2021
“This is a cemetery for the adventurous sort who likes to step off the beaten path – quite literally.”
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Metro
28 August 2021
Free things to do in London this bank holiday weekend
…Abney Park cemetery – the overgrown woods of Abney Park Cemetery are a hidden treasure near Clissold Park and Finsbury Park.
Timeout
24 August 2021
Tom Ravenscroft's perfect Sunday in Stoke Newington
…11am: Graveyard dog-spotting ‘Abney Park cemetery is a huge wooded area with paths going through it and an old dilapidated church. It’s beautiful and slightly morbid. It’s a great place to dog-spot.’…
In Your Area
14 August 2021
Fight to save England and Wales' Endangered Buildings
The Victorian Society is seeking nominations for its 2021 Top Ten Endangered Buildings Campaign to help save the country's historic heritage. … Abney Park Cemetery Chapel, Stoke Newington, North London (2014 Top Ten)
Country Life
11 August 2021
Best walks in London, from Kew Gardens and Eltham Palace to Lesnes Abbey and the ‘Cathedral of Sewage’
Our capital city is more inviting for walkers than you might expect, with meadows, towpaths, unexpected sculpture and great houses to draw the eye. Octavia Pollock sets off to explore London on foot.
Evening Standard
12 February 2021
Why London’s cemeteries are the perfect lockdown sanctuary
With parks impossibly crowded, Londoners are heading to the city’s cemeteries for their daily strolls, reports Leonie Cooper (The Escapist). Space, sanctuary and succour — they’ve got it all. Just don’t tell everyone else.
Timeout
18 January 2021
Hidden gardens and green spaces in London
The Things To Do Editors at Timeout have foraged far and wide across London to bring you the prettiest secret gardens to hide away in this year - including Abney Park, which gets listed fourth!
Prospect
06 December 2020
What cemeteries tell us about how we live now
The pandemic may have increased the demand for cemeteries, but it has also re-established their rightful role as theatres of life, as well as mourning.
Culture Whisper
19 November 2020
The loveliest winter walks in London (and where to refuel)
Looking to swap your local park for another neighbourhood’s revered green space? Holly O'Mahony round up some of the prettiest spots for winter walks in London.
Hackney Gazette
14 November 2020
Nature watch: Sheltering in a labyrinth park
Alice Bonifacio, environmental campaigner and nature writer, has been exploring Abney Park.
Stylist Magazine
6 November 2020
5 autumn walks in London to enjoy during lockdown
Walk along a former railway line from Highgate to Stoke Newington. …It follows most of the Parkland Walk (London’s longest nature reserve) along a former railway line. After that, the route passes through Finsbury Park, along by the New River. …It finishes at Abney Park Cemetery.
Stylist Magazine
24 October 2020
9 ideas for first dates in London that don’t break lockdown rules
From playing a round of outdoors crazy golf to walking around the city’s eerily beautiful cemeteries, here are some alternative first date ideas that don’t break London’s tier two lockdown rules.
Hackney Citizen
12 October 2020
Abney Park war memorial restored ahead of 80th anniversary of Coronation Avenue bombing
A memorial to local victims of the Blitz at Abney Park has been restored to its former glory ahead of the 80th anniversary of the Coronation Avenue bombing in Stoke Newington – one of the worst civilian tragedies of the Second World War.
Hackney Gazette
02 October 2020
Abney Park’s civilian war memorial restored ahead of 80th anniversary of Coronation Avenue bombing
Abney Park’s civilian war memorial has been given a professional clean ahead of the 80th anniversary of the Coronation Avenue bombing next week.
British Vogue
30 September 2020
21 Beautiful Gardens, Parks, & Courtyards To Visit In London This Autumn
Vogue rounds up 21 of the best lesser-known spots to get a nature fix in London as the temperatures drop.
Horticulture Week
30 September 2020
Abney Park Trust restores important Stoke Newington war memorial ahead of WW2 bombing's 80th anniversary
The Abney Park Trust, which fights to preserve the heritage and biodiversity of Stoke Newington’s 19th century woodland cemetery, has cleaned the Grade II listed memorial thanks to a donation from a local charity.
The Telegraph
19 September 2020
'Children aren't talking about the pandemic - it doesn't mean it's not affecting them'
Behind Lauren Child’s exuberant visual style runs a sensitivity to the unspoken worries that loom large in young lives. When Lauren Child was little, she and her family would often have picnics in graveyards and cemeteries...
Waltham Forest Echo
21 August 2020
End of the Queens Road
Council claims sinking cemetery cannot be restored, reports Victoria Munro, Local Democracy Reporter. ...Janet highlighted the Abney Park Restoration Project in Hackney and West Norwood Cemetery Conservation Project in Lambeth as examples of other councils restoring cemeteries of a similar age.
Financial Times
12 July 2020
London walks: Stoke Newington, the cool village where hipsters go to grow up
A stroll around the gentrified corner of North London that takes in cafes, green spaces and one of the capital's great Cictorian cemeteries.
The Telegraph
16 April 2020
Why I'm escaping to an atmospheric graveyard during my London lockdown
There is a place within walking distance from my home in North London to which I’ve been returning time and again since the lockdown. Most evenings, I stride past the increasingly crowded Clissold Park, up Stoke Newington Church Street, past the shuttered chic boutiques and independent restaurants. There is only one draw for me here and no, it is not Whole Foods. It’s Abney Park…