Come and enjoy one of London's most intriguing Victorian garden cemeteries and unique urban nature reserves. Learn about Abney Park's rich history, about some of the characters laid to rest here and about the diverse flora and fauna. This is an extremely informative tour, led by cemetery guide Sam Perrin.

Free, Suggested £5 donation welcome

Meet at the main gates on Stoke Newington High Street. Please wear sturdy shoes.

Join Katharine Blake and Charlie Cawood in Abney Park's chapel for an evening of folk music with violin and recorder in the centre of our beautiful cemetery. Katharine and Charlie will be performing mediaeval and folk music as a duo, and will also be joined by special guest Anna Pool from Mediaeval Baebes to perform songs from the Baebe’s new album ‘A Pocketful of Posies’, a psychadelic folk adventure through the surreal and often terrifying world of nursery rhymes.

Tickets: £12 / £10 concs
Buy tickets here

Geographer and urban ecologist Matthew Gandy will lead a walk through one of London's most interesting biodiversity hot-spots, focusing in particular on butterflies, moths, and other insects.

Free, suggested £5 donation welcome
Meet at the main gates,
Stoke Newington High St

We thought midsummer's eve would be a great time to get together to catch up on APUG (Abney Park User Group). Find out about new Abney developments and what's happening with the NLHF bid for improvements and changes to the buildings in Abney Park.

Free, All welcome
Refreshments provided. 

In the classroom, on the right inside the main gates
Stoke newington High st entrance

Why is Abney unique in the Magnificent Seven in not having an Act of Parliament and being entirely unconsecrated? Who were the people who started this non-conformist Victorian garden cemetery and what is its history? Join historical pundit Alan Gartrell to learn of Abney’s fascinating beginnings.

Free, suggested £5 donation welcome
Meet at the Stoke Newington High St gates

Come to enjoy and learn the songs of the spring birds that populate the urban nature reserve Abney Park.
Led by birding leader Andrew Peel of the RSPB and Marylebone Birdwatching Society.

Tickets: £5 / £3 concessions
Buy tickets here

Come and enjoy exclusive early morning access to Abney Park on our dawn chorus walk, listening to the beautiful song of the nature reserve's early birds! Led by bird expert Andrew Peel, of the RSPB and Marylebone Birdwatching Society.

Meet at Stoke Newington High St gates by 5.25am for 5.30am prompt start.
Please don't be late - the gates will be locked.

Tickets £5 /£3 concessions
Buy tickets here

Come and enjoy one of London's most intriguing Victorian garden cemeteries and unique urban nature reserves. Learn about Abney Park's rich history, about some of the characters laid to rest here and about the diverse flora and fauna. This is an extremely informative tour, led by cemetery guide Sam Perrin.

Free, Suggested £5 donation welcome

Meet at the main gates on Stoke Newington High Street. Please wear sturdy shoes.

Dr Bernard Regan, writer and campaigner, will give this year’s Bronterre O'Brien address at the grave of radical Victorian politician, O'Brien, in the evocative surroundings of Abney Park cemetery. James 'Bronterre' O'Brien fought, as a Chartist, for a free, untaxed press, universal suffrage and parliamentary reform in the 19th century. His radical politics brought him to the attention of the authorities and in 1840 he was charged with sedition and jailed for 18 months.

This is a free event; donations for Abney Park will be welcome.  
Meet at the main gates Stoke Newington High St at 10.45 am
All welcome.

Abney Park is looking forward to hosting their annual Spring Fayre on Saturday 11th May. Come along and enjoy a variety of arts and crafts stalls, second-hand books, tempting food and drinks for all, arts & plant workshops, kids activities and music in the chapel. Plus - many fabulous prizes to be won on the Abney Park User Group tombola! Proceeds raised will help fund future activities and projects at Abney Park.

Come and enjoy one of London's most intriguing Victorian cemeteries and unique urban nature reserves. Learn about Abney Park's rich history, about some of the characters laid to rest here and about its diverse flora and fauna. This is an extremely informative tour.

Free, Suggested £5 donation welcome

Meet at the main gates on Stoke Newington High Street. Please wear sturdy shoes

A guided walk through Abney Park Nature Reserve with local ecologist and tree expert Russell Miller.

On this evening walk Russell will discuss how Abney's current woodland relates to earlier landscapes and why it is now a nature reserve of national importance for decaying wood habitat.

Free, suggested £5 donation welcome
Meet at ther main gates,
Stoke Newington High St

A guided walk looking for some of Abney's 40 species of native bee.

Local ecologist Russell Miller will be explaining how to identify common bee species and inviting people to join in the hunt for Abney's rarest bee, the Red-Girdled Mining Bee.

Free, £5 donation welcome
Meet at the main gates,
Stoke Newington High St

Join Alan Gartrell for a tour to learn about the Salvation Army connection with Abney Park. Why are General William Booth and 'the Mother of the Army' Catherine Booth buried at Abney? Find out about the many extraordinary characters who started the Salvation Army, the fight against slavery and the ill-treatment of children, the crisis of 1929 and the brave men and women who took the Army to India and Korea.

Meet at the main gates, Stoke Newington High St.

Spring is in the air and we don't want the rubbish to spoil our enjoyment of the Park, so do come and join us if you can. It's a splendid and much appreciated thing to do and a nice way to meet new people.

We'll provide you with everything you need (bags, gloves, litter-pickers) but wear sturdy shoes. If you can't make it this time, then the second Saturday of any month is our regular date. Get in touch if you have any queries. Meet at the main gates on Stoke Newington High Street.

Every 2nd Saturday of the month - add it to your diary!

Come for a relaxing and entertaining stroll around one of London's most intriguing Victorian cemeteries and unique urban nature reserves. Learn about Abney Park's rich history, about some of the characters laid to rest here and about its diverse flora and fauna. This is an extremely informative tour.

Free, Suggested £5 donation welcome

Meet at the main gates on Stoke Newington High Street. Please wear sturdy shoes

Join your guides, Romany and Sam (aka 'Doyennes of Death'), as we pay homage to the fearless women interred in Abney Park – pioneers who ripped up the rule books and whose stories are inspiring, surprising, and poignant.

Tickets are £12 (£10 concessions) - Book now

Meet at main Egyptian Gates entrance on Stoke Newington High Street at 1:50pm Saturday 9 March. Wear suitable footwear and please be aware of uneven paths.

Spring is in the air and we don't want the rubbish to spoil our enjoyment of the Park, so do come and join us if you can. It's a splendid and much appreciated thing to do and a nice way to meet new people.

We'll provide you with everything you need (bags, gloves, litterpickers) but wear sturdy shoes. If you can't make it this time, then the second Saturday of any month is our regular date. Get in touch if you have any queries. Meet at the main gates on Stoke Newington High Street.

Every 2nd Saturday of the month - add it to your diary!

Come for a relaxing and entertaining stroll around one of London's most intriguing Victorian cemeteries and unique urban nature reserves. Learn about Abney Park's rich history, about some of the characters laid to rest here and about its diverse flora and fauna. This is an extremely informative tour.

Free, Suggested £5 donation welcome

Meet at the main gates pn Stoke Newington High Street. Please wear sturdy shoes

Join Alan Gartrell for a guided tour to learn about Hackney's very first MP, the philanthropist who saved the Old Vic, the 'apostle of peace' and precursor of the League of Nations and the Fenian who tried to storm Chester Castle. Come and hear the stories of the four MPs buried in Abney and how they fit into Abney's radical heritage.

Suggested £5 donation welcome 
Meet at the main gates on Stoke Newington High Street

Come for a relaxing and entertaining stroll through wintry trees around one of London's most intriguing Victorian cemeteries and unique urban nature reserves. Learn about Abney Park's rich history, about some of the characters laid to rest here and about its diverse flora and fauna. This is an extremely informative tour.

Free, Suggested £5 donation welcome

Meet at the main gates pn Stoke Newington High Street

Please wear sturdy shoes

Join John Baldock for an after dark tour of Abney Park to learn more of its hidden secrets such as - a notorious hangman of whom Charles Dickens once quoted “Mr. William Calcraft, the finisher of the law". Learn also of the 'The Mysterious Lady', 'The Celebrated Enchantress' and the daughter of the 'Wizard of the South', as well as a hidden catacomb, and the stories of those in common graves.

Tickets £10 - Book here

Entry at the main gates on Stoke Newington High Street from 6.35 to 6.55pm (Please note - latecomers will not be admitted)

There are many missionaries buried in Abney Park who went to all corners of the world. Their stories include cannibalism in the South Seas, the 'Baptist Wars' in Jamaica and other struggles for emancipation throughout the world. In the Cemetery lie the man who took the Salvation Army to India and was arrested for it and the Jamaican slave who became a missionary in Africa. Join Alan Gartrell on a fascinating tour to learn more.

Come and learn all about Abney's amazing collection of trees – some ancient, some rare, some unique. Discover the vital role they play in supporting a wide variety of other plants and animals, and have created a valuable green oasis in the middle of the city. Russell Miller, of the Tree Musketeers, will be leading this very popular annual guided Tree Walk.

Meet at the main gates on Stoke Newington High Street

Free, Suggested £5 donation welcome

Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Hackney Council, the Abney Unearthed project has now run for two years. Join us on a tour to hear about some of the people and monuments uncovered and researched by the team of volunteers, as well as the progress made to date. Display boards will also be exhibited.

Free tour - Donations to Abney Park welcome

Meet at the main gates on Stoke Newington High Street.

Join us to hear three local choirs will sing a selection of music with a wintry theme, including festive favourites with a folky twist, traditional songs, pop songs, modern compositions for the choir - showcasing all the best (and possibly even the worst) that winter has to offer. At the end we'll hand out lyric sheets and invite the audience to join in.

Abney Park Chapel

Free, Donations welcome

Winter, though warmish, is definitely on its way. There's less of it around but we still don't want the rubbish to spoil our enjoyment of the Park, so do come and join us if you can. It's a splendid and much appreciated thing to do and a nice way to meet new people.

We'll provide you with everything you need (bags, gloves, litterpickers) but wear sturdy shoes. Whatever the weather (barring pouring rain), here's hoping to see you on 8th December at 10am and if you can't make it this time, then the second Saturday of any month is our regular date. Get in touch if you have any queries. Meet at the main gates on Stoke Newington High Street.