We're sorry to let you know that Abney Park Trust's Spring Birdsong walk in April is cancelled due to Covid 19 measures. We hope to hold the walk at a later date. We hope you'll be able to come then, and that you keep well in the meantime. Ticket holders will be refunded through EventBrite.
We're sorry to let you know that Abney Park Trust's Dawn Chorus walk in April is cancelled due to Covid 19 measures. We hope to hold the walk at a later date. We hope you'll be able to come then, and that you keep well in the meantime. Ticket holders will be refunded through EventBrite.
We're sorry to let you know that Abney Park Trust's History Tour in April is cancelled due to Covid 19 measures.We hope to hold the next tour on the first Sunday of the month in the near future. We hope you'll be able to come then, and that you keep well in the meantime.
Come and enjoy a relaxing and entertaining stroll around 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
Abney Park Cemetery has many memorials and momentos of World War One. The tour will talk about the forgotten air raids , the story of the Old Contemptibles and the Angel of Mons, rediscovered graves and other tales of 1914 -18. This compelling tour is led by historian Alan Gartrell.
Free, suggested £5 donation welcome
Meet at the main gates, Stoke Newington High St
For International Women’s Day, the Doyennes of Death pay homage to the cemetery’s fierce female mould breakers, risk takers and pioneers whose stories are both awe inspiring and poignant. Context is everything (especially with history) and this tour will examine the often adverse social, political and economic circumstances faced by the Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian Women of Abney Park. Celebrate and commemorate these wonderful women in the contemplative setting of Abney Park Cemetery, one of London’s most unique and hidden gems. This inspiring and informative guided tour is delivered by historian Sam Perrin.
Tickets: £12 / £10 concs
Book here
Come and enjoy a relaxing and entertaining stroll around 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.
Take an after-dark historical tour of the sinister side of 19th Century London as we go back in time to the Gothic novel era, exploring the heart of Victorian darkness... What's the connection to the radical history of Abney Park and the rich rebel heritage of Hackney? Hosted by local guide, writer and storyteller Hackney Tours (as seen at Stokey Lit Fest etc), this adventure will help you see Abney Park and Hackney in a different way, and possibly even the contemporary psychic landscape.
Tickets: £12 - Book here
Come and enjoy a relaxing stroll around 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.
110 years ago in January 1909 a payroll robbery in Tottenham led to a frantic pursuit of Latvian anarchists over the Lea River marshes. Four people died including PC. William Tyler, who lies buried in Abney Park under one of it’s finest monuments. Led by Alan Gartrell, this tour will tell the story of the 'Tottenham Outrage', also that of P.C Alfred Smith and others killed in the line of duty.
Free, suggested £5 donation welcome
Meet at the main gates, Stoke Newington High St
Come and enjoy a relaxing stroll around 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.
On 18,19th & 20th of December 1817 William Hone, antiquarian, bookseller and journalist was tried for Blasphemous Libel at the London Guildhall. This had been the site for famous treason trials and the charges were a cloak for political repression and an attack on the freedom of the Press. Defying the instructions of the Lord Chief Justice, the Juries acquitted Hone each day. Come to his grave side (Charles Dickens attended the funeral) and hear this amazing story which has caught the attention of Ian Hislop and campaigners over the last 200 years. This tour is led by Alan Gartrell.
Come and enjoy a relaxing stroll around 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.
There are almost 400 Commonwealth War Graves at Abney Park commemorating the dead of World Wars I & II. This tour will address the history of war burials and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, stories of the graves and individuals together with some of the unusual memorials of other conflicts, including the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and the American Civil War. This informative tour is led by Alan Gartrell.
CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER WARNINGS
Come and enjoy a relaxing stroll around 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.
Celebrate Allhallowtide at Abney Park with cemetery guide @misssamperrin as we pay our respects to the Cemetery’s most mysterious and magical ‘permanent residents’, followed by a talk on the origins of Halloween, dark Victoriana and the birthplace of modern literary horror.
Tickets: £13 / £10 concs
Buy tickets here
As a part of Black History Month, everyone is invited to a heritage walk to the resting place of Joanna Vassa, wife of Henry Bromley, and daughter of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African, best-selling author and abolitionist. The event also celebrates the 230th anniversary of his book, The Interesting Narrative, which was published in 1789, and which is included in the top 100 non-fiction books of all times (The Guardian Newspaper, 31st December 2017). Arthur Torrington is Director of The Equiano Society.
Free, All Welcome
Please reserve your place here to ensure you are able to attend.
Meet at the main gates, Stoke Newington High St
Take an after-dark historical tour of the sinister side of Victorian London going back in time to the era of the Gothic novel, and the heart of Dickensian darkness.
Hosted by local guide, writer and storyteller Hackney Tours, this adventure will help you see Abney Park - and London - in a different way.
Come and enjoy a relaxing stroll around 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.
1840, the year that Abney Park Cemetery opened was also the year of the great World Anti-slavery Convention which several Stoke Newington residents attended. Join Alan Gartrell to find out about them and other politicians, missionaries and campaigners who fought against slavery.
Free,
Suggested £5 donation welcome
Meet at the main gates, Stoke Newington High Street.
Please wear sturdy shoes
Trafalgar, Balaclava, the Streets of London. Soldiers, Abolitionists, nurses and policemen. What is heroism? A walk around the Cemetery will discuss these issues and tell some of the stories. This enlightening tour is led by Alan Gartrell.
Free, suggested £5 donation welcome
Meet at the main gates,
Stoke Newington High St
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.
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
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.
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.
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
