Book your private tour of this historic Stoke Newington cemetery and nature reserve today
These tours allow heritage and biodiversity organisations, history societies, informal groups of people and more to explore the 182-year-old Magnificent Seven site.
Abney Park is a Grade II listed public space with many significant features. It is also Hackney’s first designated Local Nature Reserve and home to a unique ecology, exceptionally rare in urban environments.
In autumn this year the park will undergo significant works to rebuild amenities in the park and restore the Grade II listed chapel. With interest in the park going up, this is a unique opportunity to visit and learn about the changes – which will preserve and restore the Park without undermining its charm and distinctive heritage.
Tours will be led by one of the Trust’s experienced, knowledgeable team. Tours will be exclusive.
If tour groups would like to visit a particular grave or ecological item, the tour leader will do their best to locate it and incorporate it in the tour.
The tour will end with an opportunity for your group to discuss the tour and ask follow-up questions of our expert guide.
Image: Fred Adams
Explore the park with the help of a guide
Bookings are open to any formal or informal group or organisation. Groups can enquire by emailing info@abneypark.org.
A donation of £10 per person will be charged, with a minimum donation of £50. Groups of over 20 can benefit from a flat rate of £200.
Proceeds will be reinvested into the Abney Park Trust’s vital work in preserving and advocating for this precious historic site through grave maintenance and restoration work, archive management, events and community engagement and much more.
Tours can take place in the morning, afternoon or evening (during summer opening times). All tours will take place within Covid safety guidelines.
Discover the park’s unorthodox history
Abney Park is grounded in Nonconformist and dissenting heritage.
The bespoke private tours will take in the graves of some of the leading radicals and Nonconformists of the last two centuries – including Chartist leader Bronterre O’Brien, Salvation Army founder William Booth and prominent Abolitionist names like Joanna Vassa and Rev. James Sherman.
Tour groups will also visit the memorials of Abney’s public servants and local heroes – including those of pioneering nurse Betsi Cadwaladr, father of modern firefighting James Braidwood; and the inspirational blind teacher Harriet Delph.
And groups will also visit the Park’s Grade II listed historic chapel, which is the oldest surviving non-denominational chapel in Europe – and which is known for its distinctive architecture and also features in Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black music video in 2007.