Walking Tour - The River Lea Part Seven - Cheshunt to Enfield

The Seventh of a series walks along the River Lea, which takes the Lea past the Royal Gunpowder Mills and the home of the Lee Enfield rifle

The River Lea is one of the longest, and most important tributaries of the Thames - taking a 42 mile journey from Bedfordshire to join the Thames at Bow Creek in East London. The Lea has formed the boundary between Saxon's and Danes, been home to medieval mills, London's furniture industry and flows through the Olympic Park. This series of walks will look at the history of the River Lea, tracing its course on its way to the Thames.
Meet up at Cheshunt station for a walk into the Lea Valley Park - a scheme thought up as part of the Greater London Plan of 1944 to create more leisure space for London. We will be following the River Lea into London on this walk. Our route also takes in sites once important for the military , so we will pass the sites of the Royal Gunpowder Mills and the Royal Small Arms Factory where the famous Lee Enfield rifle was designed
The walk is about 4 miles in total and finishes at Enfield Lock Station.

You may also like the following events from Footprints of London:

• This Saturday, 9th August, 02:00 pm, Walking Tour - Pepys, Pubs, Graves and a Grotto (with pub stop) in London
• Next Friday, 15th August, 01:00 pm, Walking Tour - London's Sex Industry and the Stage in the Long 18th Century in London
• This month, 23rd August, 01:00 pm, Walking Tour - Working-class Migrations: Irish, Italian, African, Jewish in London

Also check out other Workshops in Cheshunt, Meetups in Cheshunt.