London Borough of Waltham Forest
The London Borough of Waltham Forest is an outer London borough formed in 1965 from the merger of the Essex municipal boroughs of Leyton, Walthamstow and Chingford.
The London Borough of Waltham Forest is an outer London borough formed in 1965 from the merger of the Essex municipal boroughs of Leyton, Walthamstow and Chingford.
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Worth seeing in and around London Borough of Waltham Forest
8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01London Stadium
London Stadium is a multi-purpose outdoor stadium at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in the Stratford district of London. It is located in the Lower Lea Valley, 6 miles east of central London.
3.3 km · multi-purpose stadium at the London Olympic Park, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02London Velopark
Lee Valley VeloPark is a cycling centre in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London, England. It is owned and managed by Lee Valley Regional Park Authority, and it was opened to the public in March 2014.
2.2 km · velodrome in London, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Copper Box Arena
The Copper Box Arena is a multi-sport venue built for the 2012 Summer Olympics, located in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, England. Previously known as the Handball Arena, it was renamed because, aside from handball, it hosted modern pentathlon during the Olympics and was the goalball venue for the 2012 Summer Paralympics.
2.6 km · sports arena in Hackney Wick, London, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Riverbank Arena
The Riverbank Arena was a stadium in the Olympic Park, in Hackney Wick, London, United Kingdom, containing a water-based astroturf.
2.1 km · stadium · Wikipedia - 05Water Polo Arena
The Water Polo Arena was a temporary sporting venue of the 2012 Summer Olympics held in London from 27 July to 12 August 2012. It was situated in the south-east corner of the Olympic Park, alongside the Aquatics Centre, and opposite the Olympic Stadium on the opposite bank of the Waterworks River.
3.2 km · arena · Wikipedia - 06ArcelorMittal Orbit
The ArcelorMittal Orbit is a 114.5-metre sculpture and observation tower in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London. It is Britain's largest piece of public art, and is intended to be a permanent lasting legacy of London's hosting of the 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, assisting in the post-Olympics regeneration of the Stratford area.
3.4 km · sculpture and observation tower in the Olympic Park in Stratford, London · Wikipedia - 07Brisbane Road
Brisbane Road, currently known as the BetWright Stadium for sponsorship reasons and originally known as Osborne Road, is a football stadium in Leyton, East London, England. It has been the home ground of Leyton Orient since 1937, before which it was the home of amateur football team Leyton, who moved to the Hare and Hounds ground.
1.6 km · Football Stadium in east London · Wikipedia - 08Victoria Park
Victoria Park is a park in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London, England. It is the largest park in Tower Hamlets and one of London's most visited green spaces, with approximately 9 million visitors each year.
3.3 km · urban park majority in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and small part in Hackney, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to London Borough of Waltham Forest
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 31 km · London Stansted (STN), 40 km · London Luton (LTN), 41 km
- Stations
- Tottenham Hale station, 3.1 km · Blackhorse Road station, 2.3 km · Walthamstow Central station, 2 km · Leyton tube station, 2.2 km · Leytonstone tube station, 2.9 km
- London → London Borough of Waltham Forest12 km · quickest by road, 1h 2m · £1.5–2.5
- Luton, Luton → London Borough of Waltham Forest42 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £5–7
- Birmingham, West Midlands → London Borough of Waltham Forest162 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £17–23
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No local-transport research exists yet for London Borough of Waltham Forest
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for London Borough of Waltham Forest. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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- Get inSouthern from the South East including Gatwick Airport (), Bognor Regis, Epsom and Portsmouth with ferries from and ().
- Get inAlso from Harwich (via A120, ferries from Hook of Holland, Netherlands).
- Get inFastest route from Fishguard (ferries from Rosslare, Ireland).
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Next door to London Borough of Waltham Forest
London Borough of Waltham Forest is 6 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- London Borough of Hackneyborough in the London Region in England3 km
- Stratforddistrict of the London Borough of Newham in East London, England3.4 km
- Stratford railway stationmajor multi-level station serving the district of Stratford in the London Borough of Newham; interchange with the tube/DLR station of the same name3.5 km
- Stoke Newingtonarea in the London Borough of Hackney, England, UK3.6 km
- Leytondistrict of the London Borough of Waltham Forest1.4 km
- Walthamstowdistrict of the London Borough of Waltham Forest in North East London, England2.1 km