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Walthamstow

Walthamstow is a town within the London Borough of Waltham Forest in East London.

Walthamstow
Walthamstow · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Walthamstow is a town within the London Borough of Waltham Forest in East London. The town borders Chingford to the north, Snaresbrook and South Woodford to the east, Leyton and Leytonstone to the south, and Tottenham to the west. At the 2011 census, Walthamstow had a population of approximately 109,424 and is around 7.5 miles (12 km)

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Walthamstow

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.

  1. 01
    London 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.

    5.1 km · multi-purpose stadium at the London Olympic Park, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

    Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in London, England. It is owned and operated by the Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur, replacing the club's previous ground, White Hart Lane.

    3.9 km · stadium in London, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    London 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.

    3.7 km · velodrome in London, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Copper 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.

    4.4 km · sports arena in Hackney Wick, London, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Riverbank Arena

    The Riverbank Arena was a stadium in the Olympic Park, in Hackney Wick, London, United Kingdom, containing a water-based astroturf.

    3.8 km · stadium · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Water 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.

    4.8 km · arena · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    ArcelorMittal 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.

    5.1 km · sculpture and observation tower in the Olympic Park in Stratford, London · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Brisbane 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.

    2.7 km · Football Stadium in east London · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Epping Forest
  2. 02
    Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge

    6 Ranger's Road, Chingford, London E4 7QH (Within walking distance of Chingford WEA station (London Overground from Liverpool Street, Zone 5)),.

  3. 03
    Wanstead Park / The Temple

    Remaining grounds of the 18th century mansion Wanstead House, with woods and ornamental lakes.

  4. 04
    Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
  5. 05
    House Mill

    Three Mill Lane E3 3DU (Tube: Bromley-by-Bow DIS H&C ).

  6. 06
    V&A East Museum

    Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Stratford, London..

From Wikivoyage: Walthamstow, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Theatre Royal Stratford East

    Gerry Raffles Square, E15 1BN (tube: Stratford CEN JUB DLR MLD ELI ),.

  2. 02
    West Ham United

    London Stadium E20 2ST (tube: Statford / Stratford International DLR ),.

  3. 03
    ABBA Voyage

    ABBA Arena, Pudding Mill Lane, London E15 2RU (Pudding Mill Lane DLR ).

  4. 04
    ExCeL London

    1 Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Dock (DLR and rail: Custom House DLR ELI ), info@excel-london.co.uk.

  5. 05
    London Royal Docks

    Open water swimming in the docks operated by Love Open Water.

  6. 06
    Leyton Orient F.C

From Wikivoyage: Walthamstow, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

Goodmayes is a great area for really good cheap Indian/Pakistani food.

  1. 01
    The Pantry Café

    357 High St, E15 4QZ (ten seconds' walk from Stratford High Street DLR, on the same side of the road).

  2. 02
    Albina

    239 Barking Rd, Plaistow, E13 8EQ (directions: Canning Town JUB DLR ),.

  3. 03
    Kebabish

    411 Hoe St, Walthamstow, E17 9AP (tube: Walthamstow Central OGD VIC or Leyton Midland Road OGD ).

  4. 04
    Thainese

    Hoe St (turn right from Walthamstow Central),.

  5. 05
    Supperclub.tube

    South Access Road, E17 8AX (in Walthamstow Pumphouse Museum), dining@supperclub.tube.

From Wikivoyage: Walthamstow, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Walthamstow

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 33 km · London Stansted (STN), 38 km · London Luton (LTN), 40 km
Stations
Tottenham Hale station, 2.7 km · Turnpike Lane tube station, 5.7 km · Woodford tube station, 4.6 km · Blackhorse Road station, 1.4 km · Manor House tube station, 5.4 km
  • London → Walthamstow
    12 km · quickest by road, 1h 3m · £1.5–2
  • Luton, Luton → Walthamstow
    42 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £5–7
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Walthamstow
    162 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £18–23
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Walthamstow

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 Walthamstow. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inUse Woolwich Ferry then for destinations in south London.

From Wikivoyage: London/East, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    134 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    326 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    388 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    558 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    593 km

If you know how people move in Walthamstow – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Walthamstow

Walthamstow is 8 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.