So today I walked out to the Lea Valley and the most straightforward way to get there for me is to go along Lordship Lane.
Star place along the way is Bruce Castle. It is a 17th century grade 1 listed house, which currently is a local history museum (and, really currently, a closed one!) which was formerly home of Sir Rowland Hill (founder of Royal Mail) and once was a school (and it does look like an old public school)
There is a nice park around it, with a very fine old tree (which has needed some branches propping)
It has a small garden, which is fairly imaginatively planted but of course needs to have a bit of scrap metal posing as art. This apparently needed both a designer and a sculptor, although looking at it it doesn't seem to have benefited from the work of either.
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Lordship Recreation Ground is quite extensive. It does have a little ex-boating lake now filled with geese and gulls.
Chapman's Green is a rather nice but very small parch of greenery.
And this rather splendid edifice is Wood Green Crown Court.
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