Roding River Adventure Part 1 

Meet at 11am Redbridge Tube. Part 1 of this walk ends at 1pm Ilford Station

The Walk led by London National Park City Rangers heads along the public River Roding path through Wanstead to Manor Park and finishes at Ilford Station (Ilford Hill exit).

This is a two part walk which will take you on a journey that is surprisingly rural along one of London’s most stunning rivers. 

The River Roding path, also known as the Roding Valley Way, is a walk and cycle route following the River Roding

The river flows south, passing through several towns and villages in Essex and East London, including: 

Redbridge: The path starts at Redbridge, a suburban station on the Central line. 

Wanstead Park: The path goes through Wanstead Park, a large park with various features like a Heron pond, an Ornamental canal, and the Chestnut Trail. 

Ilford & Woodford: The path continues through Ilford and Woodford, passing by the Roding Valley Meadows nature reserve. 

Roding River Adventure Part 2 -The Camera Obscura

This walk starts at 1pm Ilford Station and finishes at 3pm East Ham tube

See Roding River Adventure Part 1 for the first part of our River Roding Adventure. 

We’ll start by Ilford bridge and exit on the path under the north circular at Little Ilford.

Towards the end of the second walk, artist and educator, Andrew Brown will be building a camera obscura on one of the concrete plinths and will have other alternative photography activities for people to do.

The Roding River Trust

The Friends of the River Roding was formed in the summer of 2017 as a community-led effort to restore the River Roding, with particular focus on the lower reaches around Barking and Ilford. In the summer of 2019, they became a registered charity in the form of the River Roding Trust.

The objects of the River Roding Trust are to preserve, protect and restore the River Roding for the public benefit and to undertake and carry on projects and activities of a charitable nature related to the river which will assist in promoting recreation, protecting the environment and educating the public about the history of the river.