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East Wickham
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Days out & attractions in East Wickham
Days out around East Wickham – lakes, hills, nature reserves, museums and more, including 1 in East Wickham itself. Each comes with a description, photo, address and map where available.
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🏞️ Lakes & lochs
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⛰️ Hills & peaks
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🌿 Nature reserves
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🏛️ Museums
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🌳 Parks & gardens
Winns Common
Plumstead · 1.2 miles
Set within the suburb of Plumstead in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, Winn's Common provides a public open space that has been shaped by centuries of human activity. Archaeological evidence points to settlement by ancient Britons, and the area once contained several Bronze Age burial mounds together with Roman artefacts; a surviving tumulus, known as the Winn's Common Tumulus, remains visible today. During the Second World War the common hosted a line of barrage balloons intended to protect the nearby Royal Arsenal at Woolwich from aerial attack. Across Kings Highway a memorial to George Webb, former headmaster of Burrage Grove Boys School in 1896, marks the site of a former drinking fountain whose fittings have since been removed. After the war, prefabricated houses were erected on the common to accommodate displaced residents; these structures were cleared in the late 1950s and the land was replanted as open ground with football pitches. An old hut at the north end, adjacent to Kings Highway, continues to serve as a changing-room facility, equipped with a tin trough and cold taps. Access to Winn's Common is unrestricted, and visitors can make use of the pitches and the modest changing amenities.
Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
Eaglesfield Park
Shooter's Hill · 1.9 miles
Situated close to the summit of Shooter’s Hill, just south of Woolwich, Eaglesfield Park occupies a green space within the Royal Borough of Greenwich in south-east London. The site is split by Eaglesfield Road into two distinct areas. To the west, the ground is formally landscaped, featuring an ornamental pond that has been restored, and a children’s playground that occupies the former splash-pool location. The eastern half opens onto a grassland meadow that borders a golf course, offering open views across the surrounding hills. Walkers can follow the Green Chain Walk as it weaves through the western part of the park. The land was acquired by Woolwich Metropolitan Borough Council in 1907, with half of the purchase price supplied by London City Council. Landscape architect J. J. Sexby, then chief officer of parks for the LCC, designed the layout and the park opened the following year. Sexby’s plan included improvements to the existing pond, which fell into disuse before being reinstated in 2012. The name “Eaglesfield” may reference the eagles shown on the 18th-century landowner John Lidgebird’s coat of arms, or the medieval reputation of Shooter’s Hill as a roost for eagles. As a public park, the area is freely accessible and provides basic amenities such as the playground and walking routes.
Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
Plumstead Common
Plumstead · 1.9 miles
Plumstead Common provides a sizeable green space within the Royal Borough of Greenwich, positioned just south of the town of Plumstead. The park is bounded to the north by Old Mill Road, to the south by Plumstead Common Road and abuts Winn’s Common on its eastern side. Within its grounds, deposits of puddingstone – a conglomerate rock formed around 60 million years ago during a warm period – can be observed, a geological feature otherwise more typical of Hertfordshire. The site also incorporates the remains of an old mill, now part of a public house that bears the same name, and the former Prince of Wales pub stands on the south-west corner, while Plumstead Manor School lies nearby. First recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as “Plumstede”, the area originally referred to a place where plums grew. Throughout the nineteenth century, increasing pressure from housing development linked to the Royal Arsenal led to the sale of common land, prompting local protests in 1876 that culminated in the Plumstead Common Act of 1878, which secured one hundred acres as permanent public open space. The common also hosted the early matches of Royal Arsenal Football Club. Today, it serves as the venue for community events such as the Plumstead Make Merry festival – noted as the longest-running local festival in the borough – and the popular Asian Mela, often likened to an “Asian Notting Hill Carnival”. Access is via the surrounding roads, and as a public park it remains freely available for recreation and sport.
Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
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🗿 Monuments & memorials
Boer War Memorial
Woolwich · 2.5 miles
The Boer War Memorial in Woolwich is opposite the Royal Artillery Barracks on Grand Depot Road in Woolwich. The memorial marks the deaths of the 18 soldiers of the 61st Battery Royal Field Artillery who died in the Second Boer War. The memorial is a tall thin pink granite obelisk on a square plinth with a three-step base.
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🏺 Archaeological sites
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📸 Landmarks & sights
Woodlands Farm
Shooter's Hill · 1.2 miles
The 89-acre Woodlands urban farm lies on the east side of Shooter’s Hill in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, southeast London, just north of the A207. It sits roughly two kilometres south of Plumstead and one and a half kilometres west of Welling, forming part of a protected green corridor that links Eltham, Plumstead and Welling. A small watercourse, the Wogebourne, runs northward across the fields and is fed by several tributaries, adding a natural feature to the landscape. The site borders the Greenwich Equestrian Skills Centre, a legacy of the London Olympic Games, and is managed by the Woodlands Farm Trust, a registered charity. Originally laid out in the early nineteenth century as a 122-acre farm under the Baldock family, the land was bought in 1919 by the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society and later operated as a model pig farm. During the Second World War it served briefly as a prisoner-of-war camp. Threatened in the 1980s by a proposed East London River Crossing, the farm was saved after a European-wide campaign and, in 1997, the Co-operative Group granted the Trust a 999-year lease at a peppercorn rent. Today the farm concentrates on conservation, sustainable agriculture and educational activities, hosting regular farm shows and an education centre that welcomes school groups and other visitors. Entry is free and opening times are published on the farm’s listing.
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Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
Hall Place and Gardens
Braeburn Park · 2.5 miles
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Data: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Distances are as the crow flies from East Wickham.
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