Langthorne Park was awarded green flag status in 2007 in recognition of the high standards of the park. The park retained its Green Flag status in 2011. See green flag awards
Activities
- adiZone - includes a streetball court, a tennis wall, a traversing climbing wall and outdoor gym equipment. Information on coaching sessions
- Gardens and Quiet garden
- Ecology area
- Amphitheatre and small hall
- Friends Group
- Hard court floodlit area with
multisport and basketball facilities - Leaflet available on request
- Picnic area
- Public art features
Facilities
- Service Standards
- Toilets: Yes, with full access for people with disabilities, baby changing
- Ward(s): Cathall
- Area: 1.89 hectares
- Parks and Open spaces leaflet
Accessibility information
» See Disabled Go website
Location and transport
Location: Birch Grove, E11 4YG
Tube/train: Nearest tube/train station: Leytonstone Station
Tube/train distance to park: 25 minutes walk, 3/4 mile
Buses: 257
Background information
Langthorne Park was opened on 17th June 2000.
The park derives its name from the Stratford-Langthorne Abbey, founded in 1135 and which owned 1500 acres of local farmland. It was on some of this land that the West Ham Union Workhouse was built in 1842 to provide "relief to the poor". It housed up to 1000 inmates from the surrounding areas of Walthamstow, Leyton, Stratford and West Ham.
West Ham County Borough Council ran it as a home for the chronic sick, aged and infirm known as the "Central Home". In 1948 it was reborn as "Langthorne Hospital", specialising in the care of the elderly. By the late 1980s, however, the site was declared surplus to requirements. The main original workhouse building was acquired by the Waltham Forest Housing Action Trust and has been converted into residential accommodation with the rest of the site acquired by Waltham Forest Council in 1996 for the Langthorne Park development.
The park features a number of specially commissioned art features enhancing both the physical environment of the park as well as providing visual representations of the site's long history.
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