Wicked stuff
I live just yards from wanstead flats - it really does look just like you are going to stumble on a dead body at any moment, but it's usually just dog crap. Great place to fly a kite and piss around with my paraglider though.
Just a 5min walk up the flats though and you come to the bottom of Epping Forest, which is really nice, and there is a wicked walk to wanstead town via a load of old over grown ornamental lakes: tinyurl.com/wanflat - google map link - the flats are down bottom left of screen, nice park top right.
Forest Gate can be rough, but the north side (near the flats) is pretty nice. Or that's what i keep telling myself since i bought the house there...
(, Wed 28 Jan 2009, 14:48, Reply)