Could it be, that Spring is here?

Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window,into which people look(while people stare arranging and changing placing carefully there a strange thing and a known thing here)and changing everything carefully spring is like a perhaps Hand in a window (carefully to and fro moving New and Old things,while people stare carefully moving a perhaps...

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Origins of Clapton Square

The name Clapton comes from the Saxon word Clop’ton meaning ‘farm on the Hill’ and was part of the medieval settlement known as Hackney. Agriculture was central to the village economy and the area prospered. Clapton Square sits directly on an ancient drover’s route known as the Black Path. The path was used to move livestock from Waltham Abbey and...

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New Pond Play Area opened today

The new Pond Play Area was opened today (3 December 2021) by Cllr Caroline Woodley, (right) Cabinet Member for Green Spaces, and Lea Bridge Ward councillors Margaret Gordon and Ian Rathbone. As Chair of Clapton Pond Neighbourhood Action Group, Cllr Rathbone said: It’s taken us some years in campaigning for this moment to happen and I am very pleased we...

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Volunteering Opportunities

Shout out with a couple of specific opportunities to get involved with us at Clapton Pond Neighbourhood Action Group (If these don’t appeal and you just want to find out about getting involved, get in touch as well). Opportunity 1. A local resident is volunteering their time to collate a large library of old photos of the area into a...

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Walk – Lower Clapton and the Round Chapel

Lower Clapton Guided Walk with visit to the Round Chapelled by Julia LaffertySaturday 16 October11am-1pm For our first physical event in 20 months, Julia Lafferty will take us on a walk around the Clapton Square Conservation Area, revealing the area’s radical past, including the visits made by Lenin to a Bolshevik sympathiser in Clapton and the women’s suffrage campaigner who...

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