River Lea

Shall we go this way? Let's go this way.

down into a little valley space between the main Hackney Marshes and the River Lea, or rather the canal bit of the River Lea, which you often can't go on because it gets very muddy.

So we can, just at the beginning of autumn here, we can make the most of it.

Gorgeous, isn't it?

They were armed with spears.

They followed the chase through the great forest afterwards called the Middlesex Forest, Epping Forest, Hainault Forest, and across the marshes of the River Lee, full of sedge and reed and treacherous quagmires, and they saw before them the grey walls of a great city of which they had never heard.

They advanced cautiously.

They found themselves on a firm road, the vicinal way, covered with grass.

This work re-established confidence in the minds of the citizens.

Alfred placed his son-in-law Ethelred, afterwards alderman, i.e. chief man, governor, of the Mercians, in command of the city, which seems to have been immediately filled with people.

The London citizens went out with Ethelred to defeat the Danes at Benfleet, and with Alfred to defeat the Danes at the mouth of the River Lee.

They went out with Athelstan to fight at Brannanburh.

So pretty grim.

And also, they also buried them in Essex and Hertfordshire because, uh, they, uh, you've got the River Lea, which goes up to Bishop's Stortford.

Mm-hmm.

And to get the bodies out of London, they're running out of space, there's, there's plague pits going up either side of the River Lea, apparently, uh, that they sort of dumped the bodies in 'cause there, there, there's so many people dying from it.

They, they, they just didn't know what to do.

But it's, it's the only thing the authorities could do.

Let's start with some of the good stuff.

So we went to the Princess of Wales on Lebridge Road, basically at the bottom of Lebridge Road near the, I call it the ice hockey stadium, but it's the ice rink, isn't it? Basically on the River Lea.

You went all BBC verified on me.

I possibly made a mistake last week when I called it the Prince of Wales, but it's the Princess of Wales.

Please do not go to the Prince of Wales on Uber because you could end up in Barnet or wherever.

I don't know.

But the Princess of Wales on the River Lea.

Yeah, really nice in there,

Oh, good.

But then there's also some really nice bike rides up through Hackney Marshes and up the River Lea you can do.

Really nice.

Does it

They were armed with spears.

They followed the chase through the great forest afterwards called the Middlesex Forest, Epping Forest, Hainault Forest, and across the marshes of the River Lee, full of sedge and reed and treacherous quagmires.

And they saw before them the grey walls of a great city of which they had never heard.

They advanced cautiously.

This work re-established confidence in the minds of the citizens.

Alfred placed his son-in-law Ethelred, afterwards alderman, i.e. chief man, governor, of the Mercians, in command of the city, which seems to have been immediately filled with people.

The London citizens went out with Ethelred to defeat the Danes at Benfleet, and with Alfred to defeat the Danes at the mouth of the river Lee.

They went out with Athelstan to fight at Brannenborough.