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Name: | Swanfield Street |
Hill number: | 19303 |
Height: | 18m / 59ft |
Parent (Ma): | 2874 Wendover Woods [Haddington Hill] |
RHB Section: | 39: Central and Eastern England |
County/UA: | Greater London |
London Borough: | Tower Hamlets (LB) |
Catchment: | Thames |
Class: | London Borough Top (CoL) |
Grid ref: | TQ 33789 82492 |
Summit feature: | no feature |
Drop: | 2m |
Col: | 16m TQ335826 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 176 177 (1:25k) 173 |
Comments: | Replaced hills 5595 and 5596 as Tower Hamlets LB top in March 2017 |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 79 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Swanfield Street from Shoreditch High Street Station | ronaldo333 | 21/10/2023 |
Raised section of small park. Short walk from Shoreditch overground station. | Lazylizzie | 27/09/2023 |
10 of 17. From Bethnal Green station on the central line. | WAYNE ROWLETT | 23/07/2023 |
After a stroll up Brick Lane. | afoster | 09/07/2023 |
Raised section of small park | Vulcan | 03/05/2023 |
Large detour on the way to Wembley | garyhoney | 26/03/2023 |
Virtual Blag | BrotherOzwin | 02/01/2023 |
Walked from Bethnal green station | colinfielding | 15/11/2022 |
Enjoyed a pleasant walk from Liverpool street station for 2 'hills' - Swanfield street and Bethnal Green. neither were that exciting but Columbia road flower market, Shoreditch and Hackney were enjoyable. | Buck | 13/11/2022 |
With Jo, walk from Old Street Station. Weather; overcast at first, then rain, mild. Good visibility. No fencing around the mound. Also visited the bandstand on the Arnold Circus which was built on some of the rubble from when they cleared the slums in the 1890's. Given the amount of demolition work being carried out in the area another bandstand could well be on the cards! | amblerbob | 04/05/2022 |
Also came via bandstand as many others seem to have done. Whilst on run from home | lerritt | 16/09/2020 |
Blocked off, so stood 20m away and jumped up | PaulB | 13/05/2020 |
Tower Hamlets and Newham, conquered on the same day! | pclyndes | 03/05/2020 |
Late night rainy drive in. Tower Hamlets and London Boroughs recompletion | RHW | 16/03/2019 |
From Old Street station, pretty straight line through side streets. Set in a classic LA housing development. | Moorponder | 12/02/2019 |
Walked from Cambridge Heath station via Bethnal Green (5595). | Ramblingpaul | 19/10/2018 |
After a coffee in Spittalfields to get out of the rain a bit we headed to the bandstand on the Arnold Circus and then navigated our way to what is billed as the highest point. 
A slightly raised grassy area behind a fence was reached and deemed the top. 
The rain was still coming down so we called it a day 
6 Borough tops! | ChinnockC | 06/10/2018 |
Very different. Old East End. Not the glamour of some other parts of London. | Campbell Singer | 01/07/2018 |
Good wander round this and the nearby streets - agree with others that there are points that appear higher | jedthehumanoid | 07/06/2018 |
Visited corner of Swanfield Street and Rhoda Street, as per OSGR. Obvious high point in pocket park. Walked via bandstand at Arnold Circus, which appears quite a bit higher based on visual judgement. | mrs_ts7 | 14/05/2018 |
Found myself staying nearby. Quick stroll to small park in Swanfield Street and then on to Banstand which was higher. | PeterD | 24/01/2018 |
On run from hotel in Holborn while in London on training course. | stever | 05/12/2017 |
A walk along Brick Lane from Aldgate East. Visited Swanfield Street and the Bandstand(a delightful anachronism) I am happy to go with listing. There is no natural top here or at most of the London Tops anyway. | Sixtyplus | 15/10/2017 |
Down in London for Pension meeting tomorrow. From Beckton Alps by DLR then decent walk from Docklands museum. Almost dark on arrival at grass knoll that is currently deemed to be the highest point in Tower Hamlets. It is definitely higher than nearby streets, but is almost certainly a man made feature. Have now re-completed the LB tops, which I had previous completed back in 2013. Given the distance from home, I'll be bloody annoyed if this top gets moved again! | Hillsidenick | 11/10/2017 |
Hoxton to Shoreditch H/St: Had a good wander around potential HPs after unsuccessful chase around town for a late season cricket fixture that hadn't been cancelled. | Smudge | 30/09/2017 |
TD & C | This Dog | 20/08/2017 |
100km round trip by bike | mcallmar | 19/08/2017 |
I reckon that the Arnold Street bandstand is higher ... what part of London is not man-made ground? | summitter | 01/08/2017 |
From Bethnal Green tube to Bethnal Green then Swanfield Street then Whitechapel and back to St Paul's Cathedral where I was working. | clivevilla | 24/07/2017 |
Agree with Nomad Perkins. HP is on the small communal park bounded by Swanfield St and Rhoda St. Bandstand bounded by Arnold Circus looks and feels man-made. LB tops recompleted. | jonglew | 24/06/2017 |
Highest point is the bandstand in the small circular park. | Swindon Bagger | 21/06/2017 |
A quick detour on a sunny evening, bound for City airport. From Liverpool Street tube to the grassy top of the park in Swanfield Street and back, miraculously unscathed by rush hour cyclists. | Nick Down1 | 15/06/2017 |
Third attempt to reach this particular borough top. Short walk from Shoreditch High Street past some of the classic local graffiti. There was even a tour group visiting some of it! | Mark Jackson | 27/05/2017 |
Small park appears highest natural ground in area, walked around nearby bandstand just in case, but it appears man-made. Coordinates I got were: TQ 33782 82495 | Nomad Perkins | 12/05/2017 |
Walking through London is always fascinating. So much happening and to see. Like a scene from Andrew Marr's Mega Cities just walking from Liverpool Street via arty Spitalfields market. Then DLR to Investigate Beckton Alps. | Chris Pearson | 27/04/2017 |
A swift one after work | squeegs | 06/04/2017 |
Attempted beating trimarc2 to claim new London hill first - assume summit small park on Swanfield St although bandstand is higher? | Fionalevey | 31/03/2017 |
Beaten to be first to log this hill by my daughter and then only by 10 mins | trimarc2 | 31/03/2017 |
Visited 03/11/2017, date used to sync previous completion. This is not the high point, under new summit and col rules the Angus street bandtand should be high point, the Swanfield Street location also man made. | nordicstar | 15/10/2013 |
Many, many times. | timmyp81 | 05/01/2009 |
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salen | 09/03/2024 | |
FinnTumps | 30/07/2023 | |
jameshoney | 26/03/2023 | |
BrianMatthews | 17/01/2023 | |
Matt | 31/08/2022 | |
PaulOnFoot | 07/05/2022 | |
Rockdoctor | 10/04/2020 | |
arjh | 09/10/2019 | |
kasharic | 27/01/2019 |