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Walks in Islington.

2 editor-picked walks through Islington. Each one has been walked — stops, distances, and a paragraph on what to notice.

North London's best street market, a Huguenot square, and a park that earns its size.

Under the hill by tunnel, then above it through the gasworks and the green chain.

Nearby

Other walks close to Islington.

Sorted by distance from the start of angel to highbury fields. Good for stitching together a longer day.

Coffee, jewellery, a thousand-year-old hospital, and a meat market at the end.

The most ambitious urban regeneration in London, with a working canal at its heart.

Five independent bookshops and the ghosts of the writers who browsed them.

Sunday flowers, a pub crawl in the right direction, and the quietest alley in East London.