Fleet Street flora & fauna

Walk preview

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   Step 1: 👋 Welcome to the first visitor centre for London National Park City at 109 Fleet Street!

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   Step 2: London National Park City is a movement to imagine our city as a National Park and explore ways to make it greener, wilder and healthier

3. Step 3: You can find out more at nationalparkcity.london or by popping into the visitor centre at 109 Fleet Street 🌱🔍 but first, come explore some of the local flora, fauna, and natural history of the City 🔍🌱

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   Step 4: Walk up Fleet Street towards Ludgate Circus, an old crossing point over the River Fleet! So, where is the River today?

5. Step 5: The River Fleet rises on Hampstead Heath and joins the Thames at Blackfriars Bridge. 🌊 Once a key waterway for the city, it became polluted, and between the 1730s and 1870s it was covered over. Now it is a subterranean secret!

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   Step 6: From Ludgate Circus turn left into Faringdon Street and immediately left into St Bride Street