Mabley Green

About

Mabley Green is a sizeable piece of common land adjacent to Homerton, Clapton Park and Hackney Wick in the east of the London Borough of Hackney measuring 35.5 acres (144,000 m2). Originally it was part of a continuous land mass on both sides of the Lee Navigation that formed the Hackney Marshes. in 1915 a piece of the Marshes was taken to create the National Projectile Factory and after World War I, in 1922, this site was used to create the Mabley Green recreation ground.

Located next to the A12 road, it is linked to Hackney Wick and St Mary of Eton via the Red Path walkway and cycle path. It has an all-weather football pitch, an outdoor gym and basketball hoops. The park holds a Green Flag Award accreditation.

The large and distinctive rock in the centre of the park was placed there in 2008 as part of an art project. It is designed as a rock climbing or bouldering challenge, having several routes of varying difficulty. It can also be viewed as a piece of sculpture.

The stone weighs around 60 tonnes and was quarried in Cornwall. A book of photojournalism documenting the community using the wall during the COVID-19 pandemic, Mabley Green Class of '21 was published in 2022. To ensure...