{"id":2480,"date":"2020-10-03T04:51:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T04:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2020-10-03T04:51:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T04:51:05","slug":"walthamstow-wetlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2480","title":{"rendered":"Walthamstow Wetlands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Walthamstow Wetlands is an operational site for Thames Water and a nature reserve open to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From the mid-19th century London\u2019s rapidly growing population needed a reliable supply of clean water, so ten reservoirs were created between 1863 and 1904 in Walthamstow. They have provided Londoners with their drinking water ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2000, the site was designated part of the Lea Valley Special Protection Area for wildlife. It gained international Ramsar<\/a> status as an important wetland habitat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following restoration of the buildings and habitat enhancement, Walthamstow Wetlands re-opened to the public in 2017. They are currently open between 10.30am \u2013 4pm each day so a small group of City Adventurers took a walk around. Visitors are required to socialise in groups of 6 or less and to keep their distance from other visitors when indoors and outdoors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Roundhouse once sat in a formal Victorian garden, topped with a rotunda. All traces of the garden are long gone, but the valves housed below still act as an interchange between reservoirs 1 and 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n