Finding us: Want to contact us or find us? Full directions below:

• Email and telephone numbers

Email for general enquiries to:  info[at]organiclea.org.uk

Phone us at our Hornbeam Centre office: 020 8558 6880 (box scheme, market stall, support for community food growing projects.)

Phone the Hawkwood Plant Nursery office, our growing site: 020 8524 4994 (volunteer opportunities, support local food production, get skilled and receive food growing advice, training and project support.)

• Directions to our sites: Hawkwood Plant Nursery and the Hornbeam Centre

Getting to the Hawkwood Plant Nursery
Growing site for Organiclea
Address: 115 Hawkwood Crescent, Chingford, E4 7UH (map below)

The plant nursery is at the very top of this Crescent with large metal iron gates leading into the Plant Nursery. As you walk up the Crescent, take the left turning at Epping Glade and keep walking through the metal gates and towards the glasshouse. Follow the entrance signs.

Hawkwood Crescent is off Sewardstone Road (A112).
Telephone number at the Nursery: 020 8524 4994

Taking Buses, trains and bicycles to Hawkwood:

From Chingford Train Station: From outside the station take bus 379, every 15 minutes (every 30 minutes on a Sunday). Get off at Yardley Primary School on Hawkwood Crescent (very end of Drysdale Avenue) and walk up the road to the Plant Nursery – 2 minutes walk.

From Walthamstow Central underground: Take bus 215 from Walthamstow Central bus station which goes via Hoe Street, The Bell, Billet Roundabout, Chingford Mount Get off on Sewardstone Road, at the Hawkwood Crescent stop. Cross this main road and walk up Hawkwood Crescent - the Plant Nursery is at the very end. About 5 minutes walk from the bus stop.

Other local buses: The 313 stops at the end of Drysdale Avenue, other end to Hawkwood Crescent. This bus connects to Potters Bar, Enfield, Southbury and Ponders End rail stations. The walk from this bus stop is 10 mins.

By bicycle: The River Lea towpath guides you from lower Walthamstow and North Hackney (Clapton); get off just before Ponders End lock and turn right into Lea Valley Road. Turn left at main traffic light junction into Stewardstone Road. Hawkwood Crescent is a turning about 500m along on the right.

Getting to the Hornbeam Centre in Walthamstow

458 Hoe Street, E17 9AH (By the Lea Bridge Road Bakers Arms Junction)

We use the Hornbeam Centre as a distribution and administration base, where there is a weekly organic market stall and community cafe on Saturdays from 10am. Our main box scheme pick-up is here on Wednesdays.

Nearest tube station Walthamstow Central, served well by buses coming to the Bakers Arms junction on Lea Bridge Road and many cycle routes.