Walking Tour - Mildmay and Newington Green - Mission and Dissent

On this walk we explore Mildmay and Newington Green the little known but hugely historic areas between Dalston and Canonbury. We follow the newly renamed Mildmay line passing St Jude's church which founded the Mildmay Mission. In the 1980s this became synomymous with the treatment of HIV/Aids. We see the site of Mildmay Park station and then go to nearby Newington Green, an area which welcomed religious dissenters in the 17th century and became a centre for radical thinkers and social reformers. Around the green, there is a terrace of houses dating back to 1658, a chapel dating from 1708 and a building that was once the headquarters of an organisation which sent Christian missionaries to China. One resident in the late 18th century was the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, and there is a rather controversial memorial to her on the Green.

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Host or Publisher Stephen Benton, Footprints of London