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@oat44
So that trackway that I was so desperate to tell you about (®wiganwill).
It's been called various names in its time, **Porters' **Way, **Sylvester **Path, **Templars' **Path and **Black **Path, and was used by drovers and tradesmen to bring animals and produce from Essex to be sold at the markets at Spitalfields and Smithfields.
It's easier to trace it heading out of London. Starting at Columbia Road, it crosses Hackney Road to carry on up through Broadway Market and across London Fields. The line gets picked up again by Powerscroft Road and Millfields Park and continues over the Lea along the South Access road to Walthamstow where it was known as Black Path. Interestingly London Cycle Network Route 9 pretty much follows the old route as highlighted here:
http://maps.camdencyclists.org.uk/allroutes/?menu=NoneDrawn&menuHide=true&onRoutes=Route9&hilight=Route9
and those doing the Dun Run on Saturday might notice how their route sticks pretty close to this old track too.
The bit by the stone circle is where it crossed the River Lea, basically the point where the Lea stopped being affected by tides. The stone circle is completely unrelated except that it is on the same course of that old track. It was made from reclaimed stones from a disused beam engine.
more info for the track
http://easteight.com/?p=723