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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 21/06/2026 00:44:00

Built on reclaimed industrial land in Stratford, east London, the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is the lasting legacy of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. It is one of the largest new urban parks created in Europe in more than a century. The site lies in the Lower Lea Valley, an area of old factories, railway yards and contaminated ground that was cleared and decontaminated from 2007. The River Lea and its channels were cleaned up and woven into the new landscape. During the Games of 2012 ...