The Black path is a trail from Walthamstow to Shoreditch done justice in these two links Spittlefields Life . The route of this medieval footpath is visible through street markets, shop and road names. There is no formal map of the Black path, yet a keen walker with a sense of direction, willing to make a few twists and turns, through several welcome green spaces, will find their way. Tracing a trajectory running northeast and southwest between Shoreditch Church and the crossing of the River Lea at Clapton, the Black Path links with Old Street in one direction and extends beyond Walthamstow in the other. Sometimes called the Porter’s Way, this was the route cattle were driven to Smithfield and the path used by smallholders taking produce to Spitalfields Market. Sometimes also called the Templars’ Way, it links the thirteenth century St Augustine’s Tower on land once owned by Knights Templar in Hackney with the Priory of St John in Clerkenwell where they had their headquarters.