Victorian London - Entertainment and Recreation - Parks, Commons and Heaths - Bonner's Fields

BONNER'S FIELDS. An open space on the banks of the Regent's Canal, near one of the entrances to Victoria Park, and so called from the House of Bishop Bonner at Bethnal Green, lately taken down. These fields were one of the places of assemblage of the Chartist Rioters of 1848.

Peter Cunningham, Hand-Book of London, 1850