Public Walk – Natural and Built Heritage at Todmorden Mills Heritage Site

Date: Apr 25, 2026 at 13:00
Meeting Location: 67 Pottery Road at Todmorden Mills Heritage Site

Join us on Saturday, April 25th at 1 pm for a 1.5-hour, 1km circular nature and heritage walk.

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Co-leaders: Paula Davies and Kathy Chung

Location: 67 Pottery Road at Todmorden Mills Heritage Site

Description: The walk will begin and end at the entrance to the Wildflower Preserve. On our walk through the five kinds of habitats at the Preserve, we will look for early signs of spring and take particular note of work by TMWP stewards in the Preserve.  Recovery of natural areas is impacted by legacy structures which are remnants from European settlement, industrial and even recent times. We will look for these structures… some are hidden in plain view!

Participants are encouraged to take advantage of staff guided tours of the historic buildings and reach out to the environmental community groups on site at this special Eco-Fair day!

Details: A 1.5-hour, 1km circular nature and heritage walk on mostly unpaved but even surfaces with some gentle slopes. Some stairs

Meeting Spot: On the brick road by the pedestrian bridge

Getting There: Take the 8 Broadview, 87 or 86 Cosburn bus from Broadview Station. Get off at Pottery Road and walk down the path to the site. Parking available at the back of the site, entrance off Pottery Road.

Washrooms: At the beginning and end

What to Bring: Binoculars, cameras, umbrellas if needed

This walk is only one of more than 140 that TFN will host this year alone! TFN members enjoy a complete listing of walks in our newsletter. Not a member? Learn more about the benefits of membership now!

Please tag any photos you take on this walk with #TFNWalk so that we can all live vicariously through your lens.

Toronto Field Naturalists wishes to acknowledge this Land through which we walk. For thousands of years, the Land has been shared by the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, and the Anishinaabe. Toronto is situated on the Land within the Toronto Purchase, Treaty 13, the traditional and treaty Lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is also part of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum, a covenant agreement between Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Wendat peoples and allied nations to peaceably share the land and all its resources. Today, the Land is home to peoples of numerous nations. We are all grateful to have the opportunity to continue to care for and share the beauty of this Land.