It formed in the crater left by the explosion of a German V-2 rocket on 11 February 1945, during World War II.

[2] On 11 February 1945, its 3rd Artillery Battery launched one of its many attacks against London.

[3] The V2 rocket, however, did not hit its target and ended up in the Walthamstow Marshes instead.

[4] Nobody was killed, but one person was injured, and the nearby Latham Timber Yard was covered in thick mud.

Today, it can be seen in a cattle enclosure by the footpath following the River Lea on the south-west corner of the Walthamstow Marshes.