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Camden Unlocked

Historic Camden Town

Camden is an area that is full of contrasts from leafy crescents to "urban grunge". Learn of...

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Notting Hill

Explore the streets of London\'s most fashionable village. The site of Europe\'s biggest carnival, London\'s most famous street market and one of the UK\'s...

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Whores, Rakes and Greasepaint in the Stews of Covent Garden

Walk in the footsteps of little Nell Gwynne, the orange seller, a gutter snipe who became one of our very first English actresses. She was the prototype...

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Clapham

The elegant suburb with a distinguished history

A remarkable group of evangelical Christians, known as the Clapham Sect, made their homes around Clapham...

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Three Mills to Stratford

green ways and waterways

Walk along quiet paths by waterways, past mills where corn was once ground to feed London. Hear about...

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Elizabeth David\'s Chelsea

The Chelsea few know. The Cadogan Estate, Sloane Square and Ebury Shopping Village. A foodie\'s walk through the eyes of the great 1960s food and cookery...

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Contrasts on the City borders

London is constantly revealing and reinventing itself. This tour focuses on the ways that London and its ever-changing peoples are part of an organism...

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Greenwich Old and New

A view from the River: Location, Location, Location

Greenwich\'s fortunes have always been dependent on its Riverside position. This gentle walk along the...

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It\\\'s not all SEX in Soho

London\'s sauciest district has always been just a little bit different - and that\'s a tradition which continues to this day. For centuries, Soho has been...

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A Lover\'s Guide to Greenwich

This is a light hearted walk, hand in hand, with some of English histories most famous lovers. Discover the spot where Henry VIII danced with Anne Boleyn...

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Jack the Ripper

The Victorian police were completely unprepared for a serial killer who took away body parts and returned them accompanied by gloating letters. The horror...

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Theatrical London

Enjoy a tour of London\'s Theatreland covering a selection of the most historically interesting theatres in the West End. You\'ll learn about the development...

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London Fields to Spitalfields

London Fields - a village green in the heart of Hackney, home of London\'s only Olympic-size Lido. Stroll through the market, across the canal, to Hackney...

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Londinium - The Roman City

In today\'s financial district, discover the origins of London - Roman Londinium - the walls, bathhouses, forum, temple, amphitheatre and fort of the largest...

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The Rotherhithe Peninsula

A Page in London’s Docks’ Regeneration Story

The Walk tracks some of the network of channels and waterways dug out centuries ago to harbour London...

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Regent\'s Park

Grand terraces and grand vistas

Enjoy a healthy walk in the fresh air of Regent\'s Park in the middle of London. Admire splendid Regency...

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In Search of Sherlock Holmes

Follow in the footsteps of Holmes and Watson as they sally forth from 221B Baker St to pit themselves against the Victorian underworld. Recall their adventures...

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Fitzrovia

The Camden Town Group, the Omega Workshops & the Vorticists

This walk follows the artists of the Camden Town Group to their studios and to some of the scenes they...

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Bethnal Green to Brick Lane

Dollshouses, Town Houses and Bath Houses

Wealthy merchants and silk weavers used to live around this village green. See Bethnal Green\'s Tudor...

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Walter Sickert\'s Camden Town

This walking tour will look at artist Walter Sickert’s life & work in Camden Town: the character of Camden Town, and what drew Sickert there; the...

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Kilburn and the side roads

Kilburn\'s High Road is no mere NW London suburban High Street - this is a Roman freeway - check the straightness. In the Middle Ages pilgrims trudged up...

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From Royalty to Artists

Historic Kensington

Kensington has always been of London\'s most desirable areas thanks to its royal connections. The Royal...

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Seen and Unseen Golders Green

Green spaces, hidden places and famous faces in NW11

This walk takes in Golders Green’s green origins and present-day parks, as well as not one, but two...

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Silks and Spice

Spitalfields and Brick Lane

Monasteries, Market gardens, Murder, Markets and Modern architecture - all feature in this tour. With...

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Bloomsbury and the Foundling Museum

Old and new, art and architecture, music and philanthropy, children and adults …just some of the things included in this walk!

This walk links together some elegant squares of Bloomsbury, an architectural masterpiece by Sir Norman...

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British Black History

Hammersmith in West London is built on the sugar trade. In the twentieth century it attracted a lot of British/Black history. This walk includes the Hammersmith...

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Symmetry, satire and shoe polish

A walk round Chiswick

This is a walk in a forgotten corner of London.

We start with a leafy walk through a famous eighteenth...

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Beatles\' London

The Beatles are associated with Liverpool but they hit the big time here in London. Let your guide transport you back to "Swinging London" with...

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Will On The Hill

A Shakespeare walk around Ludgate Hill

Shakespeare was a Warwickshire lad - so were most of the Gunpowder Plotters. This is a walk about the...

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Bloomsbury - its buildings, squares and people

Hear about a few suprises in \'the godless college in Gower Street\' and the buildings of Bloomsbury where many from elevated circles lived in squares and...

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Royal Kensington

Enjoy the varied landscapes of Kensington Gardens from the fountains of the Italian Gardens to Kensington Palace via the beautiful vistas of the Long Water...

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Pottery, Philanthropy, Princes and Politics

Henry Doulton pioneered art pottery in Lambeth from the 1870s, and the Black Prince built a grand palace in the C14th at the heart of what is still an...

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Cockney Reminiscences

Pubs and the Penniless!

When we were kids you played in the street and left your doors unlocked – then war came! A time of...

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Tower Hill to Wapping

Walk the streets once lined with pirates\' pubs and brothels bulging with sailors. Hear their tales. Wonder at Victorian engineering and C20 Docks technology...

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Monarchs and Gentlemen of St James\'s

See palaces, shops, gentlemen\'s clubs and parks frequented by Kings, Queens and the aristocracy since Henry VIII\'s time in the 16th century.

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The East End Old & New

London\'s poorest borough has over the centuries hosted waves of hopeful immigrants in search of a better life. All have left their imprint on the area...

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A Thames River Walk

Fulham Reach

Beyond Putney Bridge, the Thames slows, forgetting the industrial lower river downstream. Here one encounters...

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The Canary Wharf Story

Walk the most pristine pavements you will ever see in London!

What has made vibrant Canary Wharf the most talked-about chapter in the Dockland’s regeneration game...

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More London

London\\\'s Larder to Jacob\\\'s Island

Home now to City Hall, Olympic Flags and some fine urban design, but until the 1960s a mass of wharves...

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Rushes from The Bush

Shepherds Bush in West London is the spiritual home of British cinema. This is the home of Steptoe and Son, the Daleks, Monty Python, Little Britain. See...

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Turner, Tobacco and a Mystic Swede

An Exploration of Wapping

Wapping is an area whose history is inextricably linked with the development of wharves and docks and...

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A Ghostly Walk through Legal London

This is a walk through the darker side of London\'s past, with ghosts, ghouls, blood and gore to recount as we wend our way along the Thames and through...

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Mayfair and Handel’s House

An elegant residential, shopping and business district that grew up in the ‘Georgian’ 18th Century. In 1723 the composer George Frederick Handel chose...

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Blackheath

Once the haunt of highwaymen and revolting peasants, and setting for occasions of royal splendour, Blackheath boasts some glorious architecture - from...

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Epping Forest

A day in the country

A walk around Epping Forest (“The Lungs of London”) - East Enders called it “A day out in the country...

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William Morris to Walthamstow Village

Walthamstow is the birthplace of the “Arts and Crafts” movement with William Morris, and “The Village” is custodian to some rich and important...

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South Bank

stunning views and murky history

The South Bank of the Thames is not just a great place from which to view London\'s cityscape, day or...

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Island Exploration

Discover the Isle of Dogs

Have you ever wondered about the origins of this mysterious name and why inabitants of this area call...

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Wanstead

This very popular walk shows a rare gem in East London with its three village greens and associations with a vast number of famous names such as Sir Isaac...

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Dickens\' London

Follow the footsteps of the author we most associate with London and hear about his life from his arrival in London as a 10 year old boy to his status...

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City Churches

Christopher Wren has to have been the canniest architect in the history of architecture! He came along just as a new King was enthusing about the latest...

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Stepping out in Stepney

Step out in Stepney to discover the hidden depths of this ancient London borough. From its Victorian schools and the charity that cared for thousands of...

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Hampstead - Village London

Come and explore village London. Hampstead has been home to poets, painters and novelists. Hear the fascinating stories of their lives, see where they...

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Statues and memorials of the famous and forgotten

London has more statues than any other city on earth. On this walk we see just a small percentage of them, erected to the great and the good and to those...

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Legal London

Exploring the Inns of Court and Royal Courts of Justice

We visit one of the most picturesque parts of London, steeped in history, where lawyers have lived and...

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Plagues, priories and Janet Street-Porter

Clerkenwell is one of London\'s oldest suburbs, on the north western edge of the Medieval city. Walk past four ruined priories, take in a plague pit from...

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Ladies of Note

Women of Westminster

Enjoy at walk around the heart of London, discovering the stories behind some of our greatest, inspiring...

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Londongrad

Russian London from Bayswater to Kensington

Laid out by Edward Orme from proceeds of money made from selling gravel to Tzar Alexander 1st, the streets...

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East London Parks and Gardens

Industrial pollution destroyed most of East London’s nurseries, market gardens, botanic gardens and splendid parks. But the “Hyde Park of the East...

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Thames River Pirates Walk

The Thames has always been London\'s jugular. It has always attracted blood-suckers. Come for a stroll through Wapping beside old Father Thames. Let\'s see...

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Pert Primrose Hill meets chaotic Camden Town

Discover chic and bohemian Primrose Hill, one of London’s prettiest villages, and home to a multitude of actors, rock stars & models.

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The Village on the Hill

Historic Highgate

Once surrounded by woodlands, Highgate was home to a few prominent gentlemen in their large houses but...

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Financial City

‘Old Jewry’ says it all. In 1066 William the Conqueror brought with him his personal Jews to handle the money side of his Conquest. Old Jewry was London...

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Westminster Politics

Parliament Square is a World Heritage Site, dedicated to the development of Parliamentary Democracy. Look around you at some of the most iconic buildings...

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Blackfriars & Sir Anthony van Dyck

The 16th & 17th century art world

Exploring the world of Sir Anthony van Dyck and his contemporaries

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Women Behaving Badly

The Suffragettes’ London

Follow the battling Pankhursts - a mum and three daughters at the beginning of the 20th century - as...

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From the Cockneys to the Krays

The Sinister Side of The East End of London

For centuries the East End of London has had its sinister side. This walk shows some of the more notorious...

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The Big Knickers Walk

Bridget Jones’ Diary

What DOES come after happily ever after, Bridget? See where Hugh and Colin duked it out in Borough Market...

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Royal Docks

New industry and business has flowed into the space left by departed world shipping. Future Olympic venue ExCeL stands surrounded by new hotels, restaurants...

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The James Bond Walk

Enter the world of spies - up-scale Mayfair was the inspiration for a middle aged, middle class British gent who created the 20th century\'s most popular...

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A river runs through it

Hammersmith Terrace - West London\'s Riviera

The Thames is London\'s largest open space. You can see it here for sure, at Furnival Gardens where every...

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Sovereigns, Sailors, Skulls and Shipwrights

Deptford is one of London\'s most historic Riverside towns. Once the site of the most important Shipyard in England, it has a rich maritime history, home...

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Belgravia

From Sloane Square to Belgrave Square and beyond

See where the great and the good, and the not so good, have lived and still live today in the grand stuccoed...

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The Great Fire of London

Walk through the world\'s financial centre the City of London. Imagine as it was in 4th September 1666 after a fire broke out in a baker\'s oven. In four...

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East End Markets

(Sundays only)

The East End of London has a vibrant market scene which is best explored with a knowledgeable guide....

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Finding Neverland

Peter Pan\'s Kensington Gardens

Say quickly that you believe in fairies! After Princess Diana died, some of the money collected was spent...

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Canary Wharf

Art & Architecture of the 21st Century

This spectacular part of Docklands began as a – risky - vision of an integrated commercial development...

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Virginia Woolf\'s London

Virginia Woolf, author of "The Waves", "The Years" "Mrs Dalloway" and many other classic literary works of the early 20th...

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The Mayfair Mitfords

1920s High Society, seen through the eyes of an exceptional family. The Mitford Girls went on to become a national institution, producing writers, campaigners...

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Multicultural Brixton

London\'s melting pot

Trace Brixton’s development from farming community and affluent early 19th C suburb, via the railways...

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Leyton & Leytonstone

One of London’s 2012 Games host boroughs, this also is the birthplace of David Beckham, Sir Alfred Hitchcock and many other famous names. Once the countryside...

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Little Venice

Explore the poetic Regent\'s Canal, the romantic houseboats and the Italianate mansions of the rich & famous. Discover one of London\'s most delightful...

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Dalston

Multicultural London in a nutshell

Dalston’s transformation from scruffy north-east London suburb to “the coolest place to live in Britain...

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Royal and Maritime Greenwich

Few places in London have such a rich and varied history as this small riverside town. Birthplace of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, Greenwich\'s Royal connections...

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Stratford East

New Eurostar Gateway and Olympic centre, Stratford was once a village in a rural Essex of mills and monasteries, then transformed into London\'s industrial...

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The Statues of STONEHEART

The cult children\\\'s fantasy book brought to life

Follow the route taken by young George Chapman in Charlie Fletcher\'s cult book about un-London, STONEHEART...

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Bow

Bow is an ancient area of East London which borders the London 2012 Games site. It was also the site of the Match Girls dispute in 1888 which changed the...

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Shoreditch & Hoxton

Clowns and Clubs

Shakespeare was here. From the site of London’s first purpose-built theatre, we see how the performing...

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Heart of Hackney

London Fields is home of London\'s only Olympic-size Lido and a vibrant market. A short walk takes you to one of London\'s finest music hall theatres, where...

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Jamestown 400th Anniversary

See where modern America began

The founding of Jamestown in Virginia in 1607 created America’s first permanent English colony and...

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Greenwich: Where Time Begins

At the stroke of midnight 1999, the World\'s attention was focused on a small London Riverside town. Home of the World\'s Prime Meridian, the new Millennium...

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The Peace Walk

On July 7th 2005 London\'s streets and Underground again became a war zone - having known peace since the IRA\'s renunciation of violence. The Peace Walk...

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Old Jewish East End

On this walk we follow the trail of London\'s Jewish community from the 17th century through to the 20th century while discovering the fascinating area...

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The Beat Goes On

London\'s Rock Landmarks

We trace the footsteps of those rock music legends and strike a chord in London’s own Tin Pan Alley...

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Irish Luminaries in London

The Emerald City

Discover Irish history where it actually happened - on the streets of London! From W.B. Yeats to Oscar...

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London Under London

A subterranean guide to the capital

A must for all who have ever stopped to think what lies beneath their feet. And whilst it\'s not possible...

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Secret Southwark

Many people are now familiar with the sites of Bankside but this walk delves into another side of Southwark away from the tourist trail. Two small art...

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Asparagus and aristocrats

A walk through Fulham

Fulham has roots going back to the Middle Ages and is now an interesting mix of the grand and the humble...

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