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Majestic Mayfair and America
Visit the most expensive area on the British Monopoly board. Start where many thousands ended their days on Tyburn Tree, visit Little America, see where the Queen was born. See Shepherd Market, a charming complex of alleys that have not lost their 1 8thC atmosphere.
Meet at Marble Arch Tube Station
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Shakespeare's London
400 years ago William Shakespeare arrived in London and helped build the original Globe theatre. Later Sam Wanamaker initiated the building of the present Globe. We will visit the Bankside — area of the Globe, Tate Modern, enter the era of the 16th and 1 7thC "stews", bear baiting dens, old dock, Clink prison ending at the coaching inn, in which the galleried courtyard his plays are still performed.
Meet at Blackfriars Tube Station.
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The City's Square Mile
2000 years of history, which starts with evidence of the Roman occupation and following through the narrow alleys and cobble stone lanes. Seeing the oldest public Bank in the World, the Lord Mayor's Mansion House and the ancient Guildhall. Meet at Bank Tube Station.
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Monasteries, Dissolution and Dickens' Clerkenwell and Smithfield
See the remains of the monasteries built outside the City walls in the 1 540s, dissolved by Henry VII during his divorce with Catherine of Aragon. At Smithfield hear about the peasant revolt and the assassination of Wat Tyler by Mayor William Walworth. Walk down the narrow alleys familiar to Dickens's character Oliver Twist
Meet at St. Paul's Tube Station.
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Chelsea - Points of Interest and Early Residents
Here is one of Christopher Wren's masterpieces - The Chelsea Hospital, enter into another era where "pensioners", old soldier wear l7thC uniforms. See Whistler's Thames. Homes of artists:- John Singer Sargent, Turner, Dante Rossetti, Sir Laurence Oliver's, Oscar Wilde's, Carlyle's and Mick Jagger's home. Walk along Chelsea's enchanting streets. See the old Apothecary Garden and Sir Thomas Moore's Church.
Meet at Sloane Square Tube Station.
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Literary Theatre Walk
See a l7thC palace entrance to the River. Dickens' first London home. Hear about Nell Gwen mistress to Charles II and England's first famous female actress. See London's oldest restaurant, Covent Garden and the Actor's Church. See Dickens's old Curiosity Shop, the oldest West End theatre and the Opera House.
Meet at Embankment Tube Station
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Lawyers and Legal London
The Inns of Court could pass for a collection of Oxford and Cambridge colleges right in the heart of London. They are a warren of courtyards and passages ways. Here Barrister wear gowns and wigs
Meet at Temple Tube Station.
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Spitalfields Early London Immigrant Area
going back to l5th/l6thC with the influx of the Huguenot refugees to present day Bengali community.
Meet at Liverpool Street Tube Station.
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Regents Park
The Hanoverian Kings to the Industrial Revolution canal system.
Meet at Great Portland Tube Station
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Old Port of London and Docklands
Look across the pool of London where sailing ships left to discover the Americas and Far East expanding the British Empire. See the great I9thC docks built to protect goods. See the old restored warehouses, nearby which is the oldest Riverside pub. See the new financial centre built on the Isle of Dogs.
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Greenwich
History of the Royal Naval College and the British Empire, the Queen's House, the Royal Observatory, where two hemispheres meet.
Meet either at Westminster Pier and take a boat trip up to Greenwich or meet at Greenwich Pier.
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Other Individual Interest Walks
can be arranged followed by a Pub Lunch or Afternoon Tea at a famous London Hotel or Venues like the Orangery at Kensington Palace or Fortnum and Mason
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All the above walks can be arranged for either the morning or afternoon
10.30 a.m. or 2 p.m. and last for about 2 hours.
They can start or finish at your Hotel or elsewhere by arrangement.
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Guided Walks out of London
include:
Oxford University, Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon, Roman and Georgian Bath, York through the ages, Pilgrim's walk through Canterbury.
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