The following walks have been tried and tested over the last four years and we rotate them so there’s always something to discover.
London Discovery Walks
1. Dickens City
Uncover Charles Dickens’s life and characters through Victorian City streets. No previous knowledge needed.
2. The Fleet Valley
Explore Clerkenwell’s medieval roots, its many transformations, and the course of the hidden river.
3. Wapping
Discover “Sailor Town” and the powerful influence of the river on this historic quarter.
4. Blitz
A dozen stories and related sites telling the City of London’s experience during WWII.
5. Circling The Square Mile
Follow the course of the Roman wall that defined London until the Great Fire.
6. Spitalfields
A story of diversification: how Huguenot, Irish, Jewish, and Bangladeshi immigrants left their mark.
7. City Open Spaces
The City boasts 200 parks and gardens; we visit a curated selection with their unique anecdotes.
8. Peeping Through The 17th Century
Reveal the man behind the diaries: Samuel Pepys and his witness to fire, plague, and war.
9. Mayfair
Forget the hotels; discover dodgy priests, corrupt MPs, and Napoleon’s… well, you’ll see.
10. Fleet Street
The journalists have gone but their ghosts remain in the famous Street of Ink.
11. Stepney
Uncover the spirit and culture of this archetypal East End quarter amidst its architecture.
12. The City Livery Companies
How medieval craft guilds evolved into the power houses of the Square Mile.
13. Monasteries, Merchants & Markets
The Medieval City revealed through stories of conflicting religion and trade.
14. Legal London
Inns of Court, the Royal Courts, and some unsavoury episodes that bypassed the law.
15. Hampstead Village
Steep hills and back streets. Rumour has it someone “not famous” actually lives here!
16. Islington
An eclectic mix of stories from a stroll around the quieter streets of The Angel.
17. Roman London
Londinium lies 18 feet below the streets—bring your imagination to discover 400 years of rule.
18. Queens, Consorts and Concubines
The marks left by medieval queens on the Square Mile and the landmarks associated with them.
19. Marylebone
Two sieges, Mandy Rice Davies, the Beatles, and streets you never knew existed.
20. Pleasure Gardens of Clerkenwell
Tracking down secret gardens and the historic spas that competed with Sadler’s Wells.
21. City Street Art
Sculptures, monuments, and friezes—open your eyes to the art most people walk right past.
22. Bloomsbury
Meet Peter Pan, Kenneth Williams, and Stella & Fanny in this assortment of historic buildings.
23. Stoke Newington
Abney Park, Daniel Defoe, and an area rich in history and remarkable architecture.
24. Wren’s City Churches
A visit to the late 17th-century baroque churches designed for Anglican worship.
25. Let’s All Go Down The Strand
Grand palaces, Somerset House, the Savoy, and the statues of Embankment Gardens.
26. The Dark Side of The City
A dusky stroll unearthing ghost stories, crimes, and horrors. Not for the faint-hearted!
27. Women First in The City
Breaking the “male bastion” image to discover the women who made their mark on the Square Mile.
28. Bishopsgate
Travel the universe through Street Art in Broadgate and the surrounding areas.
29. Fitzrovia
Tacky Bohemia meets Classic Georgian architecture in this overlooked area.
30. Georgian London
While the West End has the glitz, the City was the heart of the Georgian Empire.
31. Hackney Central
Tudor houses, Georgian squares, unique social housing, and the ‘Ackney Empire.
More Walks in Our Rotation
- 32. South Hackney
- 33. Copenhagen Fields
- 34. Seven Dials & St Giles
- 35. Bethnal Green
- 36. Kentish Town
- 37. Rotherhithe
- 38. Borough
- 39. Somers Town
- 40. Kings Cross
- 41. Bermondsey
- 42. Goodmans Fields
- 43. Hoxton
- 44. Pimlico
- 45. Maida Vale
- 46. Little Venice
- 47. Smithfield & Charterhouse
- 48. Shadwell & St Georges
- 49. Hatton Garden
- 50. Chaucers London
- 51. Shakespeare In The City
- 52. Shadow Of The Abbey
- 53. Limehouse
- 54. Soho
- 55. Primrose Hill
- 56. Little Italy
- 57. London Bridge
- 58. Shoreditch
- 59. Camden Town
- 60. St James & Pall Mall
- 61. Bunhill Fields & St Lukes
- 62. Belgravia
- 63. Bloomsbury Squares
- 64. Hans Town
- 65. Weavers Fields
- 66. Maitland Park
- 67. Priories, Friaries & Nunneries
- 68. Canonbury
- 69. Barnsbury
- 70. Highbury
- 71 Lambeth
- 71. Newington Green
- 73. Mile End
- 74 Kings Road Chelsea
- 75Hampstead Heath
- 76. Bankside
- 77. Bow
- 78. Pentonville
- 79. Holborn Circus
- 80. Vincent Square
- 81. Poplar
- 82. Red Lion Square
- 83. Shad Thames
- 84. De Walden Estate
- 85. Follow The Fleet
- 86. Bloomsbury North
- 87. Whitechapel
- 88. Tyburn Village
- 89. DeBeauvoir
- 99. St Johns
- 91. Hornsey
- 92. Victoria
- 93. West India Dock
- 94. Mornington Crescent
- 95. Dalston
- 96. Paddington
- 97. Museum Quarter
- 98. Golden Square (in prep June 2026)
- 99. Regents Quarter (in prep June 2026)
- 100. Blackwall (in prep June 2026)