This excursion will be back soon. In the meantime we’d be happy to organise a private tour for you. Please contact us on 020 7624 3978 | [email protected] to make a booking.

Leeds Castle & Canterbury

Victoria railway station, London

Guided by Simon

Short read: "loveliest castle in the world" and "England in stone" 

"Longer read: As good as it gets. The ripe perfection of the Kentish countryside and Leeds Castle ("standing on its twin islands in the river Len, [it] rises romantically above the reed-fringed waters of its moat-lake)." Fairy-tale setting: no wonder it's "the loveliest castle in the world." As for Canterbury – across the immense span of centuries we wend. Like Chaucer's pilgrims to "Caunterbury we wende." And what tales Canterbury has to tell. Tales writ in the ancient cathedral towering moodily over nearby pubs and shops. Tales gleaned from half-timbered, whitewashed little houses lining narrow streets. Tales borne by the river Stour swabbling past brilliant flower beds and under arching stone bridges. In Canterbury we enter another world, we step into mediaeval history.

LEEDS CASTLE & CANTERBURY EXCURSION – THE PRACTICALS

We go to Leeds Castle & Canterbury on Saturday, September 14. Meet Simon at 8.45 am by the main ticket office of VictoriaRailway Station. The Tariff is £58. For the total cost of the trip just add the Tariff to the guide's fee.*

*The guide's fee for a Day Trip is £18 for adults. Or £16 for Super Adults (over 65s) and students. Or £14 for people with the London Walks Discount Card. Kids under 15 accompanied by their parent(s) go free.

LONDON WALKS REVIEWS

"Best Tourism Experience in England"   Gold Medal Winner, Visit England

"London Walks was acknowledged as the premier walking tour company in the entire world"   American Tour Guides Convention

LONDON WALKS PRIVATE EXCURSIONS

If you can't make the regularly scheduled, just-turn-up, public Leeds Castle & Canterbury Excursion do think about booking one as a private tour. If you go private you can have the Leeds Castle & Canterbury Excursion – or any other London Walk – on a day and at a time that suits your convenience. We'll tailor it to your requirements. Ring Fiona or Noel on 020 7624 3978 or email us at [email protected] and we'll set it up and make it happen for you. Makes a fabulous wedding present or birthday gift or anniversary outing. Merchandise schmerchandise (gift wrapped or not) – but giving someone an experience, now that's special. Memories make us rich.  

IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THE GUIDING

"If this were a golf tournament every name on the Leader Board would be a London Walks guide"

LONDON WALKS – STREETS AHEAD!

Don't just take it from us. 

THE FAMOUS WHITE LONDON WALKS LEAFLET

"Nah, don't need it, got it all here," you say. Er, roaming charges? Er, dead battery? Er, reading your phone in the bathtub and you drop it? [Smelling salts interval: sick as a parrot. ashen-faced.] Er, read the famous white leaflet in the bathtub and you drop it what do you do? Er, you dry it out. Anyway, maybe worth making a mental note that you can always pick up the famous white London Walks leaflet at the Cafe in the Crypt at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the old church in Trafalgar Square. They're on the Information Table there, right by the box office. And indeed they also display them on the shop counter, right by the cash register. And it's win-win because the Cafe in the Crypt is one of the town's delights. Should be on everybody's London itinerary.