Canal Guides
Aileen, Carla, Charlie, David, Flora, John, Lulu, Mike G., Naomi, Richard and Roger all have many years’ experience of the Inland Waterways and have explored them extensively by narrowboat (and, in Roger’s case, canoe). They’re all active members of the Inland Waterways Association, which works in partnership with us to provide the towpath walks in the London Walks programme.
All of Canal Guides's Walks
The Secrets of the Northern Queen Elizabeth Olympics Park
Saturday, 03 October 2026 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
"unique in Britain. A double radial gate lock, it was designed to cope with floods and tides..."
The Regent's Canal: King's Cross-Granary Square-Camden
Sunday, 18 October 2026 @ 2.30 pm
The London of a couple of centuries ago. A London of tunnels and bridges and narrowboats and locks.
The Regent's Canal – River Tyburn to Camden
Sunday, 01 November 2026 @ 2.30 pm
Bucolic to huzzah and colour and panache and buzz
Grosvenor Canal & Battersea Power Station
Sunday, 15 November 2026 @ 2.30 pm
Combines the hidden byways of London's most secret canal and the Thames' mightiest cathedral.
The Regent's Canal - Little Venice to Camden Town
Sunday, 06 December 2026 @ 1.45 pm
Life's better by water...
Christmas Special: Mince Pie boat cruise on The Regent's Canal
Sunday, 20 December 2026 @ 1.45 pm
Mince pies, hidden waterways and a boat ride through Islington’s secret tunnel. Christmas in London doesn’t get much more magical than this.
The Regent's Canal - King's Cross, Granary Square, St. Pancras
Friday, 01 January 2027 @ 1.45 pm
"unseen, untrodden, unexplored, unknown London beckons"
Other walks in Canal Guides's repertoire.
They run occasionally as 'Specials' but can also be booked privately.
Grand Surrey Canal, Rotherhithe, Mayflower, Surrey Water, Greenland Dock
"We've got an old canal here. And a dock. And memories. And traces..."
The Grand Union Canal – Little Venice & Paddington Green
"a secret corner of London closed to the public for 200 years"
Grand Surrey Canal, Royal Navy Victualling Yard, Greenland Dock
A get away from it all walk – down on that towpath it's 200 years ago.
The Regent's Canal – Mile End to Haggerston
"Welcome to an English rainforest of different types of trees and plants. Then a POW! of a contrast..."
River Wandle & Wandsworth Canal
"there's no lovelier piece of lowland scenery in South England..."
The Regent's Canal – King's Cross to Hitchcock's Hackney
out of the chrysalis of old 19th-century industrial London into the buzz of a new London
Royal Victoria Dock to East India Dock Towpath Walk
A new towpath walk created by the London Walks team of Regent's Canal guides (in conjunction with the IWA – Inland Waterways Association)
The Secrets of the Northern Queen Elizabeth Olympics Park
"unique in Britain. A double radial gate lock, it was designed to cope with floods and tides..."
Limehouse - Thames - Docklands
"part gentrified, part solidly working class"
The Regent's Canal – River Tyburn to Little Venice
"we step into a different world here, a different world bouquet’d with incidental delights – 'The Upside Down House', for example..."
The Grand Union Canal – Kensal Green to Little Venice
"the Cinderella of London's canal network"
The Regent's Canal – Mile End to Limehouse
"from the Age of Canals to cutting edge, 21-st century London"
The Regent's Canal: King's Cross to Canal Museum Circular Tour (includes visit to Museum)
London’s canals have a fascinating story to tell – and it flows through here...
The Regent's Canal – Islington to Kingsland Road
"ankle power, water power, horsepower, steam engine power, electric power, internal combustion engine power – the walk, er, runs the gamut"
Four Hundred Years of the New River
It's not new and it's not a river...