Bath & Avebury  New Walk!

Paddington Railway Station (meet by the main ticket office - it's near Platforms 1 & 2)

Guided by Simon

Adult: £144 · Students & Seniors: £139 · Children: £98

Walk Times

Day Walk Type Start Time End Time
2 May 2025 Day Trip 9 am 6.30 pm Summer Reserve Online
16 May 2025 Day Trip 9 am 6.30 pm Summer Reserve Online
30 May 2025 Day Trip 9 am 6.30 pm Summer Reserve Online
13 June 2025 Day Trip 9 am 6.30 pm Summer Reserve Online
27 June 2025 Day Trip 9 am 6.30 pm Summer Reserve Online
25 July 2025 Day Trip 9 am 6.30 pm Summer Reserve Online
8 August 2025 Day Trip 9 am 6.30 pm Summer Reserve Online
22 August 2025 Day Trip 9 am 6.30 pm Summer Reserve Online
5 September 2025 Day Trip 9 am 6.30 pm Summer Reserve Online
19 September 2025 Day Trip 9 am 6.30 pm Summer Reserve Online
3 October 2025 Day Trip 9 am 6.30 pm Summer Reserve Online
17 October 2025 Day Trip 9 am 6.30 pm Summer Reserve Online

THE ESSENTIALS

This is not mass tourism. There are only so many places available. Equally to the point, the tour can only go ahead if the uptake reaches the (low) minimum required number of participants.

Not surprisingly, the tour often sells out so early booking is advisable. As soon as you book you will receive a confirmation that your place has been reserved. The link you use to pay for the tour will be sent to you a few days before the tour.

The total cost is £144 per adult; £139 for Super Adults (over 65s), Loyalty Card holders and full-time students; £134 for Super Adults and Full Time Students with the Loyalty Card; £98 for children.

The charge covers the guide’s fee, your return train fare, entrance fees, and the coach fare (we charter a local coach for our Avebury excursion). The charge covers everything except your lunch!

N.B., the deadline for late booking – should there be places available – is mid-day on the day before the tour. Payment must be made by 6 pm that day.

OK, LET’S GO TO BATH & AVEBURY

Always drink upstream from the herd

Another way of putting that: “In Simon – and London Walks – we trust.”

So we’ve rethought – and reworked – our trip to Bath.

These days the standard Bath ‘route’ is a little bit like the South Col route up Everest, the South Side of Everest. It’s overcrowded with inexperienced climbers.

We – well, Simon – the Zeus of the Olympia of London Walks guides (to mix my mountaineering metaphors) – has taken stock and said, “Bath is better than that. Can be done better than that. Much better. Time’s have changed, that’s no longer the best way of doing Bath. Of seeing it. Experiencing it. Ascending it. That’s not London Walks. We give the madding crowd a miss. We don’t take people to places they can go to off their own bat.”

So much for the South Col – the Roman Baths – the hordes of tourists – we’re giving all that a miss. We’re going the route less travelled. Eschewing tourist Bath, showing you off-the-beaten path Bath, the Bath you wouldn’t find off your own bat.

The very best of Georgian Bath. Jane Austen’s Bath. (For the record, Stonehenge has pretty much gone the way of Roman Baths Bath. Which is why we’ve also parted company with it; why we’re going to Avebury instead.)

So where do we go? What do you see? In a dozen words: we get off the train and go on the perfect Bath walk. It’s sheer beauty – might be a Constable painting. We go off the beaten path, thread our way through back street Bath, show you a Bath that’s more quirky, not touristy. Needless to say, it’s very London Walks that.

We start by walking along the river. We go through Bath market. Medley after medley of Georgian houses, of honey-coloured stone. Step by step it builds to its climax: Bath at its best, Georgian England at its best, Jane Austen’s and Beau Nash’s Bath. In short, the Circus, the Royal Crescent, Queen’s Square. And for a peroration, Number 1, Royal Crescent, the magnificently restored town-house museum. And, yes, of course, we go inside. Historic furniture, pictures and objects that reveal what life was like for Bath’s fashionable residents – both upstairs and downstairs. Welcome to the 1770s and 1780s.

Tea time, bun time, culinary fun time.

Bath’s got it all. Even an English Montmartre in places.

So that’s 250 years ago. And then we switch the afterburner on. We go back 5,000 years. Back to the Neolithic Bronze Age. We go to Avebury.

Whoa! “Avebury surpasses Stonehenge as a cathedral doth a parish church.”

Avebury! Beggars all description. Largest stone circle complex on earth. Speaks to us across the ages, speaks of a secret geometry and lost science, of an ancient time more clairvoyant and star-born than ours. And, yes, you walk amongst them, touch them, selfie with the stones. 

Avebury!  Avebury, Wiltshire! On the River Kennet at the foot of the Marlborough Downs.

Avebury! Window on time-honoured England, the best of England.

BATH & AVEBURY – IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THE GUIDING

The 75 London Walks guides are the crème de la crème of London guides. They’ve garnered nearly 5,000 ***** (five star) reviews. Simon Law all by himself has pulled in hundreds of those rave reviews. His ‘review portfolio’ is the northern lights of London Walks reviews. Bottom line, don’t just take it from us that you can’t do better than entrust your precious time to Simon Law. This is one special guide.

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