Trailblazing women shattered medicine’s glass ceiling. Guided by a practising surgeon, explore Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia and meet the pioneers who changed British healthcare forever
Unusual Walks
“London Walks makes the new familiar and the familiar new.”
So every London Walk – by definition – is “unusual.”
But what we mean here by the term “unusual” is walks that aren’t immediately obvious. For the most part they fall into two categories.
1. Walks – like Brook Green: The Secret Side of Hammersmith – that go off the beaten path, that explore an unfamiliar, largely unregarded part of London – a part of London it wouldn’t have occurred to you to visit. A part of London you perhaps haven’t even heard of.
2. Walks – like T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land Tour – that follow a rarefied thread. A thread you hadn’t noticed – or didn’t know was there – through an otherwise well-known part of London.
And don’t be under any misapprehensions – these are not “junior varsity” walks. Every one of them is A-List* – they’re just A-Listers that are less well known. See, by way of example, the review, below, of Rick Jones’ Wasteland Tour.
*Jessica’s February 2022 review of The Waste Land Tour: “In 20 years of London Walks, I think this is the best one I have ever been on. Rick is simply marvellous. I studied the Waste Land extensively at university but I never understood it the way I did after this tour. The stops are thoughtfully chosen to illustrate certain passages and Rick peppers in sprinklings of music and literature and history – he also sings beautifully and tells stories beautifully – it gives the Waste Land a new depth and humour. He recites long passages of the poem so that you can hear the music in them and speaks in the voices of the characters – all at once you recognize them as people, the kind of people who weave in and out of the streets all around you. It’s a beautiful homage to the City, to London, to Eliot, and to thousands of years of history that swirl around in the Waste Land. (But to be clear, even if you don’t care about this poem, this is still a WONDERFUL walk – the poem just serves as the anchor and you bob in and out of the poem and the history).”
Jack the Ripper’s Whitechapel – the VIP Small Group Tour that's had 516 Five-Star reviews*
Thursday, 25 June 2026 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
Mrs Dalloway's London
Friday, 26 June 2026 @ 9.50 am (Click here for more dates)
We walk with Mrs Dalloway. Walk her London. See it with her eyes.
The East India Company – Guided by a Distinguished Diplomat
Friday, 26 June 2026 @ 10.30 am (Click here for more dates)
"London Walks puts you into the hands of an expert on the particular area and topic of a tour" The New York Times
The City Churches Tour
Friday, 26 June 2026 @ 10.30 am (This walk goes every Friday)
"Fan vaulting, Bow bells, a Mediterranean courtyard, a sermon timer and a mighty organ beneath Christopher Wren's most beautiful dome"
William Morris & Friends
Friday, 26 June 2026 @ 10.45 am
"special not least because we'll be walking along one of the loveliest stretches of the Thames"
An MP's Westminster
Friday, 26 June 2026 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
Comes with bragging rights: "I was squired round Westminster by a former Member of Parliament."
British Museum Friday Late – VIP, Small Group Guaranteed
Friday, 26 June 2026 @ 6 pm (Click here for more dates)
"the procession – a long movement of incomparable grace and skill"
Harry Potter Film Locations in the City
Saturday, 27 June 2026 @ 11 am (This walk goes every Saturday)
"And now, Harry, let us pursue that flighty temptress, adventure"
The London of Oscar Wilde Tour
Saturday, 27 June 2026 @ 11 am (This walk goes every Saturday)
The Oscar of our literary walks. "I can resist everything except temptation" Oscar Wilde.
Pirates, Press-Gangs and Execution Dock
Saturday, 27 June 2026 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
Discover the dark side of the empire...
The Krays In London Walking Tour
Sunday, 28 June 2026 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
The East End Gangland & The Dark Side Of The Swinging 60s
Death, Debauchery & Doctors in Soho
Sunday, 28 June 2026 @ 2 pm (This walk goes every Sunday)
The great Soho reveal. Bawdy houses, body snatchers and benevolent doctors through Soho alleyways and past elegant townhouses. Guided by a Doctor.
The Huguenot Silk Weavers of Spitalfields – Riches to Rags
Sunday, 28 June 2026 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
Explores Spitalfields, chronicles the lives and times of the Huguenot silk weavers...
Haunted London
Sunday, 28 June 2026 @ 7.30 pm (This walk goes every Sunday)
"the creepiest part of London... alleyways so old they're cobwebbed with time"
Tate Britain
Monday, 29 June 2026 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Monday)
"I’ve been to a lot of great museums (Met of NY, MOMA, Guggenheim, Louvre, Uffizi, Prado, National Gallery, to name a few) and Rick Jones is the BEST tour guide I have ever had. Period. Full stop." Paul Scheufele
Nooks & Crannies – Unseen Covent Garden
Tuesday, 30 June 2026 @ 10 am
"Covent Garden specialises in hiding the best of itself"
Reel London – Film Locations & Insider Stories, Led by Actors
Tuesday, 30 June 2026 @ 2 pm (Click here for more dates)
London on screen – from spy HQs to cinematic streets...
Undiscovered London, Butlers Wharf and Shad Thames
Wednesday, 01 July 2026 @ 10.45 am (This walk goes every Wednesday)
Four words* that make my blood race: “hasn’t yet been discovered.” *Right up there with hidden places, hidden history
Christopher Wren 300th Anniversary
Wednesday, 01 July 2026 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
A celebration of the works of Sir Christopher Wren 1632-1723
T. S. Eliot – The Waste Land Tour
Wednesday, 01 July 2026 @ 11.30 am (This walk goes every Wednesday)
"in 20 years of London Walks this is the best one I've ever been on"
The Tate Modern Highlights Tour
Wednesday, 01 July 2026 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Wednesday)
"I’ve been to a lot of great museums (Met of NY, MOMA, Guggenheim, Louvre, Uffizi, Prado, National Gallery, to name a few) and Rick Jones is the BEST tour guide I have ever had. Period. Full stop." Paul Scheufele
Gin Lane: William Hogarth and the Gin Craze
Wednesday, 01 July 2026 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Wednesday)
Walk Hogarth’s London and the wild Gin Craze. Explore Covent Garden and St Giles with expert London Walks guide and former Time Out editor Ronnie.
The Tower of London
Thursday, 02 July 2026 @ 10.30 am (Click here for more dates)
"the most important mediaeval fortress in Europe"
The Business of History
Thursday, 02 July 2026 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
Guided by a former MP. Not dusty balance sheets or boardroom jargon, but vivid human drama: ambition, invention, hubris, collapse, survival.
Underneath the Arches
Thursday, 02 July 2026 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Thursday)
"Pubs make you feel good"
Medical Tour: All Around the University – Firsts & Inventions in the History of Medicine
Thursday, 02 July 2026 @ 2.30 pm (This walk goes every Thursday)
Just a little prick… from Edward Jenner to AstraZeneca
Whitehall Exposed
Friday, 03 July 2026 @ 2 pm (Click here for more dates)
Guided by a former surgeon, this is Whitehall opened up — precise, revealing, and not for the squeamish.
The Devil's Acre
Friday, 03 July 2026 @ 2.30 pm
Phwoar! Wrong side of the Westminster tracks – crime, grime and where the bodies are buried
The Rolling Stones In 60s Soho
Saturday, 04 July 2026 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
Celebrating 60 years of the Rolling Stones. Guided by Adam
Happy Birthday America!
Saturday, 04 July 2026 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
The tales’ red glare, the stories bursting in air, gave proof through the walk…
Spies & Special Forces
Saturday, 04 July 2026 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
The glittering whirl of Knightsbridge conceals a shadowy world of modern-day assassins, spies, and special forces.
Tudor London – The City of Wolf Hall
Saturday, 04 July 2026 @ 3 pm (Click here for more dates)
an archaeologist-guided portrait of London in the early 16th-Century
Kew Gardens in Springtime!
Sunday, 05 July 2026 @ 10.45 am
Spring in Kew Gardens. Includes the newly opened, breathtakingly beautiful Temperate House.
The Rebirth of Saxon London – Archaeology Walk
Sunday, 05 July 2026 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
"...although the Anglo-Saxons have a rich history how much of it can be trusted?" Find out on this walk. Guided by Kevin
Jane Austen's London
Sunday, 05 July 2026 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Jane Austen devotee in possession of the good fortune of a couple of free hours must be in want of this walk"
The Regent's Canal - King's Cross, Granary Square, St. Pancras
Tuesday, 07 July 2026 @ 6 pm (Click here for more dates)
"unseen, untrodden, unexplored, unknown London beckons"
Covent Garden Pub Walk
Tuesday, 07 July 2026 @ 6.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
‘where is there such another maze of streets, courts, lanes and alleys?’ asked Dickens
Brook Green – the Secret Side of Hammersmith
Wednesday, 08 July 2026 @ 10.45 am
the fun, the delight of getting to know a London neighbourhood that's a complete revelation
Untold Stories of London's Luxury Hotels
Wednesday, 08 July 2026 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
Glitter and glamour, tales and tricks, famous folk and foibles of another handful of London's most frightfully famous lodgings
On the scene at the Great Fire of London
Wednesday, 08 July 2026 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
Walk the Fire...
Matthew Shardlake's Tudor London
Wednesday, 08 July 2026 @ 2 pm (Click here for more dates)
Through Tudor London in the footsteps of C.J Sansom’s dogged, melancholy ‘hero’ Matthew Shardlake and his ‘sidekick’ Barak
Empire in a Cup: the History of Tea
Thursday, 09 July 2026 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
The history of tea is hidden amongst the City streets and alleyways...
The Secrets of London's Luxury Hotels
Thursday, 09 July 2026 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
"up the red carpet and through the portals into the world of white glove service"
Foodies' London – Pie Crust to Upper Crust
Thursday, 09 July 2026 @ 10.45 am
"People who love to eat are always the best people" Julia Child
The Coffee-House Big Bang
Friday, 10 July 2026 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
David Bowie in 1960s London
Saturday, 11 July 2026 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
Before Ziggy… Before the Thin White Duke… A walking tour of Bowie's Soho 1963-71. Guided by Adam
Notting Hill – the Photography Tour
Saturday, 11 July 2026 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
this one's the amazing technicolour dream strobe of a photography course and tour
Geology and Building Stones in the City of London
Saturday, 11 July 2026 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
Award-winning geologist guides "stones ingrained with geological and historical memories"
Cat Tails – A Feline Take on London History
Sunday, 12 July 2026 @ 10.15 am (Click here for more dates)
"a walk which combines places, people and the cats who lived there"
The Ultimate London Walk – Section 7: Marylebone to central Westminster
Sunday, 12 July 2026 @ 10.30 am (Click here for more dates)
work the passageways till you burst onto New Bond Street with its centuries of high-end spend
Natural History Museum – Dinosaurs, Spies & Deep Time
Sunday, 12 July 2026 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
Discover the science behind the largest animal ever to live...
London – 1066 and All That
Sunday, 12 July 2026 @ 11.30 am
1. "we explore the London that William conquered" 2. "we lay bare how he changed England for all time"
The Street Art Tour
Sunday, 12 July 2026 @ 2 pm (Click here for more dates)
"a corkscrew of a route that pops cork after cork of east London's vibrant, heady, dynamic street art scene"
The Ultimate London Walk – Section 8: Central Westminster to Stockwell
Sunday, 12 July 2026 @ 2.15 pm (Click here for more dates)
from a palace on the north bank it is time to cross to a shoreline once thick with factories on the south
Islington Between the Wars
Sunday, 12 July 2026 @ 2.30 pm
This unusual, highly original walk – indeed, it's sui generis...
Murder, Music & Mystery in Belgravia
Wednesday, 15 July 2026 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
"a neighbourhood purring with secrets"
The Peasants' Revolt Anniversary – 'Summer of Blood'
Wednesday, 15 July 2026 @ 6 pm (Click here for more dates)
follows the events of the Revolt as the Peasants move through London in June 1381
The Wallace Collection – the Jewel in the Velvet Box
Thursday, 16 July 2026 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
A visual – and historical – feast...
The Bridge to London
Thursday, 16 July 2026 @ 6 pm
"most of what has passed has left plenty of traces"
Monsters & Scientists
Friday, 17 July 2026 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
This is London as laboratory – where 19th-century science met gothic imagination and something strange began to stir.
The Siege of Sidney Street 1911 – Immigration and Anarchy in the East End
Saturday, 18 July 2026 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
aka The Siege of Hell Street
London's Spymasters
Saturday, 18 July 2026 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"a murky world of treason & treachery, betrayal & murder"
Hampstead Spies – Philby & Comrades
Sunday, 19 July 2026 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
Guided by former ITN Editor Stewart Purvis CBE. "You got Stewart Purvis to guide Hampstead Spies? That's like getting Dan Rather to guide Dealey Plaza"
Clapham Common – London's Green Frontier
Sunday, 19 July 2026 @ 2 pm (Click here for more dates)
Clapham is an uncommonly interesting common...
The Regent's Canal – Mile End to Limehouse
Sunday, 19 July 2026 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"from the Age of Canals to cutting edge, 21-st century London"
Medieval London
Sunday, 19 July 2026 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"All things in life had about them something glitteringly and cruelly public. The lepers, shaking their rattles..."
King's Cross in Bloom – Secret Gardens, Floating Wildflowers & the Green Revolution
Wednesday, 22 July 2026 @ 2 pm (Click here for more dates)
One of the greenest, leafiest, most unexpectedly beautiful corners of central London...
Dr Ann's Bloomsbury Cocktail
Thursday, 23 July 2026 @ 2 pm
Dr Ann's new walk about the history of big ideas
Rock'n'Roll London Explorer Day – Barnes, Twickenham & Richmond
Friday, 24 July 2026 @ 9.30 am (Click here for more dates)
A Rock'n'Roll day trip to historic southwest London - guided by Adam.
Hampstead Spies – The Atomic Secrets
Saturday, 25 July 2026 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
"the two biggest spy scandals in British history both started in Hampstead"
The Power of the Thames – Battersea to Westminster
Saturday, 25 July 2026 @ 2.30 pm
"with a space-age American embassy tucked in behind it"
The Monument, Moon & Malta: Eastcheap Urban Geology
Saturday, 25 July 2026 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"one of the best places for spotting fossils in the City"
When Horses Ran London
Sunday, 26 July 2026 @ 10.45 am
"how much horsepower each bus route needed – amazing eye-opener into a lost city"
Women of the Abyss – the Victims of Jack the Ripper
Sunday, 26 July 2026 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
"let us not define them only by their deaths"
The Wonderful Women of Marylebone
Wednesday, 29 July 2026 @ 10.45 am
"Marylebone – a magnet for so many inspiring women"
London in the Swinging 60s
Thursday, 30 July 2026 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
Sex, drugs, politics & fashion. "A real storyteller who has you spellbound right from the start" Tripadvisor Sept 2022
Face The Music
Friday, 31 July 2026 @ 6 pm (Click here for more dates)
A music-themed tour of the National Portrait Gallery with Adam
The Cotswolds
Saturday, 01 August 2026 @ 9 am (Click here for more dates)
The achingly beautiful Cotswolds...
The Ultimate London Walk – Section 9: Stockwell to Herne Hill
Saturday, 01 August 2026 @ 10.30 am (Click here for more dates)
Brixton Village - still a place that crosses cultures
The Ultimate London Walk – Section 10: Herne Hill to Sydenham Hill
Saturday, 01 August 2026 @ 2 pm (Click here for more dates)
the estate that shaped this slice of south London
The Decline and Fall of Roman London
Sunday, 02 August 2026 @ 11.15 am
What is the evidence? And can we trust it? Archaeologist-guided.
The Regent's Canal: King's Cross to Canal Museum Circular Tour (includes visit to Museum)
Sunday, 02 August 2026 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
London’s canals have a fascinating story to tell – and it flows through here...
Full Steam Ahead – Railways, Reading Rooms & Remains
Thursday, 06 August 2026 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
...lost communities, grand Victorian ambition and the show-stopping Midland Grand Hotel.
Foodies' London - The West End
Friday, 07 August 2026 @ 10.45 am
"the King's nickname was Tumtum, he had a 47" waist, and every night a cold roast chicken was placed beside his bedside..."
Old Dulwich Village
Sunday, 09 August 2026 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
Dulwich is a world – a hamlet – unto itself. There's no other place like it in London. Be sure to bring your camera.
Bath & Avebury
Tuesday, 11 August 2026 @ 9 am (Click here for more dates)
Back 250 years...and then 5,000 years
Tudor London – Walking with Matthew Shardlake (and Barak)
Wednesday, 19 August 2026 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
"hasn’t changed in 400 years"
Wild & Wonderful Women of Westminster
Wednesday, 19 August 2026 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
Wild & Wonderful Women of Westminster guided by a wild and wonderful woman doctor...
Lawyer-guided Legal London – Inns of Court Exclusive
Friday, 21 August 2026 @ 1.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
Tom's a barrister, Joanne's a criminal defence lawyer. Small group guaranteed.
The Ultimate London Walk – Section 11: Sydenham Hill to Anerley
Saturday, 22 August 2026 @ 10.30 am (Click here for more dates)
the 1851 Great Exhibition had an after-party, it’s called Crystal Palace Park
The Ultimate London Walk – Section 12: Anerley to South Norwood
Saturday, 22 August 2026 @ 2.15 pm (Click here for more dates)
rewilding isn’t so new - here’s a wonderful wilderness
London, A Heart of Stone
Sunday, 23 August 2026 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"a feast of stunning art and architecture"
John Constable & the Hampstead Romantics – Artist-guided Anniversary Walk
Tuesday, 25 August 2026 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
Guide Matthew Devereaux is also a landscape painter...
The Ultimate London Walk – Section 13: South Norwood to Addington Hill
Saturday, 05 September 2026 @ 10.30 am (Click here for more dates)
it’s a steep climb up Addington Hill, but the payback is a panorama of London spread before you
Chaucer's Medieval London
Saturday, 05 September 2026 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
Your boon companions on this tour of London in the Middle Ages are a former London Museum archaeologist and the greatest medieval poet of them all.
The Ultimate London Walk – Section 14: Addington Hill to New Addington
Saturday, 05 September 2026 @ 2.15 pm (Click here for more dates)
through Selsdon Wood and you’re through with London, Surrey is beaming at you, beckoning...
Musical Statues
Sunday, 06 September 2026 @ 10.45 am
What does history SOUND like? A musical walk around Westminster's statues with Adam
Roman London – A Literary & Archaeological Walk
Sunday, 06 September 2026 @ 3 pm
Archaeologist-guided!
Queen Elizabeth II – the Centenary Walk
Tuesday, 08 September 2026 @ 10 am (Click here for more dates)
A centenary walk rich in pageantry, personality and private moments – regal, human and deeply loved.
Foodies London in the City – Biscuits & Banquets
Wednesday, 09 September 2026 @ 10.45 am
"People who love to eat are always the best people" Julia Child
Fabulous Fitzrovia & Its Medical Marvels
Wednesday, 09 September 2026 @ 1 pm (Click here for more dates)
"hear about growing mini eyes to understand blindness among other medical marvels..." These and other tales make the scales fall from our eyes.
Rock'n'Roll Chelsea
Sunday, 13 September 2026 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
Rock'n'Roll Chelsea. Guided by Adam
Fables, Fashions & Feasts
Sunday, 13 September 2026 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"200 years in 2 hours"
The Ultimate London Walk – Section 1: Hadley Wood to High Barnet
Tuesday, 15 September 2026 @ 10.30 am
This is it. The start line of an epic journey across the capital...
Secret London Gardens, South Side – the Four Seasons
Tuesday, 15 September 2026 @ 2 pm (Click here for more dates)
"suddenly – miraculously – you're in another London"
The Ultimate London Walk – Section 2: High Barnet to Woodside Park
Tuesday, 15 September 2026 @ 2.15 pm
a land London left behind
The Ultimate London Walk – Section 3: Woodside Park to Mill Hill East
Wednesday, 16 September 2026 @ 10.30 am (Click here for more dates)
the green lane still weaves through the old field pattern
The Ultimate London Walk – Section 4: Mill Hill East to Golders Green
Wednesday, 16 September 2026 @ 2 pm (Click here for more dates)
thank the pioneers of Garden Cities for this walk
The Ultimate London Walk – Section 5: Golders Green to South End Green
Friday, 18 September 2026 @ 10.30 am (Click here for more dates)
walking through the gate of the Hill Garden could astonish you
The Ultimate London Walk – Section 6: South End Green to Marylebone
Friday, 18 September 2026 @ 2.15 pm (Click here for more dates)
enjoy the pavement cafes of Primrose Hill before climbing to that view at the summit
Cambridge - "can such places be?"
Tuesday, 22 September 2026 @ 9 am (Click here for more dates)
"Miraculum orbis. Wonder of the world, annexe to heaven..."
Frozen Music – The City of London Architecture Walk
Tuesday, 22 September 2026 @ 2 pm (Click here for more dates)
Sculpture in the sky...
Sherlock Holmes - Virtual Tour
Sunday, 27 September 2026 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
'The Game's Afoot!' Follow the fascinating adventures of Holmes and Watson (and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) around London's West End. Guided by Richard IV
City of London Architecture – Exploring the West Side
Wednesday, 30 September 2026 @ 2 pm
They're like plumes in amongst serried ranks of suits of armour
Women in Medicine – Guided by a Surgeon
Thursday, 01 October 2026 @ 11 am (Click here for more dates)
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..."
A History of Rock & Pop Part 2: Rock'n'Roll Covent Garden
Saturday, 10 October 2026 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
The history of Rock and Pop in the West End.
Elizabethan Clerkenwell
Sunday, 11 October 2026 @ 2.30 pm
Now a chic London neighbourhood but then 'a haunt of thieves and whores'
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 City's Lost Gardens, North Side – the Four Seasons
Tuesday, 20 October 2026 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
Step inside and the City changes...
Ghosts of the Old City on Halloween
Sunday, 25 October 2026 @ 4 pm (Click here for more dates)
All the Ghosts come out for Halloween!
A History of Rock & Pop Part 5: Rock'n'Roll Chelsea
Saturday, 31 October 2026 @ 10.45 am (Click here for more dates)
Rock'n'Roll Chelsea. Guided by Adam
Spies & Spymasters of London – Virtual Tour
Sunday, 08 November 2026 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
Top Secret London. Cambridge Five. ‘C’. Secret Service Bureau. OSS & SOE. Le Carré & Smiley. Somerset Maugham & Ashenden. Guided by Richard IV For Your Eyes Only.
Up the Cally – Where History Misbehaves
Sunday, 15 November 2026 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"An amazingly varied walk..."
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.
CHARLES DICKENS’ LONDON: LOST AND FOUND: a London Walks virtual tour
Sunday, 29 November 2026 @ 7 pm (Click here for more dates)
"Dickens' London was a place of the mind, but it was also a real place. Much of what we take today to be the marvelous imaginings of a visionary novelist turn out on inspection to be the reportage of a great observer"
Secret History of London's Railway Stations
Thursday, 03 December 2026 @ 10 am
Tours available upon request
We run a ton of private walks. If you to go on any of the walks below, it’s eezy peezy as well. Just give Fiona, Peter, Niamh or Mary a ring on 020 7624 3978 – or email us at [email protected] and we’ll set it up for you and make it happen.
The Hidden Forces of the City
The secret – and strange – science of London's streets...
The First Blitz – Zeppelin London
They came like silver whales through the night sky, bringing the war to London’s doorstep.
ZEPPELIN NIGHT
London discovered a new terror: death from above.
Christmas Lights Walk
Bring your Christmas spirit – and maybe your sunglasses. London’s going to shine.
Christmas in the City
God bless us, every one.
Soho Comedy Pub Walk
the famous and infamous who have entertained and outraged us
The Ultimate London Walk
It's like the first Everest ascent – no one has done this before.
Local London – Highwaymen to Hamburgers
"we get serious about going off piste"
The Great Rock'n'Roll Pub Quiz Walk – Camden Edition
The return of Adam's Pub Quiz walks for summer 2025
The Great Rock'n'Roll Pub Quiz Walk - Covent Garden Edition
The return of Adam's Pub Quiz walks for summer 2025
The Great Rock'n'Roll Pub Quiz Walk - Soho Edition
The return of Adam's Pub Quiz Walks for summer 2025
The Embankment Story
an eye-opener exploring the centuries of struggle between the force of the river and the city’s determination to control and embank it
VE Day Walking Tour
"the passion of former days"
Lights, Camera, London
"guaranteed small group, lots of individual attention – and if you want we can get seriously geeky about the art of black and white photography"
The Civil War, Restoration & Great Fire of London Virtual Tour
Civil War, beheading of the King, a Republic, the Restoration, the last great plague outbreak in the UK, the Glorious Revolution and the Great Wind.
Charles I and the Civil War – the Martyrdom Anniversary Walk
The transformative events of that unforgettable day...
A Virtual Tour of Jane Austen's Bath
As good as it gets: the world’s most perfect Georgian city and scenes from Jane Austen's life and fiction
The Beggar's Opera
Of Pimps & Politicians. High culture and low life in 18th Century London. Guided by Adam
London & the Nutcracker – the Ballet that Changed Christmas
The Russians came, they saw, they Nutcrackered (danced), they conquered.
THE LONDON SEASON – Living it up in Mayfair & St James's
a chance to get up close to a lifestyle that’s often mythologized but rarely examined
Decoding the City – Secret Stories & Symbols
"I never knew this was here" London
Censored and Forbidden
The walking tour history tried to cancel – blasphemy, classified secrets, and scandals...
Mayflower Thanksgiving Special
The Thanksgiving Day walk where the Pilgrims began their journey. And Thanksgiving dinner at the historic old Mayflower Pub!
National Portrait Gallery Friday Late – VIP, Small Group Guaranteed
“looking at a portrait transcends time and provides a unique encounter between the viewer and the sitter”
The Monday Night Music History Club
A brand NEW series of six monthly virtual tours for autumn & winter 2024/25. Hosted by Adam
Shakespeare's Bankside – Bishops, Brothels & Bear Baiting
taverns, gambling dens, bear baiting, brothels and theatres
Suffragists, Suffragettes – 'Dare to be Free'
History Lost, Found & Decoded...
Justice Miscarried – Let's Deliver for the Postmasters
"the first duty of society is justice"
The Children of Outcast London
It’s a terrible story, it’s a moving story, it will grip you.
River Wandle & Wandsworth Canal
"there's no lovelier piece of lowland scenery in South England..."
Curtain Up: Theatreland with a Distinguished Actor – Read the Reviews!
"really entertaining"
The Leap Year Walk
A strange amazing day – and walk – that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not "exist."
Gamechangers! The people and events that changed Westminster – and the world.
Turning points in history
Building and Rebuilding the Thames Embankment
"From The Thames to Eternity" guided by a distinguished, award-winning Geologist
Geology and Building Stones in the City of Westminster
Guided by a distinguished, award-winning Geologist
Urban Geology in St Giles
"particularly exotic and colourful stones" guided by a distinguished, award-winning Geologist
A Charles Dickens Christmas Virtual Tour – his life, his work & his London
Weaves an exploration of Victorian London with Dickens's London Life and writing...
Sherlock Holmes in the City
We go on the trail in the Square Mile, seeing a surprising amount that Holmes and Watson would still recognise.
The Christmas Trees of London – A Sparkling New Walk
London adazzle – its most glorious constellation of Christmas trees...
Roman London
What did the Romans ever do for us? We know what guide Ian does for the Ukraine and earthquake crisis appeals – he donates his fee.
A Literary Odyssey – Ink & Inspiration in Mayfair & St James's
This walk has been specially created for the Mayfair Times Literary Festival. The charge for this walk is £20 (there are no concessions).
Mountain Building & Meteorites – the City a professional geologist sees
Rocks of Ages – Urban Geology in the City (guided by a professional geologist)
Myths & Legends of London May Day Special Virtual Tour
"we look at evidence for 'Celtic' origins of London and how May Day was celebrated in London"
Pioneering Paddington
"from the deep past to a vision of the future"
The Quack Doctor's Tour
"the general rule in medicine in Stuart England is ‘better out than in’"
The Rugby Tour – to Accompany the Six Nations Tournament
"with a fine disregard for the rules"
London Before London – Prehistoric London Virtual Tour
henges, barrows, hill forts, hut circles and genetic evidence
The London Winter Solstice Virtual Tour
we use ancient methods to divine what is in store for us in 2026
19th Century East End – Jews, Anarchists & Workers' Rights
...incendiary publications, industrial strife, revolutionary trade unions, soup kitchens, housing charities and shelters for the homeless.
Hampstead's Other Half
"more about those forgotten than those remembered"
The Actress and the King
"the first great comedienne..."
The Grand Union Canal – Kensal Green to Alperton
"there are places along the towpath that are little changed"
Grand Surrey Canal – Rotherhithe, Russia Dock Woodland, Greenland Dock
We could be in 1620. Or May 28, 1940. Or June 6, 1944.
River Lee Navigation – Enfield to Ponders End
"the source and inspiration for one of the great classics of English literature"
The Lost Palace of Downing Street
Take a walk through the most magical corner of the kingdom. Guided by Dan Parry
The London Equinox and Solstice Walk
As the Sun and Moon move around our skies we look at how Londoners organised and celebrated their year throughout history. Guided by Kevin
St David's Day Welsh Walk – by the distinguished Welsh author Rick Jones
"where they sang, wrote poetry and played rugby"
International Women's Day Charity Walk
Trailblazers of the East End – Guided by Laura
The History & Archaeology of London Bridge
"London bridge is the key to much of the history of London"
Myths & Legends – the Halloween Virtual Tour
"and we do some serious archaeology – attend to the legend-archaeology 'fit'"
How the British Fell in Love with Curry
"The national dish is no longer fish and chips, it's curry"
Charles Dickens Christmas Festival - Castle, Cathedral, Carols, Costumed Characters, Parade, Reindeer, Guaranteed Snow
The best Dickens Christmas Festival in the world!
Christmas with Jane Austen Virtual London Tour
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Jane Austen devotee must be in want of this virtual tour"
Myths, Legends & Halloween Walk
The walk tells the story of London's myths , legends and the celtic origins of Halloween. Guided by Kevin
London's Burning – The Anniversary Walk
The blaze illuminated the streets like the sun at noon. Even the night sky bore a fiery aspect, like the top of a burning oven. The trailing column of smoke extended 50 miles in length.
Murder Most Foul – The London Life & Crimes of Agatha Christie
"as English as Buckingham Palace or The Tower of London"
An American in London: Famous Visitors from Across the Pond
Guided by the author of The Lonely Planet Guide to London
Immigration and Food Walk
Almost a third of all Londoners are now foreign-born, representing 270 different nationalities and 300 languages. Guided by Steve F
London Myths, Legends & Halloween Virtual Walk – Archaeology Rules OK!
“Tis the night—the night. Of the grave's delight"
Horses Past, Horses Present – Horse Power in London Society
"reveals the vast importance of horses in asserting the position of those in power"
The Music Of Royal London
Scandal! Adultery! Big Bangs! Our royal story is an opera in itself. Guided by Adam.
Harlots & Bawds - the Georgian sex trade.
Alex takes a look at the world of the 18th Century sex and brothel trade.
Chaucer's London to Beckett's Canterbury – a Virtual Pilgrimage
"the robust independence with which the English led their lives following the Black Death"
The Slavery in the City Virtual Tour
A story showing people at their worst and best, tells the horrors of the slave trade, the extreme cruelties and yet contains seeds of hope. Guided by Isobel
Saints, Sinners and Sisters
Tradeswomen, writers, lawyers, feminists, martyrs, muses and murderers: women’s stories aren’t always nice, nor are they niche.
Jane Austen's London – the London of 1809
A Jane Austen tour based on an 1809 guidebook to London
Coronation Special: Royal Bastards, England's true life game of thrones
Ever since William the Conqueror (aka William the Bastard) hit the scene in 1066, legitimacy has been a life or death issue for the Royals. Guided by Ian
London on Film Part 1: Frozen in Time in the Square Mile
The old City of London has been a haven for moviemakers for over a century, and here are some of the glorious highlights. Guided by Richard IV
The Decline & Fall of Roman London – Archaeology Virtual Tour
"The first British Brexit?"
Chaucer's Medieval London – A Virtual Tour
Your boon companions on this tour of London in the Middle Ages are a Museum of London archaeologist and the greatest medieval poet of them all... Guided by Kevin
Bless me! deliver me, help, hold me!
"tiny gas-lit alleyways, unknown even to many Londoners..." N.B. Guide Ian donates all of his fee to charities!
Ring in the New Year Virtual Tour
How London has celebrated the New Year over the past 2000 years – and some crystal ball action for 2025
Saints Sinners Sisters
To mark International Women's Day
Virtual Walk: Sherlock Holmes & Conan Doyle at Christmas
An affectionate Yuletide offering from the glory days of the Great Detective and his creator...
The London of Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol
An affectionate celebration of the real places behind this timeless classic. A revealing virtual tour of the City Dickens knew so well.
The Archaeology of London
This walk tells the epic tale of the uncovering of London's past by Archaeologists...
Great Balls of Fire
Temperatures of more than 1000° meant everything was consumed in the inferno...
How the West End Was Won
How a capital city emerged fit to rule the greatest empire the world had ever known...
Whitehall Affray – Statues of Discord
"he was so angry he ended up sculpting a horse urinating"
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..."
Shakespeare Anniversary/St George's Day Charity Walk
"William the Conqueror!" "Once more unto the breach dear friends" – you the walkers and guide Ian and London Walks fighting the good fight – every penny this walk brings in goes to the Teenage Cancer Trust
Slow-Speed Trail of High-Speed Rail
Whoa! Wow! Peekaboo HS2 & Javelin
Golden Hour, Blue Light & London at Night Photography Tour
"Some of the best – and most famous – night-time views in Europe"
The Arsenal Story
Walk the same streets as Colin Firth in Fever Pitch...
Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley in Somers Town
"a place of poverty and political exiles and refugees and revolutionaries"
Tomfoolery – Tom Lehrer's London
The wild card in the London Walks deck. Guided by a London Mayor. "no sense of taste or decorum"
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.
MEDICAL SOUTHWARK
Doctor-guided.
St. Albans – "an England in miniature, an essence of England" Home of the Hot Cross Bun
“This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England"
London 1902 - 1916: Seedbed of the Russian Revolution
St. Petersburg on Thames – the cradle of the Russian Revolution. Guided by a fetching young Russian historian.
Highbury – Grand Houses & Grander Stadiums
History, architecture, films, the Gunners, a Ripper candidate and for good measure, a short nature walk
Monarchs and Maladies
"their excesses, their maladies, their treatment, their cadres of medical attendants, their post-mortems..." Guided by a Physician
The Grand Union Canal – Little Venice & Paddington Green
"a secret corner of London closed to the public for 200 years"
The Peasants' Revolt Anniversary Virtual Tour
"see the invisible and understand the inscrutable"
Regent's Canal – Islington to Mile End
Jollying our way along a handsome, tree-lined canal on a sunny Sunday afternoon. Perfect.
Hampstead New Year's Eve Walk - Then See the Fireworks from the Roof of London
Watch the Fireworks from the Roof of London. Auld lang syne in auld Hampstead.
The Sherlock Holmes Christmas Walk
We follow the crisscrossing paths of Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson as they solve their only original Christmas-time case, and Arthur Conan Doyle as he reaches a crisis in his professional life.
The Guy Fawkes Tour – Gunpowder, Treason & 5th of November Plot
"Guy Fawkes was hanged, cut down while still alive, castrated, disembowelled... onlookers were never able to forget that he was conscious throughout the process"
Eastcheap & the Tower – Reading the Stones (Urban Geology with UCL Geologist Dr Ruth Siddall)
Urban Geology < Fossils, Volcanoes, Seas, Asteroids and Time
London in Poetry
Free booklet of London poems. Double act. David guides. RSC actor Steve performs the poems.
The Isle of Dogs
"there’s no other place like it in London"
Limehouse - Thames - Docklands
"part gentrified, part solidly working class"
Embankment Permutations
"London is stranger than fiction"
Doctors' London – Guided by a Physician
Doctors' London – Pox & Plague, Leeches & Quacks. Guided by a Physician.
Charming Chiswick
Old, picturesque, storied, full of character, riverine, tucked away on its isthmus, sitting pretty – that’s Chiswick.
Classic London Mews & Hidden Passageways
Urban oases, havens of 19th-century tranquillity
Karl Marx in London – Walkers of the World Unite!
Walkers of the World Unite!
Unexpected London
"secret places and hidden interiors"
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 Lure of the Underground
"subterranean London...London created the Underground and the Underground created London"
The Knifeman Tour - Hunterian Museum
Follow Dr Barry Walsh in footsteps of the famous surgeon Dr John Hunter
Slavery & the City
"No country profited more from slavery and the slave trade..."
Secret Islands of Green – Hidden Gardens of the City
The green in the grey – the hidden gardens of the City of London.
Walworth Old & New
Open Studios Day in 'the seriously hip artists' quarter'
Fair Maids, Feminists & Philanthropists
To mark Women's History Month... and timed for an après walk visit to Borough Market!
Docklands
"...the most extraordinary letter in London's alphabet"
Cholera & Casanova
"Sex and death, the two subjects everybody's interested in..." Guided by a Physician
Christmas Morning, 1660 - Samuel Pepys' London
"When Christmas came back to London"
Bohemian Fitzrovia
Fitzrovia: central London's best-kept secret
Belgravia Pub Walk
"best medley of lost lanes and hidden passageways in all of London"
The World of Belgravia – its palaces, its secrets, its hidden byways
...this place breathes money
"Bond, James Bond" – The London of 007 & Ian Fleming
"Shaken not stirred"