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We can tailor-make walks for up to 25 people.  If you are a Group Leader, please contact us, tell us what you would like to see and we will do our best to ensure you have an interesting walk.

If we know there are going to be children on a walk, we bring along Shep, a large Old English Sheepdog hand puppet that we use to teach the children road safety.

Children of all ages are welcome.

Find hidden gems in the Byways and Alleys, Streets, Courts, Lanes and Avenues of the City on our Walk:

Walk One: 

'2000 years in Two Hours'

Beginning at Tower Hill Tube Station and ending at Cannon Street Station; we will meet you by the black telephone box outside the station.  The walk will take between 1 1/2 to 2 hours.

Veni, Vidi, Vici  (I came, I saw, I conquered) so said Julius Caesar - but did he actually do it?  How far did the Roman city stretch?  Where was there a Governor's Palace? where did they bathe? Most importantly, why did they choose this particular place to site their city?

Did you know there are no 'roads' in the City of London?  There are Streets, Alleys, Courts, Ways, Hills, Lanes, Rows and Avenues.

On this walk we shall see:

The Roman Wall; Julius Caesar or Claudius?

Memorial to fallen Seamen; plus the Falklands Memorial

Execution site on Tower Hill; Hanged, Drawn and Quartered, but only if you were a commoner

All Hallows by the Tower; Ever wondered who started Toc H?

Bakers' Hall, a Livery Company; White Bakers, Brown Bakers, Winston Churchill

St Dunstan's in the East; Wren's favourite church tower

Lovat Lane; A good example of a Medieval City Street

St. Margaret Pattens; A parish church in the City

A Camel Train;  in London?

The Monument, which has recently reopened for visitors and commemorates the Great Fire of London 1666;

Change Alley; Early trading houses

The Royal Exchange;   Dealing and trading

The Bank of England;  Bank notes and Bullion

Mansion House;  Home of The Lord Mayor

St. Stephen's Walbrook; The Good Samaritan

LIFFE statue; street furniture near Cannon Street Station.

Walk Two:   

'Heroes and Villains'

This walk will begin at the east side of the City Information Centre (CIC) and end back at St. Paul's Cathedral and will take about 1 1/2 to 2 hours.

St. Paul's Cross;  Illegitimate births and defrocked clergy

Paternoster Square;  Where is there a noon mark?

Cutlers' Hall; Ancient Livery Companies in Modern Times

The Old Bailey;  Justice, Trials and Secret Passages

St. Sepulchre's Church;  Crusaders to the Holy Land and Stained Glass Windows

Giltspur Street; Watch Tower, Golden Boy and the Great Fire of London 1666

St. Bartholomew's Hospital;  Rahere, Henry VIII and Hogarth paintings

Smithfield;  Markets, Martyrs, Jousts and Knights

St. Bartholomew the Great;  Four Weddings and a Funeral!

Butchers' Hall;  Ancient Customs with Modern Traders

Postman's Park;  Open Spaces and Unsung Heroes

St. Paul's Cathedral;  Architecture and Iconic History

Walk Three: 

'All People Great and Small'

This walk will last 1 1/2 to 2 hours and will begin at Cannon Street Station and end at Guildhall.  We will meet you outside the main entrance to Cannon Street Station.  To get there when the tube is not running, the numbers 15 and 17 bus run along Cannon Street and stop almost outside the Station.  The 242 and 25 stop in Cheapside and it's a short walk to Cannon Street station from there.

St. Stephen Walbrook: Chad Varrah

Dowgate Hill; Livery Companies

St. Michael Paternoster;  Richard 'Dick' Whittington

St. James Garlickhythe;  Saint James; Santiago de Compostela

Cleary Gardens;  Fred Cleary Open Spaces in the City

Millennium Bridge; Norman Foster, architect (Baron Foster of Thames Bank), Sir Anthony Caro

Blitz Memorial; Firemen/women and Firewatchers of the Blitz WWII

City Information Centre; 

St. Paul's Cathedral;  Sir Christopher Wren, Nelson, Wellington

Goldsmiths' Hall;  Hallmark

Noble Street;  Welcome to Londoninium, Boadicea!

Wood Street;  Policemen/Women; horses; iconic buildings ancient and modern

St. Mary Aldermanbury;  Shakespeare, Churchill

The Guildhall;  Master Mason John Croxton

Livery Companies

What role do the Medieval Livery Companies play in today's City of London?  For more information, go to our page dedicated to the Livery Companies and discover their relevancy in today's world.

Each walk will last approx 1 1/2 to 2 hours* and costs £6 per person;

concessions for over 60s; children under 12 FREE

* wear comfortable shoes