On your journey you will learn about London's finest palaces, historic houses and murky drinking dens, visiting unscrupulous politicians, literary figures, scientific heroes, notorious criminals, and stars of the stage and screen along the way.Our itinerary suggestions and expert author picks of things to see and do will make it a perfect companion, both ahead of your trip and on the ground. This guide book to London contains 46 walks in this new edition and 5 of them are completely new walks. so one can refer back to it and especially for people who do not know London it will be a pleasant reference sheet.

Richard's walking tours cover a wide variety of different neighbourhoods and themes and each one has been mapped out to ensure that almost every second of the walk is crammed with interesting and fascinating locations and stories. Apt because in the Introduction I use the image of a lamp lighter: “London Walks guides are, after a fashion, latter-day gas-lamp lighters. But, scratch the surface, delve into the backstreets, the hidden courtyards and the tucked away alleyways and you will soon discover that there is much more to London than the well known, and well trodden tourist haunts. Following any of the 12 walks featured in each book will allow the user to walk in the footsteps of authors and statesmen, murderers and revolutionaries.A nondescript piece of street furniture, that you might not even notice from a coach, can be your key to unlocking the past, enabling you to connect with the everyday lives of long ago citizens. Walking London is the essential companion for any urban explorer—whether visitor or native—committed to discovering the true heart of one of the world's greatest capital cities. If you go private you can have Hidden London – or any other London Walk – on a day and at a time that suits your convenience. This new edition of London's Hidden Walks Volume 1 is packed with interesting details about London's history, from personal tales to the social and economic history of the capital city. This one, which is an updated version of an earlier edition, is just as good as the others that I have.

In any case, isn’t Rome the city of Seven Hills, and San Francisco the location for the plunging downhill car chase in Bullitt? We are Londoners, and the first thing we think of when we have a free day is going on a London Walk. The routes have details about the city’s architecture and history, so they’re great for learning while you walk.

The completion of the full circle of London Overground provides Iain Sinclair with a new path to walk the shifting territory of the capital. Features inspirational colour photography, including the stunning Regents Canal and spectacular Kensington Gardens. uk/media/catalog/product/1/2/12093991---joolz-guides--rather-splendid-london-walks---1200x1200px---_c_-n-_2_. Exploring secret London – up creeping lanes, round out-of-the-way corners, past veiled islands of green – Shaughan’s at his inimitable best.