Suggested historical London walks
We are off on another little historical day trip from London, this time to the town of Hastings! It took me just under two hours to get there by train and you pull in right in the centre of town. Here is a map of the route I took: Hastings Castle To begin it was […]
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King’s Cross is an absolutely fascinating area, packed with history and industrial heritage. It was once a crucial industrial hub for Victorian London, receiving and distributing goods and coal from the North. After a period of decay and decline after World War Two, it has recently, in the last ten years or so, undergone rapid
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For this walk I have partnered up with Footways, a fantastic social enterprise that encourage walking as the best way to see and explore the city. They have an online map of interconnected, interesting and quieter walking routes through London but also have physical maps you can buy. I used the map to walk from
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London is, by UN standards, an ‘urban forest’. The sheer number of trees and the huge array of delightful open spaces, means that when Autumn comes around, London is an explosion of reds, yellows and oranges. Here are 10 stunning spots to explore in London in Autumn, along with, of course, the history behind them.
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London has many ‘lost’ rivers, that have played a huge role in defining the landscape of the city: the hills, the valleys, the shapes of roads. They are now predominantly buried in pipes under the streets of modern London. The city’s most famous lost river is the River Fleet. The name Fleet comes from the
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