Every Sunday we’ll
pluck just one walk from the vast London
Walks
repertoire
and put it centre
stage.
But if you only take one walking tour this week, why
not make it…
OLD HIGHGATE VILLAGE - "a place
apart"
1.45 pm on Sundays from Highgate Tube Meet in the booking hall
(Highgate Tube is on the branch of the
Northern Line that goes toward High Barnet/Mill Hill East)
What kind of sorcery is this? We're just a
few stops up the Northern Line, but we're in a country village nestling round
what was once an old pond. Yes, we've taken a brief tube journey into timeless
England. Here are lanes and cottages and Georgian houses and spectacular views
across London. Here are Coleridge, Dickens, Betjeman, Cromwell, Nell Gwyn, Dick
Whittington, Yehudi Menuhin, George Michael, Annie Lennox, and Sting. And after
the walk, there's Highgate Cemetery ("one of the most astonishing places
in London...architecture's answer to Hieronymus Bosch") or, on its wooded
slope on the Heath, Kenwood House. In short, this is the perfect London Walk
for a fine Sunday afternoon. But keep it under your hat, because if the word
got out Highgate would be a major tourist attraction!
The Old Highgate Village Walk takes place
every Sunday at 1.45 pm from Highgate Tube.
Meet Brian or Tom in the station booking
hall.
A
London Walk costs £9 – £7 concession. To join a London Walk, simply meet your
guide at the designated tube station at the appointed time. Details of all
London Walks can be found at www.walks.com.








