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…
LONDON'S SECRET VILLAGE
2.30 pm on Mondays from St. Paul'sTube, exit 2
There's
no need to book. A London Walk takes about two hours and costs £10 or £8 for
concs. (kids under 15 accompanied by their parent[s] go free)
The ancient, hidden village of Clerkenwell
clings to a hillside barely a stone's throw away from St. Paul's Cathedral. Its
very name - the clerks", or students", spring - is redolent of
antiquity; and indeed this tiny hamlet serves up brimming draughts from the
deep well of its history. Mystery plays and plague pits; riots and rookeries;
bodysnatching and bombing; jousting and jesters; bloodshed and burnings; monks,
murder, and medicine: Clerkenwell has a tale or two to tell. Tracing its narrow
alleyways and ancient squares, we take in here a Norman church; there a
magnificent Tudor gateway; round that corner venerable Charterhouse, London's
only surviving mediaeval monastic complex; let alone Hercule Poirot's London
flat and the trendiest house in town.
The "London's Secret Village"
Walk takes place every Monday afternoon at 2.30 pm.
Meet just outside exit 2 of St. Paul's Tube.
St. Paul'sTube is on the Central Line
Guided by Kim, Steve or Andy R.










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