There are many sites and sights that you can visit on one of the London walks that are on offer.

If you are enjoying a Walk in Westminster, for example, why not stop in to Westminster Abbey.

The Abbey is the Coronation church and it is the place where almost all of England’s monarchs have been crowned.

On our Westminster London walks we tell the story of the Coronation of William 1st in the Abbey.

He was crowned here on Christmas Day 1066. It was very significant that he chose the area directly in front of Edward the Confessor’s tomb as the location for his coronation within Westminster Abbey. This was William reiterating his right to the English throne.

Evidently The Norman apetite for pillage and plunder was still not sated by the time of William’s coronation.

As the shouts of acclamation rang out around the Abbey at the moment when the crown was placed on William’s head, the Norman troops outside made the presumption that a riot had broken out.

It is quite interesting that they didn’t storm in to the Abbey to protect William, but rather they set fire to the surrounding houses and slaughtered yet more of the conquored Anglo Saxons!

Our Westminster London walks explore the streets where all this happened and tell the story of that tumultous year, 1066, which saw three King’s rule over England.