Walks are one of the best ways to see London. Bus tours don’t provide the opportunity to take a peek behind the scenes, to peel pack the layers of history and really look at London’s past.

If you wanted to put together your own London walks your best way to do so is to focus on an area (Google maps is great for this) and locate buildings that seem interesting. A church, an old pub, anything really that you can focus on.

Having got the focus for your walk of London, the next thing to do is have a look at smaller streets that run between larger streets. In places like Belgravia and Chelsea these are invariably very attractive mews, lined by properties that are now much sought after but which in the 18th and 19th centuries were the homes and stables for the coach men who serviced the large houses that surround them.

To step into these places is to be pitched back in time and you can often discover something that really makes it your tour of discovery.

In the City of London walks can take in a terrifice variety of old alleyways and historic passages where you can just feel the history seeping from its walls.

To walk through these old alleyways is a joy and, again, you can plot your own London walks in the City using Google maps to located buildings that seem interesting and between which you can plot routes that soon become time travelling vooyages of discovery.

If you don’t want to do it yourself then why not join one of our regular London walks?

Every night we offer a Jack the Ripper Tour and on Fridays and Saturdays we do our ever popular London Ghost Walks.