A raft of influential creators who transformed British design and typography – including William Morris, Emery Walker, Edward Johnston and Eric Gill all lived in Hammersmith. Explore the area's artistic and political legacy in a walk combining beauty and usefulness.

Most journeys in cities like London take place because of need rather than choice. 'A walk to work' traces an epitome of such a compulsory journey - the daily commute and pinpoints the unexpected beauties in the backgrounds of the everyday.

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Tranquil Clerkenwell, so close to the bustling City has a distinct character and intriguing history. Once centred around great religious houses, the area has been the scene of fierce rebellion, innovative architecture, and major commerce.

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Join me on a walk through the architecture of entertainment and mass communication, exploring the stories behind a diverse range of iconic buildings and their role in asserting London's status as a globally connected, cultural powerhouse.

Various architects

As a modernist 1960s development designed around extensive waterways and pedestrian routes, Thamesmead is also a perfect place for cycling. This cycle tour will take you deep into the 'Town of the 21st Century'. Highlights also include Grade I-listed Crossness Pumping Station and Lesnes Abbey ruins.

A bicycle tour of public libraries and bookshops from Bloomsbury to the East End celebrating the institutions which keep books circulating and the buildings which bring readers and writers together. Over the course of the tour, we’ll see how architects working across a range of building styles express the ideals of their bookish institutions.

Edmonton has been described as a working class suburb but there are now signs of growing affluence, a result of regeneration and some might say the neighbourhood is ripe for gentrification. The walk will explore a variety of neighbourhoods.

Join your tour guide for a tour of Hawksmoor’s finest church, Christ Church, Spitalfields, where we’ll unlock the history of this fascinating area and building, as well as learning a new skill; how to ‘read’ a church. Covering the controversial myth about Hawksmoor and the occult, the tour will explain the social context of the construction of this church and its architectural importance.

Nicholas Hawksmoor, 1729

Hampstead Garden Suburb was a planned community for all classes, including a growing number of single working women. On this walk we will explore the variety of housing designed specifically for women including communal living and training facilities.

This walking tour around Kennington focuses on housing projects and particularly those developed by the Duchy Estate before and after World War I. The walk will provide an insight into the way public housing contributes to the mix of inhabitants in this sometimes forgotten area of London – drawing comparisons in relation to London as a whole.

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Huguenots had a huge impact on London’s culture, commerce and industry from the 17th century onwards. But how much do we really know about them? During this walk we will discover and explore the history of Spitalfields.

This walk focuses on industry, creativity and change in Hackney Wick and Fish Island, exploring how regeneration and gentrification have transformed the area.

A tour exploring transformative new developments that are – as one advert puts it – ‘built on London’s history’. It will look at how sites such as Goodluck Hope, London City Island and Royal Wharf use and are shaped by their Docklands past

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This alternative queer walking tour will explore queer places in London’s pleasure district of Soho and the surrounding parts of Westminster, focusing on lesbian, bisexual and trans stories through an intersectional lens.

This walking tour will celebrate the women of Bow and Bethnal Green – from the match makers of the Bryant and May factory to the Quinn Square rent strikers – looking at how, through their activism, they were able to change the built environment.

From the Great Stink of London in 1858 to the Tideway 'Super Sewer' currently under construction, this walking tour will chart the development of London's sanitation infrastructure, past, present and future.

This sensory walk explores the art of moving mindfully through urban space – focusing on the rhymes, rhythm, volumes, and voids that normally flow past unnoticed. We begin in Inner Temple and wander west to Somerset House, through Trafalgar Square, ending at the Royal Academy.

This walking tour explores the nature of community by journeying north of the city along the once Roman route of Ermine Street, exploring the impact of migration and the evolving forms of housing made necessary by London's growth.

Discover another side to Stratford beyond the regeneration narratives on this Art and Culture Trail featuring intriguing forgotten histories alongside contemporary stories reflected in the area's public art, local monuments and heritage buildings.

On the surface Stratford is all Olympics and Westfield: this tour unearths the area's Roman and religious origins, unusual buildings, famous manufacturing pioneers, 20th century hard times and considers (from above) the impacts of its newest quarter.

Imagine a history of smells woven through the streets of a bygone industrial Bermondsey. This walk will explore & trace the way food has shaped the architecture of the area known as 'London's Larder’ How do we value our food heritage?

Not many would believe that Notting Hill, now an extremely wealthy part of London, was once notorious for being a “slum”. This tour explores the stories behind the streets of Notting Hill and how their effects can be seen decades on.

This tour will explore a working class view of Bloomsbury through the stories, famous names and classic British films associated with the neighbourhood over the past 60 years, with a special focus on theatrical, film and television personalities.