Places to stroll around London

[McLarenette]

I will be in central London tomorrow afternoon and Mon morning with time on my hands after shopping. I love walking around London but I’d like to branch out to somewhere new. Places I already know quite well:

Oxford Street
Bond Street
Piccadilly
Soho
Covent Garden
St James Park
Mayfair
Grovesnor Sq
Whitehall
Tate Modern and that bit of the South Bank
Lincolns Inn plus that area of the City in general, inc Fleet Street
Kensington
Islington
Richmond

Do you have a favourite area of London? I like old and interesting buildings, little shops etc.

Are Hampstead and Highgate too far our?
Potter around Hampstead first then across the Heath (bit of a walk) to Highgate Cemetery-fascinating. If you don't want the work, go to Archway tube snd walk up Highgate hill.

*out obviously

Bloomsbury
Little Venice

Brick Lane and Spitalfields in general. Portobello.

The walk from London Bridge to Rotherhithe is a really interesting one - full of history.

Greenwich

This - with lunch at The Mayflower.

Or Bloomsbury - in fact, if anybody wants to give proper Bloomsbury tips, I will do that wander myself soon!

I always like a tootle in Hyde Park too.

Recently went on a walking tour of Chelsea Embankment and some of the little streets leading up towards the Kings Road and you can have a cup of tea in the Royal Hospital it was rather nice. & you can then get a coffee on the Kings road But so many blue plaques for artists etc and a lovely walk

The walk along the canal from King's Cross to Victoria Park or Limehouse is nice. You could go from Victoria Park down to Columbia Road (or start there and work back to King's Cross as the market will be open).

And there's Brick Lane and Shoreditch close by as well so you could walk to there after / before Columbia Road (depending which end you start - King's Cross or in the East).

Kings Cross plus the cemetery and little gardens as well as Coal Drop Yard market

This one is a good call too.

Depending how long you have, the walk from Clerkenwell to Shoreditch and through to Brick Lane is fascinating

You can start at Farringdon which is now super quick to get to on the Elizabeth line

The area round Smithfield and Barts Hospital. Don't miss the Golden Boy of Pye Corner, where the Fire of London (allegedly) stopped. The building it’s on is now modern but it used to be a pub where the resurrectionists used to hide the bodies they’d snatched, waiting for the surgeons from Bart’s to come and buy them.

You can go into the ancient Charterhouse just up the road, and potter round Postman's Park nearby, which is lovely and has the extraordinary Watts Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice.

The Watts Memorial is well worth a visit.

Oh, and if you skirt down the side of St Bartholomew the Great church, in Cloth Fair, no. 41 is the only house in the City of London still surviving from before the Great Fire. It has beautiful leaded windows.

Temple

something like this
symbolsandsecrets.london/2019/05/09/london-law-a-walk-around-the-temple/
and maybe a loop of Lincoln's Inn Fields

Would you be interested in going on a guided walk? I’ve been on some with this company and they’re really good for exploring parts you haven’t been before. They do ones which aren’t just the tourist highlights. How about the East End?

This!

Pimlico through to Chelsea. Could go down by the river and up towards the kings Road and sloane Square.
Or Elizabeth Street Belgravia to sloane Square.
Around battersea Park is lovely.

@McLarenette and @RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie and @IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads Ha ha . Mine was a guided walking tour as we happened to be in London. So I had to pay for it but it was very interesting - pretty sure with some googling you could do it yourself - but that stretch of the embankment near Chelsea and some of the little streets have such nice architecture and also lots of artists lived there so vey nice to have a wander around

Hatton Garden, not everyone's cup of tea but the sheer amount of diamonds is amazing!

Go to Monument tube and start at the Monument on Pudding Lane (where Fire of London started), climb the monument for £5 for nice views, walk towards Leadenhall market and browse the shops there, then head to All Hallows by the Tower church (it has Saxon origins plus Roman ruins and a mini Roman museum in the lowest level). Then, wander across to Trinity Gardens which has a lovely garden and a cool memorial to those lost at sea. Then walk past cafes down to the riverside, follow the river past the Tower of London (you’ll notice Dead Man’s Hole and then Traitor’s Gate on your left), and finish up at St Katharine’s Docks, nice shops and cafes. If you still have energy walk over Tower Bridge (maybe buy a ticket and go inside it?) then head Weat again, along The Queen’s Walk past cafes and restaurants to The Shard, maybe have coffee at the Shard, then pass through Southwark Cathedral (admire the Shakespeare memorial), the Globe etc.

If you want something longer do it in reverse order and add St Pauls Cathedral and Temple Church to the end. I know this sounds a bit churchy but in this district that’s where most of the history is and some of it is amazing.