London in 1, 2 and 3 days: walking itineraries

Make time for the places you actually want to see.

Start with the plan that fits your trip. Below each itinerary, explore the linked walks and check their distances, stops and starting points.

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These plans leave time for meals and an interior visit. Listen at the outdoor points on each route; arrange interior visits separately.

1 day
Start with Westminster: Parliament, the Abbey and Big Ben Free, then continue through the neighbouring area with Whitehall and Trafalgar Square: Kings, Regicides and Admirals. Leave room for a park pause and lunch.
2 days
Day 1: follow the previous plan. Day 2: Covent Garden and the Strand: Theatres, a Market and Scandals and Soho: Refugees, Musicians and the Cholera Pump, two nearby West End areas.
3 days
Days 1 and 2: follow the previous plans. Day 3: The Tower of London and Pepys's Diary and The City: the Great Fire, the Money and the Legends, around Tower Hill and the heart of the City.

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Westminster: Parliament, the Abbey and Big Ben

Free walk

0.99 km · 11 stops · 46 min

Westminster: Parliament, the Abbey and Big Ben

You start on Westminster Bridge, where a poet saw a city without its smoke and whose sonnet carries a different date, then carry on beneath Big Ben, which is really a bell with a crack in it.

1.59 km · 12 stops · 53 min

The City: the Great Fire, the Money and the Legends

You start by Pudding Lane, where a young Frenchman, a watchmaker's son, confessed to starting the Great Fire and was hanged even though not even his judges believed him, and then stand before the Monument, which is exactly as tall as the distance to that bakery and which spent a century and a half accusing the Catholics in writing.

1.91 km · 12 stops · 57 min

Covent Garden and the Strand: Theatres, a Market and Scandals

You start in Seven Dials, the star of seven streets whose column vanished in 1773, and not for the reason you'll hear, in the old neighbourhood of gallows ballads; on Rose Street, a poet was beaten up over a poem he hadn't written.

1.7 km · 12 stops · 55 min

Soho: Refugees, Musicians and the Cholera Pump

You start in Soho Square, with the statue of a king who spent sixty years in a garden on the outskirts, and the church of the French refugees who filled the neighbourhood.

1.25 km · 13 stops · 49 min

The Tower of London and Pepys's Diary

You start beside a stretch of Roman wall that once held the tomb of a tax collector who asked for mercy, and climb to the site of the Tower Hill scaffold, where Thomas More asked for help going up and none coming down, and where, according to More's family, Charles V said what he'd have given for a counsellor like that.

1.2 km · 12 stops · 51 min

Whitehall and Trafalgar Square: Kings, Regicides and Admirals

You start by the lake where Charles II kept Russian pelicans and Balearic cranes, and pass the back of Downing Street, named after a diplomat who changed sides and sold out his old friends.

London, before you go

London makes more sense an area at a time than as one vast walk. Neighbourhoods change pace within a few streets; the sky may change while you find the next one.

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London in 1, 2 and 3 days: walking itineraries

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The walks in your plan

Westminster: Parliament, the Abbey and Big Ben

The City: the Great Fire, the Money and the Legends

Covent Garden and the Strand: Theatres, a Market and Scandals

Soho: Refugees, Musicians and the Cholera Pump

The Tower of London and Pepys's Diary

Whitehall and Trafalgar Square: Kings, Regicides and Admirals

London, before you go

Your first city,on Podtour.

Your first city,on Podtour.

Your first city,
on Podtour.

Your first city,
on Podtour.