Welcome to London City Walks

Once an unhealthy fen, the district was for centuries grindingly poor. Its ancient Bone Hill became a burial ground for dissenters, it was the second home of a madhouse popularly known as Bedlam, and its church was christened “Lousy St Luke’s”.

Although we think of Shakespeare as ‘the man from Stratford’, he spent most of his creative life in London, and the city left its mark on him. This walk leads through the core of Shakespeare’s London to where he worked and where he spent his leisure time with friends and fellow writers.

This circular walk concentrates on the seamier side of London, and invites walkers to encounter a range of cheats, frauds, thieves, whores and cold-blooded killers.