Explore the City of London, one of the most historic areas of the British capital, and enjoy captivating tales in fascinating hidden locations that even most locals don’t know about. An expert local guide will bring the sights and stories to life.
Free Tours by Foot offer name-your-own-price London walking tours. They provide a platform for professional, freelance tour guides to lead walking as well as food and bike tours at no upfront cost, so that you may enjoy a quality sightseeing experience no matter what your budget.
For all the history of a Victorian Dickens Christmas, try a London Walking Tour.
All the delights and delicacies of a London Victorian Christmas with Charles Dickens's famous story The Christmas Carol as your route map and inspiration.
Grab your deerstalker, as you embark on a Sherlock Holmes Tour of London, exploring places featured in the books, real sites that inspired Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as locations featured in film and TV adaptations of the detective’s great adventures.
Explore the City of London, one of the most historic areas of the British capital, and enjoy captivating tales in fascinating hidden locations that even most locals don’t know about. An expert local guide will bring the sights and stories to life.
Free Tours by Foot offer name-your-own-price London walking tours. They provide a platform for professional, freelance tour guides to lead walking as well as food and bike tours at no upfront cost, so that you may enjoy a quality sightseeing experience no matter what your budget. Everyone should be permitted to take a guided tour for a price they feel it was worth – even free! No two tours are the same. Name-your-own-price London walking tours are tours for every budget.
Their London walking tours cover both popular tourist destinations, such as on the Westminster Tour, which takes place in Buckingham Palace and the Changing of the Guard to the City of London Walking Tour, which focuses on the old Roman settlement, St. Paul’s Cathedral and the Tower of London. If you are short on time, then consider the ultimate of London walking tours, the London-All-in-One Tour, a six hour adventure that combines both tours plus a bit more. For a taste of alternative side of the city, check out London Graffiti and Street Art Tour, which visits East London and covers the art, history and culture of this exciting area as well as our Camden Tour. For the foodie in you, do check out the array of London food tours.
For all the history of a Victorian Dickens Christmas, try a London Walking Tour.
All the delights and delicacies of a London Victorian Christmas with Charles Dickens's famous story The Christmas Carol as your route map and inspiration. Deck the streets of London with balls of jolly. Scrooge and Marley and the Cratchits. This was where Dickens's imagination took wing and where the characters did their thing. And as you make their acquaintance they'll spice things with warming seasonal stories of turkeys and boars" heads, Christmas puds, mince pies and pantomimes; cards, crackers, Christmas trees and mistletoe. Let alone the bells that rang out on Christmas morning to wake Scrooge up – a much changed character.
Grab your deerstalker, as you embark on a Sherlock Holmes Tour of London, exploring places featured in the books, real sites that inspired Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as locations featured in film and TV adaptations of the detective’s great adventures.
This Sherlock Holmes walk is a must-do tour for real fans of Holmes and Watson.
The tour starts at the very place where Holmes and Watson first meet and then takes in literary sites from gentlemen’s clubs such as 104 Pall Mall, The Reform Club, to grand hotels featured in some of the novels and short stories, as well as the London that inspired the author of the books, Arthur Conan Doyle.
You get to visit many of the film and TV locations and inspirations in the capital featured in screen adaptations starring Jeremy Brett, Benedict Cumberbatch and Robert Downey Jr. Along the way, you have plenty of opportunities to take pictures and see the locations up-close.
Feel free to dress up as the Master Sleuth himself or any other character in the series (only if you want to!). The Sherlock Holmes London tour finishes at Somerset House on The Strand.
Explore the City of London, one of the most historic areas of the British capital, and enjoy captivating tales in fascinating hidden locations that even most locals don’t know about. An expert local guide will bring the sights and stories to life.
Experience London as never before, a darker London riddled with crime, violence, mystery and hauntings. By day the financial and business capital of London, the City of London is also one of the oldest parts of the city, with two thousand years of history waiting to come alive for you. See many sites, some world famous, some practically unknown, some hidden, and hear stories of murder and mayhem, robbery and organised crime, hauntings and ghostly visions from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Many ghostly figures are said to walk the streets of the City of London, and on this evening walking tour you will learn their stories, often tragic, sometimes gruesome. Learn about the ghost of one of Britain’s best loved authors, Charles Dickens, hear the stories of the woman who haunts the Bank of England, and those of two beautiful but murderous queens, who occasionally cross paths and can be seen fighting in the gloom of the evening.
Hear about grave robberies that took place here. Walk over ancient burial pits, learn about witchcraft trials and public executions – hanging, burning, boiling and roasting alive, amongst other terrible fates were met in the alleys and ancient buildings of the City of London.
London’s dark and criminal past will be brought to life, as you learn about the life and crimes of the infamous Jack the Ripper. Visit Smithfield’s market to hear the stories of Bloody Mary and the ghost of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, the ‘Grey Lady’.
End your tour at a Victorian pub with a secret. Built on the site of an old prison, you’ll be able to go into the cellars and see the smallest prison cells in London, haunted today by a poltergeist. Enjoy a thrilling evening stroll in the company of an expert guide, as you explore one of London’s most historical and fascinating areas.
