The following are walks that London explorer groups have done
Dicken's walk - through Covent Garden, Lincoln Inn Fields and the Dickens Museum
Christmas Markets - Royal Exchange, Lombard St, Leadenhall Market and South Bank.
Seven Dials and UCL Museums - includes free visits to Petrie and Grant Museums
Kings Cross and Granary Square - includes visit to the London Canal Museum
Walkie-Talkie building and Bank Museum - includes a visit to the Sky Garden
Other walks were:
London Explorers 4 have done the following walks
London Explorers 6 have done the following walks
Christmas Markets - Royal Exchange, Lombard St, Leadenhall Market and South Bank.
Seven Dials and UCL Museums - includes free visits to Petrie and Grant Museums
Kings Cross and Granary Square - includes visit to the London Canal Museum
Walkie-Talkie building and Bank Museum - includes a visit to the Sky Garden
Other walks were:
- British Library, the free manuscript collection, a brief look at St Pancras Hotel and Station, and the Foundling Museum. (Bus from Waterloo to the Library and bus from Russell Sq back to Station)
- Chiswick House and Garden and Hogarth's House. (Tube to Turnham Green and back)
- The Design Museum. High St Kensington and walk around Kensington. (9 bus to High St Ken from Charing X)
- Tate Modern to visit the free galleries and 10th floor viewing gallery in the new Blavatnik Gallery, lunch at Doggets Pub on Blackfriars Bridge and visit to Benjamin Franklin's house in Craven St. Excellent tour costs £4 with NT card.
- Brixton by train, changing at Orpington. Coffee at Ritzy Cinema café, walk to Black Cultural Archives via Electric Avenue (tour £3pp). Lunch at Trinity Arms and walk through Brixton Market to see the David Bowie Memorial.
London Explorers 4 have done the following walks
- V & A Museum. - has different exhibitions on at different time
- Guildhall - guided tour £8 (good for winter months)
- Thames walks and dockland
- Embankment Bridges & Southwark Cathedral - Guided tour £7
- Regents Park
- High Street Kensington & Designer Museum - covers products, industrial, graphics & fashion
- Old Operating Theatre - situated in the Attic of St Thomas Church. Close to London Bridge station, there are 52 steps up a spiral staircase £5.00
- Royal Albert Hall - offering inside story of the Hall, beautiful building. Tour around £10
- Theatre's & Tour at Drury Lane Theatre. - Opened in 1663, has 2 Royal boxes. Tour takes you behind the scenes £8.50
- Greenwich, Queen Anne & Observatory - House of the Greenwich Mean Time
- National Maritime Museum - Free, so much there you need to time limit visit
- 12. Church of St Magnus the Martyr, Church of St Andrew, Tour at Tower Lifeboat station.
- War Cabinet & Wallace Collection. - war cabinet is a secret wartime bunker, expensive but can get 2 for 1 with train ticket. Wallace collection - 18 century painting, furniture, porcelain & Old Masters paintings, free
- Aspley House (Duke of Wellington's home). Free to U3A, we paid £5 per person for a guided tour, which was well worth it. Easy spend 1 1/2hours there and very interesting. After lunch went to Wellington Arch and went up to the top, there is a lift for those who don't want to climb the steps. Good views from the top.
- Holy Trinity Church Sloane Square. Amazing Arts and Crafts £3 per person for the guide including a cup of coffee. Well worth a visit. Also, Chelsea Physic Garden, £9.25 per person plus £30 for the tour. Incredible gardens so much there to see, again well worth the visit. We had lunch at the Physic Gardens which was ok, food good but small portions.
- National Trust - 2 Willow Road. Hampstead Heath. Modernist 1939's house. Very different for a NT house. Not overly interesting. 2nd visit to NT Fenton House still in Hampstead Heath, excellent, and beautiful gardens.
- Museum of London, well worth a visit, you could spend all day there but we had 1 1/2 hours and its free, also, had coffee there. In the afternoon we visited the small museum of the City of London Police. Close to the 1st museum so not to much walking.
- Visited a beautiful basilica style church St Peter's in Clerkenwell Rd, also went to the Postal Museum, taking the train ride through the tunnels underground.
- The Italian gardens in Kensington Park, beautiful park. Also, went to St Mary's Abbot Church. After lunch went to Sambourne House home of Linley Sambourne Punch illustrator. Very interesting home and well worth a visit with guide.
London Explorers 6 have done the following walks
- Camden lock to Little Venice. Click here for more details.
- Temple of Mithras, Ragged School Museum. Click here for more details.
- Changing of the Guard, Household Cavalry Museum and the Jewel Tower. Click here for more details.