River Thames London Walking Tour

We start at the Mother of Democracy and the famous Big Ben and learn about how over a thousand years ago this was all an island in the Thames

See the famous revolving sign of New Scotland Yard at the home of the oldest Police force in the world.

One of the newest icons of London but also one of the most controversial when it was built.

See the old ceremonial entrance way to London where all the big names from history would alight from their boats on the Thames and find out why now you can't even see the river from here!

Beautiful Victorian Gardens along the river that were built to help alleviate a very smelly problem.

Previously right up against the river and now a few hundred yards from it, we can see some of the beautiful gardens and paths in this old legal quarter of London that featured heavily in the writings of Charles Dickens and frequently used in TV and movies such as Downton Abbey.

See the mosaic that covers over 2,000 years of London history at the only surviving Anglo-Saxon docks in the world and learn of how King Alfred The Great re-established modern London here after expelling those pesky Vikings.

See St Pauls from the now iconic view from the Millennium Bridge.

Offering some of the best photo opportunities in the whole of Central London.

We won't go inside but can you guess what it used to be?

See the incredible Globe Theatre and find out why it is here in what was once the most salubrious part of London!

Find out the lurid details of what would happen to the unfortunate who were sent here at His Majesty's Pleasure.

See the wondrous replica of the famous ship of exploration used by Sir Francis Drake.

One of the lesser known cathedrals in London.

The food market famous around the world which one way or the other has been here since Roman times.

The first and most historic bridge in London and yet oddly, not the most famous we will see.

Now a high-end shopping and restaurant area but once the most advanced shipyards in the world.

See the famous old Royal Navy ship which is now a museum vessel and permanently moored on the Thames.

The home of the London Mayor and local government and surrounded by some of the new development which London is now also famous for. The best views of Tower Bridge can be found right here!

Maybe the most famous bridge in the world which when it was built was also by far the most advanced too. People have flown under it, died from jumping off it but we'll just walk across with the opportunity for some great photos and to look through the centre gap and see the river below.

We will finish outside the Tower of London whose moat once connected to the river and see Traitors Gate where those condemned souls would arrive by boat awaiting their dreadful fate.