Hidden Gems walks in London
18 of the London walks are about hidden gems.
- 115 walks
- 959 places with a written story
- 416 km of routes in total
- 0.1-8.6 hours per walk
- written in EN, RU, ES, AR, DE, FR, IT, PL, KO, JA
- last walk added 2026-10-17
Walks in London
London Through the Eyes of a Black Cab Driver
Stories they don't tell tourists — from the Knowledge boy's moped to the Devil's courtyard
Secrets and Surprises of Barbican
From Roman Fort to Brutalist Utopia — London's Most Unexpected Neighbourhood
Le Londres des Français : huguenots, exilés et tables de Soho à Covent Garden
De la plaque de Napoléon III au French House, de l'église huguenote de Soho Square aux fresques de Cocteau, de Voltaire à Maiden Lane au roi Jean le Bon prisonnier au Savoy : trois siècles de Français à Londres
Notting Hill secreto: Portobello Road, el carnaval y la torre de Goldfinger en Londres
Una calle que lleva el nombre de una batalla en Panamá, el Mangrove, un cine de 1910, Orwell antes de España y un hipódromo fantasma: el Notting Hill de Londres que no sale en la postal
Racecourse, Carnival and the Blue Door: Hidden Notting Hill & Portobello Road, London
From a Victorian theatre at the old tollgate to a Brutalist tower on Golborne Road: a lost racecourse, Orwell's cold lodgings, the birth of Carnival and the street a film made famous
Регентс-канал: тайная артерия Лондона
От Литтл-Венеции до Лаймхаус — 14 км истории, взрывов и скрытой жизни города
Королевская дорога: от Слоун-сквер до рынка Duke of York
Панк, балерины, шпионы и монаршие секреты Челси
Soho's Secret Side
30 minutes of hidden history, curious corners & forgotten stories
Earls Court Uncovered: Bohemians, Rock Stars & Royal Secrets
A 1-hour walk through London's most unexpectedly fascinating neighbourhood
London Uncovered: Secrets of the Square Mile & Beyond
Hidden courtyards, ancient ruins, and stories the guidebooks forgot
Concrete, Catacombs & Control
A dystopian walk through Camden's industrial underworld
Heights, Heaths & Hidden Lanes
A leisurely stroll through Hampstead Village's cobbled secrets and the wild wonder of the Heath
How much does a London walk cost?
The first story of every walk is free to listen to, and so is the written text of every story on the site. Paying unlocks the stories that have not been written yet on that particular walk — from £4.99 for a short one to £19.99 for a full day. Once anyone pays for a walk, its stories become free for everyone who comes after them.
Do I need mobile data while I walk?
Yes, for now. Audio streams as you go rather than downloading in advance, so you need a connection at each stop. Central London coverage is good enough that this is rarely a problem, but on a long walk through the parks it is worth checking you have signal before you set off. Offline download is not available yet.
What languages are the London walks in?
English and Russian, with one walk in Polish. A walk is written in one language and stays in it — the Russian walks are not translations of the English ones, they are different routes chosen by different people. Each walk in the list above is labelled with its language, so you can see before you open it.
Can I start in the middle of a walk?
Yes. Every stop is a separate story that stands on its own, and the player lets you jump to any of them. Walks are ordered as a route because that is the shortest way round, not because the stories depend on each other. If you are already standing next to stop seven, start at stop seven.
Who writes the stories?
A language model drafts them, from a route a person asked for, about places verified against Google Maps first. The narration is speech synthesis. We say so on every page rather than in the footer, and there is a longer explanation of exactly which step is machine-written at /about/how-stories-are-made. Corrections go to [email protected] and are read by a person.