526 places in London you walk past without knowing the story

This map holds every place in London we have told a story about: 526 of them, from 63 walks, about 29 hours of listening in all. Most are not the ones on the postcards — a doorway, an alley, a pub, the site of something that is no longer there. The list grows by itself: a place appears here once its story is written, voiced and checked against the map. Last added 1 October 2026.

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• The Prince of Wales

  48 Cleaver Square, London SE11 4EA

  The Prince of Wales is an Edwardian pub in London's Cleaver Square where patrons can borrow steel boules to play petanque on the square's central gravel…

• Cleaver Square

  Cleaver Square, London SE11 4EA

  Laid out in 1789, Cleaver Square in London is the first residential square built south of the River Thames, notable for its intact Georgian terraces…

• Kennington Underground Station

  Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4JQ

  Kennington Underground Station in London, opened in 1890 on Kennington Park Road, is the world's first deep-level electric tube line station to retain its…

• The Historical Association

  59a Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4JQ

  The Historical Association, located at 59A Kennington Park Road in London, is the UK's national history education charity, housed directly above the ancient…

• Guinness Trust Estate

  Guinness Trust Buildings, Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4JF

  The Guinness Trust Estate on Kennington Park Road in London is a historic social housing complex constructed in 1921 as the Trust's first government-assisted…

• The Old Red Lion

  42 Kennington Park Road, London SE11 4RS

  The Old Red Lion at 42 Kennington Park Road in London is a 1933 pub built in the Brewers' Tudor style to mimic a medieval inn.

• St Mary's Churchyard

  105 Newington Butts, London SE1 6SF

  St Mary's Churchyard in London is a former medieval archery ground and parish burial site that was converted into a public park after its historic church was…

• Metropolitan Tabernacle

  Elephant and Castle, London SE1 6SD

  The Metropolitan Tabernacle in London is a monumental neoclassical church at Elephant and Castle that opened in 1861 as the world's largest non-conformist…

• Strata SE1

  8 Walworth Road, London SE1 6EG

  Strata SE1 is a 148-metre tall, 43-storey skyscraper in London's Elephant and Castle district, famous as the world's first tower with wind turbines integrated…

• Michael Faraday Memorial

  Elephant Square, Elephant and Castle, London SE1 6TG

  The Michael Faraday Memorial in Elephant Square, London, is a six-meter-tall stainless steel box that houses an active Underground electrical substation.

• The Engineer Pub

  65 Gloucester Avenue, London NW1 8JH

  The Engineer is an 1845 Victorian pub in London's Primrose Hill, named after engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and famous for pioneering the city's 1990s…

• Feng Shang Princess

  Cumberland Basin, Prince Albert Road, London NW1 7SS / NW1 7UX

  The Feng Shang Princess is London's first floating Chinese restaurant, established in 1985 in the Cumberland Basin along Regent's Canal.

• St Mark's Church

  5-8 St Mark's Square, London NW1 7TN

  St Mark's Church, a Victorian Gothic Revival sanctuary consecrated in 1853 near London Zoo, was rebuilt in 1957 after being gutted by a Blitz incendiary bomb…

• Snowdon Aviary

  ZSL London Zoo, Regent's Park, Outer Circle, London NW1 4RY

  The Snowdon Aviary at London Zoo along Regent's Canal, completed in 1965, was Great Britain's first large-scale tensegrity structure, featuring 80-foot…

• Barrow Hill Reservoir

  St Edmund's Terrace, London NW8 7ED

  The Barrow Hill Reservoir in London is a hidden subterranean brick engineering marvel beside Primrose Hill that still holds over four million gallons of…

• Macclesfield Bridge

  Avenue Road / Prince Albert Road, London NW8 7PU / NW8 7PY

  Macclesfield Bridge, spanning Regent's Canal in London, is famous for surviving a catastrophic gunpowder explosion on October 2, 1874, which earned it the…

• Allitsen Road Drill Hall

  83 Allitsen Road, London NW8 7AS

  The Allitsen Road Drill Hall in London is a 1912 red-brick Edwardian headquarters built for the Third County of London Yeomanry volunteer regiment, known as…

• Barbara Hepworth's First Studio

  24 St Ann's Terrace, St John's Wood, London NW8 6PJ

  Barbara Hepworth's first studio at 24 St Ann's Terrace in London is where the 24-year-old sculptor launched British modernist direct carving in 1927 alongside…

• Panzer's Delicatessen

  13–19 Circus Road, St John's Wood, London NW8 6PB

  Panzer’s Delicatessen on Circus Road in St John’s Wood, London, is a historic food store founded in 1944 famous for its hand-carved Scottish smoked salmon.

• Panzer's Deli

  13-19 Circus Road, London NW8 6PB

  Panzer's Delicatessen in St John's Wood, London, is an historic grocer founded in 1944 by refugees that is famous for its hand-cut smoked salmon.

• John William Waterhouse's House

  10 Hall Road, St John's Wood, London NW8 9PD

  Number 10 Hall Road in London was the final home and studio of artist John William Waterhouse, where he painted famous works from 1900 until 1917.

• Cropthorne Court

  156 Maida Vale, London W9 1PR

  Completed in 1930, Cropthorne Court in Maida Vale, London, is a Grade II listed mansion block designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott featuring an innovative…

• Attendant Coffee Roasters

  27A Foley St, London W1W 6DY

  Attendant Coffee Roasters in London is a specialty coffee bar located inside a subterranean Victorian gents' public toilet built around 1890 on Foley Street.

• Electric Boulevard

  Electric Boulevard, London SW11 8BJ

  Electric Boulevard in London is a pedestrian walkway showcasing the first side-by-side residential developments by architects Frank Gehry and Sir Norman Foster.

• Battersea Power Station Underground Station

  Prospect Way, London SW11 8AL

  Battersea Power Station Underground Station in London features a striking gold-painted geometric canopy designed by Grimshaw Architects that mirrors the 1930s…

• Battersea Power Station

  Circus Road East, London SW11 8BZ

  Battersea Power Station in London is Europe's largest brick building, constructed from over six million bricks and designed in Art Deco style by architect Sir…

• Riverlight Quay

  Riverlight Quay, Nine Elms Lane, London SW8 5AW

  Riverlight Quay in London is a waterfront development of six glass and steel pavilions designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners that step from 12 to 20…

• Nine Elms Pier

  Nine Elms Pier, Nine Elms Lane, London SW8 5DA

  Nine Elms Pier in London is a historic floating community of roughly twenty vintage Dutch barges moored on the River Thames.

• US Embassy London

  33 Nine Elms Lane, London SW8 5JY

  The US Embassy in London, located in Nine Elms, is a twelve-story, one-billion-dollar crystalline glass cube opened in 2018 that disguises maximum-security…

• Heathwall Pumping Station

  Nine Elms Lane, London SW8 5BP

  The Heathwall Pumping Station on Nine Elms Lane in London forms a key part of the 25-kilometre Thames Tideway Super Sewer project, housing a 54-metre-deep…

• New Covent Garden Market Entrance

  Nine Elms Lane, London SW8 5NX

  New Covent Garden Market on Nine Elms Lane in London is the city's premier wholesale food and flower market, supplying forty percent of fresh produce eaten…

• Embassy Gardens Plaza

  Embassy Gardens, Nine Elms Lane, London SW8 5BL

  Embassy Gardens Plaza in London's Nine Elms district is a linear park featuring a transparent Sky Pool suspended 35 metres above the ground.

• The Tower, One St George Wharf

  1 St George Wharf, London SW8 2FC

  The Tower at One St George Wharf is a 181-metre, 50-storey residential skyscraper in London that became the United Kingdom's tallest purely residential…

• St George Wharf

  St George Wharf, London SW8 2LE

  St George Wharf in London is a pioneering riverside residential development in Nine Elms designed by Broadway Malyan featuring green glass buildings with…

• Vauxhall Bus Station

  Vauxhall Bus Station, London SW8 1SJ

  Designed by Arup and opened in 2004, Vauxhall Bus Station in London features a 200-metre continuous stainless steel ribbon roof equipped with over 160 solar…

• Barbican Station

  Aldersgate Street, Barbican, London EC1A 4JA, UK

  Barbican Station on Aldersgate Street in London opened on December 23, 1865, as an open-cut railway station where ancient Roman ruins, Victorian railway…

• Greenhill Rents

  Greenhill Rents (branching north off Cowcross Street), London EC1M 6BN, UK

  Greenhill Rents is a historic alley off Cowcross Street in London, laid out in 1733 by merchant John Greenhill as speculative housing that later served as…

• Faulkner's Alley

  Faulkner's Alley (running north off Cowcross Street), London EC1M 6DQ, UK

  Faulkner's Alley in London is a preserved 17th-century passageway locked behind iron gates between Cowcross Street and Benjamin Street that survived…

• The George Inn

  75 Borough High St, London SE1 1NH

  The George Inn on Borough High Street in London is the city's last surviving galleried coaching inn, rebuilt in 1676 following a devastating fire in Southwark.

• Old Red Lion Pub & Playhouse

  418 St John St, London EC1V 4NJ, United Kingdom

  The Old Red Lion Pub & Playhouse in Islington, London, is one of the city's oldest continuous pub locations, operating on St John Street since 1415.

• The Camden Head

  2 Camden Walk, London N1 8DY, United Kingdom

  The Camden Head is an 1899 Victorian pub in London's Islington district famous for hosting free nightly stand-up shows by famous British comedians upstairs.

• Gallipoli Restaurant

  119–120 Upper St, London N1 1QP

  Gallipoli Restaurant at 119 Upper Street in Islington, London, is a Mediterranean dining institution renowned for its ceiling and walls covered in hundreds of…

• King's Head

  115 Upper St, London N1 1QN, United Kingdom

  The King's Head in London is a historic venue at 115 Upper Street where American producer Dan Crawford founded London's first pub theatre since Shakespeare's…

• Angel Station & The Longest Escalator

  Angel Underground Station, Islington High Street, London N1 9LQ

  Angel Station in London is an Underground tube station famous for housing the longest escalator on the London Underground network, featuring a 90-foot vertical…

• Shakespeare's Head Pub

  29 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7HZ

  Look up... just a little higher. Do you see him? There, in the first-floor window... William Shakespeare himself, gazing down at the crowds below with that…

• Denmark Street — London's Tin Pan Alley

  Denmark Street, London WC2H 8NL

  Look at this tiny little street. Just about a hundred yards long... and yet, more music history is packed into Denmark Street than practically anywhere else in…

• Kingly Court — Hidden Courtyard

  Kingly Court, Carnaby Street, London W1B 5PW

  Now look around you. We just slipped off Carnaby Street through a narrow passageway... and suddenly the noise, the crowds, the chaos of Soho — it all falls…

• The French House

  49 Dean Street, London W1D 5BE

  Look at the building in front of you... number forty-nine Dean Street. See the blue awnings, the French tricolour flying outside?

• Coach & Horses Pub

  29 Greek Street, London W1D 5DH

  Take a look at this unassuming little corner pub. From the outside, the Coach and Horses on Greek Street looks like... well, just another Soho boozer.

• House of MinaLima

  26 Greek Street, London W1D 5DE

  Take a look at number twenty six Greek Street. It might look like just another pretty Soho townhouse... but step inside, and you'd enter one of the most…

The other 476 are on the map above, and in the walks they belong to.