Audio walks in London
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- 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
From 221B to Wimpole Street: Sherlock Holmes, Dickens and the Beatles in Marylebone, London
A literary walk through Marylebone: a detective who never lived, the letters that still find him, secret weddings, a Christmas classic, two Beatles songs written in a family home and the empty waiting room where Holmes was really born
Crowns, Pelicans and Bearskins: Royal London from The Mall to St James's
A loop through the stage set of the British monarchy: Admiralty Arch, Horse Guards, the pelicans of St James's Park, Buckingham Palace, Green Park and the old court of St James's, ending in the clubs of Pall Mall
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
Under the Thames to Longitude Zero: Maritime Greenwich, London
Walk beneath the river to the Cutty Sark, Wren's Painted Hall and Nelson's last journey, then climb the hill to the Prime Meridian, where London taught the whole world to tell the time
Pensioners, Poets and Punks: Chelsea's Riverside History from the Royal Hospital to the King's Road, London
From Sloane Square to World's End along the Thames: Wren's old soldiers, a 1673 physic garden, the painters and writers of Cheyne Walk, Thomas More's church and the shop where punk was born
Shakespeare's Southwark: Bankside, the Globe and Tate Modern in London
From bear-pits and playhouses to a power station full of art: London's old pleasure quarter across the Thames, where Shakespeare, Chaucer, Keats and the boy Dickens all left their mark
Albertopolis: Prince Albert's London of Museums, Music and Science
From the palace where Victoria was born to the golden Albert Memorial, the Royal Albert Hall and the great South Kensington museums: the quarter one German prince built out of the profits of a glass house
Westminster und das Königshaus: Londons deutsche Könige von Hannover bis Windsor
Von Händels Wassermusik auf der Themse über die Krönungskirche Westminster Abbey bis zum Buckingham Palace: ein Spaziergang durch London auf den Spuren der Hannoveraner, Prinz Alberts und eines Namenswechsels mitten im Ersten Weltkrieg
Vom Tower bis St Paul's: Londons City zwischen Römern, Hanse und Blitz
Von der Tower Bridge über den Stalhof der deutschen Hansekaufleute bis zur Kuppel von St Paul's: zweitausend Jahre London auf gut drei Kilometern, mit Gefangenen, Bränden, Börsen und Glocken
Shakespeares Ufer: Bankside, Globe und Tate Modern in London
Von der wackelnden Millennium Bridge über Theater, Bischofsbordelle und Gasthöfe bis zu Chaucer, Keats und Dickens: Londons literarisches Südufer in Southwark
Albertopolis: Prinz Alberts Traum von Wissenschaft und Kunst in London
Von Kensington Palace über das Albert Memorial und die Royal Albert Hall bis zu Science Museum, Natural History Museum und V&A: wie ein Coburger mit dem Gewinn der Weltausstellung von 1851 Londons Museumsviertel South Kensington erfand
أناقة لندن الملكية: من قصور مايفير العريقة إلى ظلال هايد بارك الساحرة
جولة راقية تأخذك بين أشجار ساحة بيركلي التاريخية، ممر بيرلينغتون الملكي، قصر ولينغتون وبحيرة السربنتين الهادئة
Routes people ask for in London
- Walk from Islington to Camden
- Walk from Camden to Little Venice
- Walk from London Bridge to Tower Bridge
- Walk from Borough Market to Tate Modern
- Walk from London Bridge to St Paul's Cathedral
How long do you want to walk?
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.