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London Urban Walks

 The only private walking tours in London

Hey there, London Urban Walks offers personalized private walking tours in London's most fascinating neighbourhoods and streets. You choose where to start your tour, either at your hotel/address or at the London Urban Walks office on New Oxford Street. One of our guides will meet you at your preferred location, and from there you will start the tour. Your guide will make sure to fulfil your expectations and meet your interests and desires. The duration of each of our tours is 3 to 4 hours, depending on the length of the round trip including travel from/to the starting point, the pace of walking and the number of participants. For a group of up to 10 people the joint price is just £200 for a 4 hour tour. For more than 10 people, each additional person will pay £20. To ensure an exciting and amazing tour, London Urban Walks carefully selects its guides and ensures that they are all passionate and knowledgeable urbanists, architects or geographers. These walking tours go through both historical places and the newest and most modern projects recently built in London. The walking tours expose its participants to the latest urban trends and innovations, to various urban environments and attractions, hidden urban corners and monuments, different urban textures and landscapes, as well as multicultural expressions of a melting pot.

To book your time slot for a walking tour please visit our Book Online in this website

The photo above was taken by urban planner Dr Tal Berman on Saturday December 13th 2020 at 3:30pm just before sunset from Sky Gardens at the top floor of 'The Walkie Talkie', a 38-storey skyscraper at 20 Fenchurch Street in the historic City of London financial districtDr Tal Berman is one of our guides.

London Urban Walks offers tailored made walking tours that match your personal interests and walking pace.

Following are a few examples of our recommended walking tours:

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'Soho at Night' brings you right into the heart of London and contemporary British culture. You are guided through Soho streets to see variety of cultural and recreational landmarks; historic pubs and theatres alongside silk bars and fashionable nightclubs; smart lofts and offices of creative firms in converted warehouses alongside passageways adorned with creative graffiti. Moreover, Soho provides you with a thrilling outdoor show of many different kinds of lights, old and new illumination techniques and effects, from retro neon lamps to state of the art architectural lighting, as well as advertising billboards and screens displaying digital videos. 

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‘King's Cross’ is a fascinating walk that tells you how urban spaces have been transformed in the last few centuries according to social needs and technological developments. The walk across King’s Cross area combines interesting examinations of urban amenities, urban nature, structure conversion, architectural preservation, indoor versus outdoor, large public spaces and state of the art urban design.

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‘The City’ is an exciting walk across one of the largest, most valuable and most expensive financial district in the world. You are walking among magnificent skyscrapers, sparkling iconic buildings and glamorous architectural monuments. You are exposed to many types of high-end urban materials, cutting edge designs and construction methods. This tour induces intense and addictive urban feel. In addition, The 'city' tour, perhaps more than other tours, allows participants to get an impression of the striking differences visible between the old and new urban architecture

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'Southbank' comprehensive riverside walk along the south bank of River Thames starts at the iconic Albert Embankment promenade where the House of Parliament and Big Ben are beautifully visible. The walk takes you all the way to the iconic Tower Bridge. This fabulous walk takes you via spectacular sweeping views , must-see London attractions, significant buildings and infrastructures and cultural assets that have been developed throughout history along River Thames, namely Southbank Centre, Waterloo Bridge, Millennium Bridge, Borough Market, London Bridge, the converted factory of Tate Modern and London's postmodern City Hall building. 

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'Battersea' dynamic walk starts at the grandiose state-of-the-art development of Battersea Power Station and the adjacent ultra modern neighbourhoods; and continues via Nine Elm and Vauxhall- London's fastest developing districts, with some of the tallest residential skyscrapers, providing an energetic skyline and a futuristic cityscape. This great walk terminates at The National Covid Memorial Wall - one of the kingdom's most prominent and active urban public space. 

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‘Regent's Canal West’ challenging walk along Regent's Canal takes you from King's Cross through the well known vivid market zone of Camden Town,  and continues through Regent's Park and Little Venice, before finishing at Paddington Basin. This canalside walk feels like an urban-nature advanture and it brings you to the hidden pastoral scenery and less familiar beauty of London. During this walk you will climb up to the top of Primrose Hill to observe London from one of its best observation spots!​

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'Regent's Canal East' is a fabulous walk along the Regent's Canal starting at King's Cross and ending at Limehouse Basin and the Thames Marina in the east. Along the way it crosses parts of Islington, Shoreditch, Hackney, London Fields, Victoria Park and other up-and-coming areas. During the walk you can examine boats that have been converted into houses, meet their inhabitants and get to know London's canal culture. It's a great walk that provides eclectic cityscapes, where urban buildings and bridges meet the calm, pastoral waters, and where alternative urban activities have developed along the canal.

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'Tower Bridge' walk starts at Blackfriars famous pub and takes you along the north bank of River Thames and across Tower Bridge to hipster neighbourhood of Shad Thames. This original walk is full of urban surprises, atmospheric urban corners; and it provides some of London's most dramatic sceneries. This interesting walk passes through unforgettable scenes of hanging bridges, London largest converted warehouses, Tower Hill castle, St. Katharine Docks Marina and preserved columns of what was a few decades ago St. Paul's Bridge.

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'East London street markets' tour brings you to the most vibrant, colourful and multicultural street markets you can imagine, from Whitchapel to Hoxton, from Holborn to Barking, from Shadwell to Hackney.... all of the best street exotic scenarios that London can offer. A four-hour tour includes at least three street markets in different location in East London which will be chosen according to operating hours. In the variety and abundance of smells, products, fruits and vegetables, you will surely find ones you have never seen, smelled or tasted! 

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'Customized tour option' gives you and anyone the opportunity to tour any place in Greater London and fulfil your real dreams and desires. There are endless options for walking tours and our guides will tailor one according to your real desires and physical capabilities. Few of our recent 'customized walking tours' have taken place in Hampstead Heath Park, Crystal Place, Alexandra Palace, Muswell Hill, Canary Wharf and Greenwich. Another tour we like to organize is climbing to high floors using tower elevators in order to admire the mesmerising urban ladscapes and arial views of London.

To book your time slot for a walking tour please visit our Book Online in this website. Please do not hesitate to contact our office at office@londonurbanwalks.net or +44(0)7397240911 if you wish to discuss with us or hear more about tailor-made walking tours options and itineraries. 

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