Greater London Trip Overview
Play a city game where you walk in the footsteps of one of Britain’s greatest writers, Charles Dickens.
You will learn about Dickens’s rags to riches life story and discover the locations that inspired his stories, from pickpockets’ lairs, prisons and courts, to historic pubs and hidden alleyways.
Are you ready for an adventure in Dickens’ London?
Highlights:
Learn about Dickens’s extraordinary life, from child labourer to celebrated writer.
Explore the once brutal and crime-ridden streets of Clerkenwell and the stately legal district of Holborn where Dickens studied and worked.
Discover the darkened bars and inns where lawyers once jostled with scoundrels and Dickens met the colourful characters that would crowd his novels.
Try a new type of experience, the perfect mix between a tour, an outdoor escape game, and a treasure hunt.
Additional Info
Duration: 1 hour
Starts: Greater London, United Kingdom
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
Explore Greater London Promoted Experiences
What to Expect When Visiting Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Play a city game where you walk in the footsteps of one of Britain’s greatest writers, Charles Dickens.
You will learn about Dickens’s rags to riches life story and discover the locations that inspired his stories, from pickpockets’ lairs, prisons and courts, to historic pubs and hidden alleyways.
Are you ready for an adventure in Dickens’ London?
Highlights:
Learn about Dickens’s extraordinary life, from child labourer to celebrated writer.
Explore the once brutal and crime-ridden streets of Clerkenwell and the stately legal district of Holborn where Dickens studied and worked.
Discover the darkened bars and inns where lawyers once jostled with scoundrels and Dickens met the colourful characters that would crowd his novels.
Try a new type of experience, the perfect mix between a tour, an outdoor escape game, and a treasure hunt.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Pass By: Charles Dickens Museum 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LX England
The Charles Dickens Museum is an author’s house museum at 48 Doughty Street in Holborn, London Borough of Camden. It occupies a typical Georgian terraced house which was Charles Dickens’s home from 25 March 1837 (a year after his marriage) to December 1839.
Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.
Pass By: Vine Hill, London, UK
It was laid out around 1686 and originally ran further, along what is now the Man in the Moon Passage. John Rocque’s Map of London, 1746 shows Vine Street extending from Piccadilly northeast to Warwick Street. In 1720, the main properties on the street were a brewery and a carpenter’s yard.
Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.
Pass By: The One Tun Pub & Rooms, 125 Saffron Hill, London EC1N 8QS, UK
This stylish inn dates to 1759, but its moment of fame came in 1838, when Charles Dickens changed its name to the Three Cripples and made it Bill Sykes’ watering hole of choice in Oliver Twist.
Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.
Pass By: Staple Inn, London WC1V 7QH England
Staple Inn dates from 1585. The building was once the wool staple, where wool was weighed and taxed. It survived the Great Fire of London, was extensively damaged by a Nazi German Luftwaffe aerial bomb in 1944 but was subsequently restored.
Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.
Pass By: Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London England
The Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre was located in the Fields from 1661 to 1848, when it was demolished. This, originally called the Duke’s Theatre, was created by converting Lisle’s Tennis Court in 1695.
Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.
Pass By: Maughan Library, Chancery Lane King’s College, London WC2R 2LS England
Following a £35m renovation designed by Gaunt Francis Architects, the Maughan is the largest new university library in the United Kingdom since World War II. Designed by Sir James Pennethorne and constructed in 1851, with further extensions made between 1868 and 1900, it is a Grade II* listed building.
Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.
Pass By: Dr. Johnson’s House, 17 Gough Square, London EC4A 3DE England
The house now known as Dr Johnson’s House was probably originally built for a City merchant. Its most famous resident, and one of the most distinguished figures in English literary history, Samuel Johnson (1709-84), rented it from 1748 to 1759.
Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.
Pass By: Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, 145 Fleet St, London EC4A 2BU, UK
Originally, Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese was built in the 1530’s, although the original pub was lost in The Great Fire of London in 1666. The current pub dates from 1667 – having been one of the first London buildings reconstructed after the Great Fire.
Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.
Pass By: Saint Peter’s Italian Church, 136 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1R 5DL England
It was consecrated on 16 April 1863 as “The Church of St Peter of all Nations”. At the time of consecration, it was the only basilica-style church in the UK. Its organ was built in 1886 by Belgian Anneesen. During World War II, when Italian immigrants were interned, Irish Pallottines made use of the church.
Pass By: The Royal College of Surgeons of England, 38-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PE, UK
The Royal College of Surgeons has a long history. Its earliest origins lie in the 1540s when the Company of Barbers and the Fellowship of Surgeons joined together to form the Company of Barber-Surgeons. In the 1700s medicine became an academic discipline and surgeons demanded more recognition for their expertise.
Pass By: Romanian Saint George Church, St Mary Le Strand Church, Strand, London WC2R 1ES, UK
Romanian Orthodox chapel St Dunstan-in-the-West is one of the churches in England to share its building with the Romanian Orthodox community (St. George church). The chapel to the left of the main altar is closed off by an iconostasis, formerly from Antim Monastery in Bucharest, dedicated in 1966.
