Greater London Trip Overview
This walking tour will take us to places that both inspired Charles Dickens the writer but also those real locations that shaped Dickens the man. All writers take inspiration from the people they meet and places they visit, and Charles Dickens was no different. His novels are so successful because he so enjoyed wandering the streets of London and picking up the rich details of everyday life.
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Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Greater London, United Kingdom
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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This walking tour will take us to places that both inspired Charles Dickens the writer but also those real locations that shaped Dickens the man. All writers take inspiration from the people they meet and places they visit, and Charles Dickens was no different. His novels are so successful because he so enjoyed wandering the streets of London and picking up the rich details of everyday life.
Itinerary
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Stop At: St George the Martyr, Marshalsea Street / Tabard Street / Long Lane Opp. Borough Station Borough Borough High Street Southwark, London SE1 1JA England
See locations relating to Little Dorrit and visit where Dickens family were imprisoned.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: The Marshalsea Prison, Angel Pl, London SE1 1JA, UK
The site of the old debtors prison that so influenced the young Charles Dickens.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: London Bridge, London SE1 9DD England
Stand on Nancys Steps where poor Nancy met her end
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Winchester Palace, Clink Street, London SE1 9DG England
Learn about Winchester Geese and the lives of the poor and forgotten as we follow in the footsteps of how Dickens would walk to work.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Borough Market, 8 Southwark Street, London SE1 1TL England
Visit sites of poverty that inspired Dickens to write. See the places where the pick-pockets operated in Oliver Twist and much more
Duration: 25 minutes
Pass By: Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, 145 Fleet St, London EC4A 2BU, UK
See some of the pubs that Dickens himself drank in and where characters visited in the novels.
Stop At: Temple Church, The Temple King’s Bench Walk, London EC4Y 7BB England
As well as seeing the outside of this very famous church we will visit the legal districts where characters such as Pip would have their chambers.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Dr. Johnson’s House, 17 Gough Square, London EC4A 3DE England
We visit other literary places along the way, including the outside of the home of the man who wrote the Dictionary.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: The Old Curiosity Shop, 2es, 13-14 Portsmouth St, London WC2A 2ES, UK
Visit the outside of the actual Old Curiousity Shop, perhaps the oldest shop in London and right next to what was then a place of terrible poverty.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London England
This area is full of Dickensian history especially relating to Bleak House and is also the home to the biographer of Charles Dickens
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: 190 High Holborn, London WC1V 6LF England
Visit the alleyway where poor Krook spontaneously combusted infront of his shop.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Bloomsbury, London England
Pass through parts of Bloomsbury and see where Charles Dickens lived after he had become successful and enjoy the sumptuous streets of this literary hotspot.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Charles Dickens Museum 48 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LX England
We finish the tour at the front door of the Charles Dickens Museum, his perfectly preserved house which you’ll no doubt want to explore and perhaps have a well deserved cup of tea in the delightful restaurant at the back.
Duration: 1 hour