Literary London Walking Tour

Meet your guide at Temple Underground station and walk into the shadowed streets that shaped some of London's most unsettling writing. You start in the Temple and the Inns of Court, where gothic architecture fed dark Victorian literature and Dickens found his obsession with the law, then move to Fleet Street, birthplace of the sensational crime story and the legend of Sweeney Todd. From Samuel Johnson's House you head into Holborn and Dickens's dark London of workhouses, child labour and prisons, then Bloomsbury and the Victorian fascination with death, seances and Bram Stoker. The walk ends by the British Museum and in Fitzrovia, where Oscar Wilde's genius met censorship and public downfall.

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What's included

• Guided 2-hour walking tour of literary London
• Temple Church, Fleet Street, Samuel Johnson's House, Holborn and Bloomsbury
• Exterior visit to the British Museum and a walk through Fitzrovia

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