Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #14 in London, United Kingdom

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 16.1 km
Ascend 237 m
Descend 232 m

Experience London in United Kingdom in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in LondonIndividual Sights in London

Sight 1: Museum of the Home

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The Museum of the Home, formerly the Geffrye Museum, is a free museum in the 18th-century Grade I-listed former almshouses on Kingsland Road in Hoxton, London. The museum's change of name was announced in 2019. The museum explores home and home life from 1600 to the present day with galleries which ask questions about 'home', present diverse lived experiences, and examine the psychological and emotional relationships people have with the idea of "home" alongside a series of period room displays.

Wikipedia: Museum of the Home (EN), Website

397 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 2: Hoxton Hall

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Hoxton Hall is a performance arts theatre and community centre in the Hoxton area of Shoreditch, at 130 Hoxton Street, in the London Borough of Hackney.

Wikipedia: Hoxton Hall (EN)

510 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 3: Saint John the Baptist Church, Hoxton

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The Church of St John the Baptist, Hoxton, usually known as St John's Hoxton, is an Anglican parish church in the Hoxton area of Hackney, London N1.

Wikipedia: St John the Baptist, Hoxton (EN), Website, Heritage Website

1551 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 4: Sharks!

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Sharks! Russell Gray / CC BY 4.0

Sharks! is an art installation in London, England by architect Jaimie Shorten. The art was built following its concept winning the 2020 Antepavilion, an annual art contest.

Wikipedia: Sharks! (EN)

909 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 5: Northampton Square

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Northampton Square, a green town square, is in a corner of Clerkenwell projecting into Finsbury, in Central London. It is between Goswell Road and St John Street, has a very broad pedestrian walkway on the north-west side between university buildings and is fronted chiefly by main buildings of City, University of London.

Wikipedia: Northampton Square (EN)

205 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Islington Museum

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Islington Museum is a public museum dedicated to the history of the London Borough of Islington. It opened in 2008 and covers various themes on local and social history.

Wikipedia: Islington Museum (EN), Website

407 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: Church of our Most Holy Redeemer

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Our Most Holy Redeemer is a late 19th-century church in Clerkenwell, London, England, by the architect John Dando Sedding. It is an Anglo-Catholic church in the Diocese of London of the Church of England. It is at the junction of Exmouth Market and Rosebery Avenue in the London Borough of Islington. The church with attached clergy house, campanile, and parish hall is a Grade II*-listed building.

Wikipedia: Our Most Holy Redeemer (EN), Website, Heritage Website

678 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 8: Mail Rail Museum

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The Postal Museum is a postal museum run by the Postal Heritage Trust. It began in 2004 as The British Postal Museum & Archive and opened in Central London as The Postal Museum on 28 July 2017.

Wikipedia: Postal Museum, London (EN), Website

503 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 9: Mecklenburgh Square Gardens

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Mecklenburgh Square is a Grade II listed square in Bloomsbury, London. The square and its garden were part of the Foundling Estate, a residential development of 1792–1825 on fields surrounding and owned by the Foundling Hospital. The square was named in honour of King George III's queen, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. It was begun in 1804, but was not completed until 1825.

Wikipedia: Mecklenburgh Square (EN)

469 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 10: Brunswick Square Gardens

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Brunswick Square is a 3-acre (1.2 ha) public garden and ancillary streets along two of its sides in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden. It is overlooked by the School of Pharmacy and the Foundling Museum to the north; the Brunswick Centre to the west; and International Hall to the south. East is an enclosed area of playgrounds with further trees, Coram's Fields, associated with charity Coram Family which is just over double its size; next to that area Brunswick Square is mirrored, symmetrically by Mecklenburgh Square, likewise of 3 acres including roads. The squares are named after contemporary Queen consorts.

Wikipedia: Brunswick Square (EN)

742 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 11: Tavistock Square

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Tavistock Square is a public square in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden near Euston Station.

Wikipedia: Tavistock Square (EN)

0 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 12: Mahatma Gandhi

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A bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi by Fredda Brilliant was unveiled in 1968 at the centre of Tavistock Square in London, to mark the impending centenary of Gandhi's birth in 1869. Mahatma Gandhi had studied law at University College London nearby from 1888 to 1891, before being called to the bar at the Inner Temple.

Wikipedia: Statue of Mahatma Gandhi, Tavistock Square (EN)

311 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 13: Gordon Square

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Gordon Square Ewan-M / CC BY-SA 2.0

Gordon Square is a public park square in Bloomsbury, London, England. It is part of the Bedford Estate and was designed as one of a pair with the nearby Tavistock Square. It is owned by the University of London.

Wikipedia: Gordon Square (EN)

914 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 14: American International Church

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American International ChurchSteve Cadman from London, U.K. / CC BY-SA 2.0

The American International Church, currently located at the Whitefield Memorial Church on Tottenham Court Road in London, was established to cater for American expatriates resident in London. Organised in the American denominational tradition, the church was originally named the American Church in London but changed its name in 2013 to reflect that it caters to approximately 30 different nationalities.

Wikipedia: American International Church (EN), Website

772 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 15: Happy Science

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Happy Science The old () / CC BY-SA 4.0

Happy Science , formerly known as the Institute for Research in Human Happiness, is a new religious movement founded in Japan on 6 October 1986 by former Wall Street trader Ryuho Okawa, whose followers regarded him as the incarnation of a supreme being from Venus. Happy Science has been described as a cult.

Wikipedia: Happy Science (EN)

858 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 16: Wigmore Hall

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Wigmore Hall Russ London -- (Russ London) / CC BY-SA 2.5

The Wigmore Hall is a concert hall at 36 Wigmore Street, in west London. It was designed by Thomas Edward Collcutt and opened in 1901 as the Bechstein Hall; it is considered to have particularly good acoustics. It specialises in performances of chamber music, early music, vocal music and song recitals, and hosts over five hundred concerts each year, as well as a weekly concert broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

Wikipedia: Wigmore Hall (EN), Website, Facebook

295 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 17: Manchester Square

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Manchester Square

Manchester Square is an 18th-century garden square in Marylebone, London. Centred 950 feet (290 m) north of Oxford Street it measures 300 feet (91 m) internally north-to-south, and 280 feet (85 m) across. It is a small Georgian predominantly 1770s-designed instance in central London; construction began around 1776. The north side has a central mansion, Hertford House, flanked by approach ways; its first name was Manchester House — its use is since 1897 as the Wallace Collection (gallery/museum) of fine and decorative arts sits alongside the Madame Tussauds museum and the Wigmore Hall concert rooms. The square forms part of west Marylebone, most of which sees minor but overarching property interests held by one owner among which many buildings have been recognised by statutory protection.

Wikipedia: Manchester Square (EN)

150 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 18: The Wallace Collection

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The Wallace Collection is a museum in London occupying Hertford House in Manchester Square, the former townhouse of the Seymour family, Marquesses of Hertford. It is named after Sir Richard Wallace, who built the extensive collection, along with the Marquesses of Hertford, in the 18th and 19th centuries. The collection features fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with important holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms and armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries. It is open to the public and entry is free.

Wikipedia: Wallace Collection (EN), Url

211 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 19: Saint James's

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St James' Church is a large English Gothic Catholic church in George Street, Marylebone, London. Although currently situated in George Street, the church maintains its connection with Spanish Place, the road opposite the current church, because of its historic connection with the Spanish Embassy. It is a Grade II* listed building.

Wikipedia: St James's, Spanish Place (EN), Heritage Website

748 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 20: Royal Institute of British Architects

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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its royal charter granted in 1837, three supplemental charters and a new charter granted in 1971.

Wikipedia: Royal Institute of British Architects (EN), Website, Opening Hours

366 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 21: Quintin and Alice Hogg Memorial

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Quintin and Alice Hogg MemorialR/DV/RS from Belgium/UK / CC BY 2.0

The Quintin and Alice Hogg Memorial is a memorial for English philanthropist Quintin Hogg and his wife Alice stands on Portland Place in central London, opposite BBC Broadcasting House. The bronze memorial depicts Quintin Hogg with two boys, and stands on a plinth of Portland stone. It was designed by George Frampton and erected in 1906. The memorial also honours Hogg's wife, Alice, and those members of the Regent Street Polytechnic killed in World War I and World War II.

Wikipedia: Quintin and Alice Hogg Memorial (EN)

362 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 22: All Souls Church

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All Souls ChurchRobert Cutts from Bristol, England, UK / CC BY 2.0

All Souls Church is a conservative evangelical Anglican church in central London, situated in Langham Place in Marylebone, at the north end of Regent Street. It was designed in Regency style by John Nash and consecrated in 1824.

Wikipedia: All Souls Church, Langham Place (EN), Website, Heritage Website

408 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 23: Roman Catholic Parish of St. Charles Borromeo

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The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Charles Borromeo is a Roman Catholic church on Ogle Street in the Diocese of Westminster, London.

Wikipedia: St Charles Borromeo Church, Westminster (EN), Website, Heritage Website

238 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 24: BT Tower

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The BT Tower is a grade II listed communications tower in Fitzrovia, London, England, owned by BT Group. It was also known as the GPO Tower and the Post Office Tower. It was later officially renamed the Telecom Tower. The main structure is 581 feet (177 m) high, with a further section of aerial rigging bringing the total height to 620 feet (189 m).

Wikipedia: BT Tower (EN)

1245 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 25: Bedford Square

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Bedford Square Russ London -- (Russ London). / CC BY-SA 2.5

Bedford Square is a garden square in the Bloomsbury district of the Borough of Camden in London, England.

Wikipedia: Bedford Square (EN)

461 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 26: Dominion Theatre

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The Dominion Theatre is a West End theatre and former cinema on Tottenham Court Road, close to St Giles Circus and Centre Point, in the London Borough of Camden. Planned as primarily a musical theatre, it opened in 1929, but the following year became a cinema—it hosted the London premiere of Charlie Chaplin's City Lights with Chaplin in attendance—and in 1933 after liquidation of the controlling company was sold to Gaumont cinema chain, which later became part of the Rank Organisation. It was a major premiere cinema until the 1970s, when it began to host live concerts.

Wikipedia: Dominion Theatre (EN), Website

627 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 27: Bloomsbury Square

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Bloomsbury Square

Bloomsbury Square is a garden square in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden, London. Developed in the late 17th century, it was initially known as Southampton Square and was one of the earliest London squares. By the early 19th century, Bedford House along the north of the square had been demolished and replaced with terraced housing designed by James Burton.

Wikipedia: Bloomsbury Square (EN)

507 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 28: Russell Square

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Russell Square is a large garden square in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden, built predominantly by the firm of James Burton. It is near the University of London's main buildings and the British Museum. Almost exactly square, to the north is Woburn Place and to the south-east is Southampton Row. Russell Square tube station sits to the north-east.

Wikipedia: Russell Square (EN)

1033 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 29: Red Lion Square

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Red Lion Square is a small square in Holborn, London. The square was laid out in 1684 by Nicholas Barbon, taking its name from the Red Lion Inn. According to some sources, the bodies of three regicides—Oliver Cromwell, John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton—were placed in a pit on the site of the square.

Wikipedia: Red Lion Square (EN)

193 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 30: Novelty Automation

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Novelty Automation is an amusement arcade of satirical game machines in Holborn, London. The machines are constructed by cartoonist and engineer Tim Hunkin, often by hand, and the arcade includes an expressive photo booth, an interactive divorce and a "small hadron collider". The arcade also includes three of Hunkin's machines which were once on display at Cabaret Mechanical Theatre's Covent Garden exhibition: The Frisker, Test Your Nerve and The Chiropodist.

Wikipedia: Novelty Automation (EN), Website

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