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Burnings, Butchery & Black Death: A Walking Tour of London's Bloody Past
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Barbican
Important Information
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Service animals allowed
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Public transportation options are available nearby
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Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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Travel through a thousand years of history, meeting medieval knights, body snatchers, Charles Dickens, an eighteenth century ghost, and William Wallace - aka Braveheart (and learn how he was in no fit state to shout "Freeeedoooommmm!" whilst being executed!)
On our walking tour we'll visit the areas around Smithfield, for centuries London's site of both animal and human slaughter. We'll learn about how the city disposed of the tens of thousands of Black Death corpses in the fourteenth century, the execution methods used in the Middle Ages, and how the area became a notorious slum which Dickens used as the setting for Oliver Twist.
The walking tour begins outside Barbican Station, ends nea...
Highlights
2 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
2 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Tour
Gratuities
Meeting Points
Departure
Barbican
We meet outside Barbican Station exit. Please aim to arrive five minutes early as the tour will start on time. If you aren't able to make the tour or you will be late, please message me on +44 7783 401 129 so that I know whether to send you our live location on WhatsApp.
Return
Ely Place
On Ely Place, around the corner from Farringdon Station
Burnings, Butchery & Black Death: A Walking Tour of London's Bloody Past
(271) Reviews
Barbican
About
Travel through a thousand years of history, meeting medieval knights, body snatchers, Charles Dickens, an eighteenth century ghost, and William Wallace - aka Braveheart (and learn how he was in no fit state to shout "Freeeedoooommmm!" whilst being executed!)
On our walking tour we'll visit the areas around Smithfield, for centuries London's site of both animal and human slaughter. We'll learn about how the city disposed of the tens of thousands of Black Death corpses in the fourteenth century, the execution methods used in the Middle Ages, and how the area became a notorious slum which Dickens used as the setting for Oliver Twist.
The walking tour begins outside Barbican Station, ends nea...
Highlights
2 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
2 hours
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Tour
Gratuities
Meeting Points
Departure
Barbican
We meet outside Barbican Station exit. Please aim to arrive five minutes early as the tour will start on time. If you aren't able to make the tour or you will be late, please message me on +44 7783 401 129 so that I know whether to send you our live location on WhatsApp.
Return
Ely Place
On Ely Place, around the corner from Farringdon Station
Itinerary
1
The Charterhouse
A fourteenth century monastery and plague pit
10 minutes
2
Smithfield Market
A one thousand year old meat market
10 minutes
3
St John's Gate
The home of the medieval Knights Hospitallers
10 minutes
4
Cloth Fair
A quiet alley with a noisy history
10 minutes
5
WIlliam Wallace Memorial
The memorial to William Wallace, aka Braveheart
10 minutes
6
Church of St. Bartholomew the Great
London's oldest surviving parish church
10 minutes
7
Golden Boy of Pye Corner
The site where the Great Fire of 1666 died out, and of eighteenth century ghost hysteria
10 minutes
8
Holborn Viaduct
The site of the River Fleet, Victorian London's largest open air sewer
