Charles Dickens’s London

Walk the streets that inspired the famous English author

Half Day
London
Walking

What

What does the tour involve?

London was a lifelong inspiration for the famous author and philanthropist Charles Dickens. He brought us some of the greatest novels and extraordinary characters in English literature, but the backdrop is always the poverty-strewn streets of the Capital. Charles Dickens walked London every day. From the City through his old legal offices, he would traverse up to 20 miles a day to observe the characters of Holborn, Clerkenwell, Saffron Hill, Bloomsbury and Soho. The streets are still there, and the gaslamp atmosphere of Victorian Britain can still be found if you know where to look.

Where

What will I see?

The site of the Prison where Dickens’s dad was gaoled. Little Dorrit was set here
Dickens’s local pub. Now the only 17th century coaching inn left in London.
Covent Garden, home of the notorious blacking factory where Dickens started out his working life at the age of 12
The place where Dickens lived and edited All the Year Round”
A walk around London theatreland including the place where Dickens had his novels put on the stage. .
Leadenhall Market. In the nearby ancient allies, Scrooge had his counting house in Christmas Carol
Cornhill where Bob Cratchit went sledding over 20 times!
Legal London ‘where ‘lawyers lie like maggots in nuts’. Grays Inn. Dickens worked as a lawyer’s clerk there.
Lincoln/s Inn, the setting of the notorious Court of Chancery in Bleak House and Middle Temple where Pip had his lodgings in Great Expectations!
A visit to his only standing home (he lived in many places), now a museum and a shrine to his enduring brilliance.