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A Christmas Carol Walking Tour
London

Walk the foggy City streets that Dickens conjured to shame Victorian London into caring about its poor.

6 stops · 1.4 km

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Every Stop Has a Story

Scrooge 1951

Much of the 1951 film Scrooge was shot on this street, standing in for Fezziwig's office and later Scrooge & Marley's, just steps from the site of the Clink prison.

Scrooge's Place of Business

Scrooge's own name was 'good upon 'Change' at this very Exchange, whose nearby coffee houses gave rise to Lloyd's of London and drew the Bank of England to relocate here in 1734.

Scrooge's Dinner

Scrooge's tavern is never named in the book, but Simpsons, London's oldest chophouse since 1757, was around in his fictional lifetime and is known to have actually fed Dickens himself.

Scrooge's Counting House

Cornhill takes its name from the medieval corn market once held at its eastern end, one of only two hills in the old City, and its alleys once held some of London's very first coffee houses.

Scrooge Buys Bob Cratchit a Turkey

This 14th-century market, redeveloped in the 19th century into the wrought-iron arcade you see today, doubles as Diagon Alley in the first Harry Potter film.

Scrooge's Home

Scrooge's lodgings are never named in the book, but Lime Street, likely named for its medieval lime-makers, is the strongest candidate, a deliberately unfashionable choice for a man of his means.

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