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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.

7 stops · 1.4 km

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Every Stop Has a Story

Scrooge 1951

Cathedral Street played Scrooge's London in the 1951 film Scrooge, from young Scrooge and Marley's walk to Bob Cratchit hurrying in to work.

The Lord Mayor's Christmas

Dickens's Lord Mayor orders his fifty cooks and butlers to keep Christmas here, in a house that held its own courtroom until 1991.

Scrooge's Place of Business

Scrooge's name was "good upon 'Change," and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come brings him here to hear merchants chatting about a man who died last night.

Scrooge's Dinner

Scrooge's tavern is never named in the book, but Simpson's, London's oldest chophouse, opened in 1757 and reopened in October 2026 as Cloth Cornhill with its old booths restored.

Scrooge's Counting House

The Gothic tower of St Michael, Cornhill is a fine match for Dickens's "ancient tower," and Bob Cratchit slides down Cornhill twenty times on Christmas Eve.

Scrooge Buys Bob Cratchit a Turkey

Leadenhall's poulterers make it easy to picture Scrooge's prize turkey here, and the market played the way to Diagon Alley in the first Harry Potter film.

Scrooge's Home

Dickens never says where Scrooge lives, but Lime Street, named for the lime once made or sold here, is a fitting place to imagine his gloomy chambers.

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