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Rivers of London Walking Tour
London

Walk with PC Grant through the London that tourists never see, where river gods are real and every old building has a story it would rather keep quiet.

7 stops · 3.3 km

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Every Stop Has a Story

The Folly

The Folly, the secret headquarters of English wizardry, is fictional, but Aaronovitch put it on this Bloomsbury square, and its surviving Georgian terraces fit Peter's description.

Peter Meets Nicholas Wallpenny

Rivers of London begins with a murder at this church's portico, and the witness Peter Grant interviews here turns out to be a ghost.

The French House

Charles de Gaulle's Free French met in this Soho pub during the Second World War, when it was still called the York Minster, and in Moon Over Soho it is where Peter meets a jazz band.

Peter Eats at Wong Kei

Soho's Chinatown, where Peter eats late at night in Moon Over Soho, is actually London's second: the first grew up in Limehouse in the 1880s among Chinese sailors who settled near the docks.

Peter Navigates the Vestigia

London's home of film premieres started life as a field beside a 1630s mansion, and Shakespeare has shared it with Mary Poppins and Mr Bean since 2020.

Where the River Gods Rule

Keep an eye on the bronze lion heads along the Embankment wall: legend says that if the Thames ever rises high enough for them to drink, London will sink.

The Threshold of the Mundane

Peter Grant is a Met officer first and a wizard second, and the Met's headquarters takes its name from a medieval palace once used by visiting Scottish kings.

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