Musical

Sweeney Todd Walking Tour
London

Follow the demon barber from his Brick Lane birthplace to the blood-soaked cellars of Fleet Street — the most notorious mile in London's criminal history.

8 stops · 3.5 km

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Sweeney Todd's Birthplace

Peter Haining's 1993 book placed Sweeney Todd's birth on Brick Lane in 1756, when it was little more than a country lane leading out to the brickfields.

Newgate Prison

In Peter Haining's telling of the legend, a 14-year-old Todd was locked up in this notorious prison and taught his trade by a barber he met inside.

St Dunstan-in-the-West

In the original story, a secret passage linked this church's vaults to Todd's cellar, until a dreadful smell rising from beneath the floor gave the game away.

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese

The Sweeney Todd audio walk made for the 2007 film stops at this 1667 pub, once famous for a pudding of up to 80 pounds whose spices were a closely guarded secret.

The Barber's Shop

Legend has long placed Sweeney Todd's barbershop at this address beside St Dunstan's, where his chair sat over a trapdoor leading straight to the cellar.

Mrs Lovett's Pie Shop

In the original story, a passage through the vaults beneath St Dunstan's linked Mrs Lovett's bakehouse to Todd's cellar, letting the two work entirely unseen.

Temple Bar Griffin

The heads of executed traitors once hung on spikes above the stone gateway that stood here, until a storm blew the last of them down in 1772.

The Royal Courts of Justice

This Gothic Revival palace of law, with 35 million bricks and three miles of corridors, was built after Todd's supposed era but embodies exactly the corrupt legal establishment Sondheim's musical rages against.

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