London Charles Dickens Walking Tour Experience

This walking tour will take us to places that both inspired Charles Dickens the writer but also those real locations that shaped Dickens the man.  All writers take inspiration from the people they meet and places they visit, and Charles Dickens was no different.  His novels are so successful because he so enjoyed wandering the streets of London and picking up the rich details of everyday life.

Meeting Point

Borough

Borough High St, London SE1 1JX, UK

Just outside the entrance next to the newspaper vendor

What's included:

• Local guide
• Private tour
• Professional guide
• Hotel pickup

Not included:

• London Underground Tube ticket
• Entrance to Charles Dickens House Museum

What to expect:

Duration: 3 hours

St George the Martyr

Marshalsea Street / Tabard Street / Long Lane Opp. Borough Station Borough Borough High Street, Southwark, London, SE1 1JA

See locations relating to Little Dorrit and visit where Dickens family were imprisoned.

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

The Marshalsea Prison

Angel Pl., London SE1 1JA, UK

The site of the old debtors prison that so influenced the young Charles Dickens.

10 minutes

Red Cross Cottages & Garden

Red Cross Garden 50 Redcross Way, London, SE1 1HA

These beautiful and largely unvisited gardens were created by a contemporary pf Charles Dickens and in her own way equally famous social reformer in what was one of the worst streets in London and close to where Dickens lived as a boy.

10 minutes

London Bridge

London, EC4R 9HA

Stand on Nancys Steps where poor Nancy met her end

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Borough Market

8 Southwark Street, , London, SE1 1TL

Visit sites of poverty that inspired Dickens to write. See the places where the pick-pockets operated in Oliver Twist and much more

25 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

21 New Globe Walk, , London, SE1 9DT

We will pass by this famous theatre and learn about the history and locations nearby.

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Old Bailey

Old Bailey, , London, EC4M 7EH

The oldest court in the western world in effect is next to the notorious old Newgate Prison and site of public executions to Victorians in fact and fiction.

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Winchester Palace

Clink Street, London, SE1 9DG

Learn about Winchester Geese and the lives of the poor and forgotten as we follow in the footsteps of how Dickens would walk to work.

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

St. Paul's Cathedral

St Paul's Churchyard, London, EC4M 8AD

Find out about an inadvertent impact St Pauls had on the life of Charles Dickens

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Temple Church

Temple, King's Bench Walk, London, EC4Y 7BB

As well as seeing the outside of this very famous church we will visit the legal districts where characters such as Pip would feature. Please note sometimes at weekends, access to this area is closed to the public.

15 minutes

The Old Curiosity Shop

2es, 13-14 Portsmouth St, London WC2A 2ES, UK

Visit the outside of the actual Old Curiousity Shop, perhaps the oldest shop in London and right next to what was then a place of terrible poverty.

15 minutes

Fleet Street

Fleet St, , London, EC4

The most famous newspaper street in the world which amongst other things not only played an important role in the life of Charles Dickens but the alleys and taverns also feature in his literature.

10 minutes

Lincoln's Inn Fields

, , London, WC2A 3BP

This area is full of Dickensian history especially relating to Bleak House and is also the home to the biographer of Charles Dickens

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese

145 Fleet St, London EC4A 2BP, UK

See some of the pubs that Dickens himself drank in and where characters visited in the novels.

Pass by without stopping

Dr. Johnson's House

17 Gough Square, , London, EC4A 3DE

We visit other literary places along the way, including the outside of the home of the man who wrote the Dictionary.

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

High Holborn

190 High Holborn, , London, WC1V 6LF

Visit the alleyway where poor Krook spontaneously combusted infront of his shop.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Bloomsbury

London

Pass through parts of Bloomsbury and see where Charles Dickens lived after he had become successful and enjoy the sumptuous streets of this literary hotspot.

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Charles Dickens Museum

48-49 Doughty Street, , London, WC1N 2LX

We finish the tour at the front door of the Charles Dickens Museum, his perfectly preserved house which you'll no doubt want to explore and perhaps have a well deserved cup of tea in the delightful restaurant at the back.

1 hour • Admission Ticket Not Included