London Secret Garden and Ruins Tour

This private walking tour takes us to many hidden, silent, sacred and secret gardens and ruins in the City of London. Even Londoners don't know about most of these sites and that is why they are such wonderful and historic places. Beautiful old gothic church yard gardens, each a peaceful, historic oasis in busy London.

Meeting Point

Caffè Nero

30 Newgate St, Paternoster Sq., London EC4M 8AD, UK

The tour starts just outside Caffe Nero outside St Pauls Underground Station

What's included:

• Local guide
• Private tour
• Professional guide
• Tour escort/host
• Hotel pickup

Not included:

• Transportation to/from attractions

What to expect:

Duration: 3 hours

St. Paul's Cathedral

St Paul's Churchyard, London, EC4M 8AD

The tour starts under the majestic gaze of one of the most beautiful buildings in the world.

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Saint Paul's Churchyard

St. Paul's Churchyard, London, UK

Explore the beautiful landscaped gardens of St Pauls Cathedral.

10 minutes

Festival Gardens

The Chapterhouse St. Paul's Churchyard, London, EC4M 8AD

Delightfully colourful gardens with an incredible backdrop.

5 minutes

Reflection Garden

25 Cannon St, London EC4M 9AF, UK

This beautiful garden was redeveloped during Covid and features a water feature and view not to be missed.

5 minutes

Distaff Lane Garden

Distaff Ln, London EC4V 5EY, UK

Beautiful shady garden, a haven for silver birch with a cooling water feature at the rear amongst other things.

5 minutes

Cleary Garden

Queen Victoria Street, London

Beautiful gardens with an Italian inspiration due to the Roman ruins that lay beneath.

5 minutes

Whittington Garden

London EC4R 1EB, UK

This secret garden is dedicated to one of the most famous Lord Mayors of London who amongst other things built the nearby church.

5 minutes

St Swithin London Stone Church Garden

Salters Hall Ct, London EC4N 8AL, UK

Almost completely hidden from view, this beautiful garden has a definitive Welsh theme with a sad history behind it.

5 minutes

The Monument to the Great Fire of London

Fish St. Hill, , London, EC3R 8AH

See the incredible monument to the Great Fire of London

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

St. Dunstan In The East

St. Dunstan's Hill, London, EC3R 5DD

Visit the most beautiful ruin in the old City of London.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Seething Lane Garden

Seething Ln, London EC3N 4AT, UK

One time home of the most famous diarist in history, Samuel Pepys, the garden has some incredible decorative stones illustrating the unique and memorable life of this fascinating man,

5 minutes

St Olave's Church

8 Hart Street, London, EC3R 7NB

This historic church and garden has been through Great Fires, Plagues, World Wars and as such as some incredible history.

10 minutes

All Hallows Staining Church Tower

Star Alley, London EC3R 7LQ, UK

80 years after The Blitz this garden is finally being redeveloped but its true secret is why it is hear at all and for that we have to go back to one of the darkest moments in Londons history, many centuries ago.

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

Garden at 120

120 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 5AL

Visit London's newest sky garden which offers a fantastic view of where we have been and where we will be going. The garden has a capacity of 207 people so it is possible that on rare occasions we cannot get in. So far so good though!

15 minutes

Fen Court Garden

Hogarth Ct, London EC3M, UK

A beautiful modern garden with a poignant work of art regarding the slave trade on the spot where two men campaigned tirelessly for its destruction.

5 minutes

Leadenhall Market

Gracechurch Street, , London, EC3V 1LT

A stunning Victorian market built on top of a Roman market, beautiful and iconic, seen in many shows and movies.

5 minutes

St Peter-upon-Cornhill Church

Cornhill, London EC3V 3PD, UK

The garden of this ancient church is relatively plain but it has a grave within it that is possibly the most famous grave in English literature, set as it is amongst ancient lanes and alleys.

5 minutes

St. Michael's Cornhill

St. Michaels Rectory St. Michael's Alley, London, EC3V 9DS

No cars or any vehicles can get close to this secret garden, huddled away in the medieval passageways. A beautiful garden with a nice sun trap too. Surrounded by old churches, pubs and the oldest coffee shop too.

5 minutes

Guildhall

71 Basinghall Street, London, EC2V 7HH

Right in the middle of London we will stand on top of the old Roman amphitheatre

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

St. Lawrence Jewry

Gresham Street, Next To Guildhall, London, EC2V 5AA

This little space in the heart of the old Jewish district of London and almost entirely rebuilt after WW2.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Churchyard of St John Zachary

25 Gresham St, London EC2V 7HN, UK

This sunken garden has a history both ancient and the merely old.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Noble Street

Noble St, London EC2V, UK

These unusual gardens hold an ancient secret uncovered in WW2, ruins of the old Roman City Wall.

5 minutes

St Mary Aldermanbury Garden

1 Love Lane, London, EC2V 7JN

This little garden has strong associations to William Shakespeare and even Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

St Mary Staining

Oat Ln, Barbican, London EC2V 7DE, UK

A magnificent old tree steels the show here with incredible modern architecture all around.

5 minutes

Postman's Park

King Edward Street, , London, EC1A 7BT

Visit this beautiful but rarely visited park with its touching memorial to everyday heroes.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Included