Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #11 in London, United Kingdom

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 12 sights
Distance 7.8 km
Ascend 110 m
Descend 108 m

Explore London in United Kingdom with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in London

Sight 1: Mandela Way T-34 Tank

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The Mandela Way T-34 Tank, nicknamed Stompie, is a decommissioned Soviet-built T-34-85 medium tank, formerly located on the corner of Mandela Way and Page's Walk in Bermondsey, London, England. The tank was regularly repainted in a wide variety of colour schemes, often by graffiti artists. In January 2022 it was removed for restoration, and its owner stated in April 2023 that it may not return to its former location due to concerns that the graffiti may affect its historical preservation.

Wikipedia: Mandela Way T-34 Tank (EN)

359 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 2: Bricklayers Arms Roundabout

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Bricklayers Arms is the road intersection of the A2 and the London Inner Ring Road where Bermondsey meets Walworth and Elephant & Castle in south London. It is the junction of Tower Bridge Road, Old Kent Road, New Kent Road and Great Dover Street. It comprises a four-way green roundabout plus one-way flyover and one-way bypass lane.

Wikipedia: Bricklayers' Arms (EN)

1244 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 3: Metropolitan Tabernacle

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The Metropolitan Tabernacle is a large independent Reformed Baptist church in the Elephant and Castle in London. It was the largest non-conformist church of its day in 1861. The Tabernacle Fellowship have been worshipping together since 1650. Its first pastor was William Rider; other notable pastors and preachers include Benjamin Keach, John Gill, John Rippon and C. H. Spurgeon. The Tabernacle still worships and holds to its Biblical foundations and principles under its present pastor, Peter Masters.

Wikipedia: Metropolitan Tabernacle (EN), Heritage Website

576 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 4: The Cinema Museum

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The Cinema Museum

The Cinema Museum is a museum in Kennington, London. Its collection was founded in 1986 by Ronald Grant and Martin Humphries, from their own private collection of cinema history and memorabilia. Its current building was once a workhouse where Charlie Chaplin lived as a child.

Wikipedia: Cinema Museum, London (EN), Website

349 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: Southwark Playhouse Elephant

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Southwark Playhouse Elephant John Myers / CC BY-SA 2.0

Southwark Playhouse is a theatre in London, located between Borough and Elephant and Castle tube stations.

Wikipedia: Southwark Playhouse (EN), Website

1162 meters / 14 minutes

Sight 6: Durning Library

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Durning Library is a public lending library in Kennington, London. It is part of Lambeth Libraries in the London Borough of Lambeth and is in purpose-built Grade II listed building at 167 Kennington Lane, Kennington, London SE11.

Wikipedia: Durning Library (EN), Website

747 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 7: Gentlemens Underground Lavatory (former)

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ArtsLav was an arts venue located at Kennington Cross in Kennington, London, England. It started life as an underground Victorian gentlemen's public lavatory. It is now a listed and restored Kennington landmark used as a community arts facility, Artslav. Engineered by B. Finch and Co. in 1898. It went out of commission in 1988 during a period of public convenience closures in Lambeth.

Wikipedia: ArtsLav (EN)

984 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 8: St Mark's Churchyard

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St Mark's Churchyard Chloe Bowles / CC BY 2.0

St Mark's Church, Kennington, is an Anglican church on Kennington Park Road in Kennington, London, United Kingdom, near Oval tube station. The church is a Commissioners' church, receiving a grant from the Church Building Commission towards its cost. Authorised by the Church Building Act 1824, it was built on the site of the old gallows corner on Kennington Common.

Wikipedia: St Mark's Church, Kennington (EN), Website

232 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: Ovalhouse Theatre

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Ovalhouse, formerly called Oval House Theatre, was an Off-West End theatre in the London Borough of Lambeth, located at 52–54 Kennington Oval, London, SE11 5SW. It closed in 2020, and moved to Brixton, becoming the Brixton House theatre.

Wikipedia: Ovalhouse (EN), Url

800 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 10: St Peter Vauxhall

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St Peter's, Vauxhall, is a Church of England church on Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, London SE11.

Wikipedia: St Peter's Church, Vauxhall (EN)

391 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 11: Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens

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Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens

Vauxhall Gardens is a public park in Kennington in the London Borough of Lambeth, England, on the south bank of the River Thames.

Wikipedia: Vauxhall Gardens (EN), Website

954 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 12: Morpeth Arms

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Morpeth ArmsEwan Munro from London, UK / CC BY-SA 2.0

The Morpeth Arms is a public house at 58 Millbank, in the Pimlico district of London. It was built in 1845 to refresh prison warders serving at the Millbank Penitentiary.

Wikipedia: Morpeth Arms (EN), Website, Twitter

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