Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #16 in London, United Kingdom

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 18 sights
Distance 12.7 km
Ascend 253 m
Descend 249 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: St Paul's Bow Common

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St Paul's Bow Common is a 20th-century church in Bow Common, London, England. It is an Anglican church in the Diocese of London. The church is at the junction of Burdett Road and St Paul's Way in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It replaced an earlier church that was designed by Rohde Hawkins in 1858 and financed by William Cotton of Leytonstone. Consecrated by Bishop Charles James Blomfield, this church was largely destroyed in the Second World War and demolished in the 1950s.

Wikipedia: St Paul's, Bow Common (EN), Website

1447 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 2: Statue of Clement Attlee

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Statue of Clement Attlee

The statue of Clement Attlee on the Mile End campus of Queen Mary University of London is a bronze sculpture of the British Prime Minister, created by Frank Forster in 1988. The statue was commissioned by the Greater London Council and was intended to stand in Mile End Park. By the time of its completion in 1988, the GLC had been abolished and the statue was offered to any successor authority willing to pay the relocation costs. These were met by Tower Hamlets London Borough Council and the statue was erected outside the Limehouse Public Library to commemorate Attlee's role as the member for the Limehouse parliamentary constituency. The opening ceremony was carried out by Harold Wilson, the last living member of Attlee's 1945-51 administration. By the 21st century, the statue had been badly vandalised and was boarded up. In 2010, Tower Hamlets Council offered the statue to Queen Mary University of London on permanent loan. It was re-erected on a site at the Mile End Road campus, next to the People's Palace where Attlee had attended the vote counting in the 1945 general election and learnt of the victory which brought in his peace-time government.

Wikipedia: Statue of Clement Attlee (EN)

1581 meters / 19 minutes

Sight 3: Stepney Meeting House United Reformed Church

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Stepney Meeting House United Reformed Church

Stepney Meeting House was an independent church in Stepney, East London. It was founded in 1644 by Henry Barton and his wife, William Parker, John Odinsell, William Greenhill, and John Pococke, in the presence of Henry Burton, vicar at St Matthew Friday Street.

Wikipedia: Stepney Meeting House (EN)

1415 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 4: Altab Ali Park

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Altab Ali Park is a small park on the Whitechapel Road, in Whitechapel, London. Formerly known as St Mary's Park, it is the site of the old 14th-century, once whitewashed church, St Mary Matfelon, from which Whitechapel gets its name.

Wikipedia: Altab Ali Park (EN)

176 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Whitechapel Gallery

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The Whitechapel Gallery is a public art gallery in Whitechapel on the north side of Whitechapel High Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The original building, designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, opened in 1901 as one of the first publicly funded galleries for temporary exhibitions in London. The building is a notable example of the British Modern Style. In 2009 the gallery approximately doubled in size by incorporating the adjacent former Passmore Edwards library building. It exhibits the work of contemporary artists and organizes retrospective exhibitions and other art shows.

Wikipedia: Whitechapel Gallery (EN), Website

1029 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 6: Heron Tower

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Salesforce Tower, 110 Bishopsgate is a commercial skyscraper in London. It stands 230 metres (755 ft) tall including its 28-metre (92 ft) mast making it the second tallest building in the City of London financial district and the fifth tallest in Greater London and the United Kingdom, after the Shard in Southwark and One Canada Square at Canary Wharf. 110 Bishopsgate is located on Bishopsgate and is bordered by Camomile Street, Outwich Street and Houndsditch.

Wikipedia: Heron Tower (EN)

1288 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 7: St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate

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St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate is a Church of England church in the Bishopsgate Without area of the City of London, and also, by virtue of lying outside the city's eastern walls, part of London's East End.

Wikipedia: St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate (EN), Heritage Website

450 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: Gibson Hall

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The Gibson Hall is a Grade I listed building at 13 Bishopsgate in the City of London. Previously known as National Westminster Hall, the building is named after its architect, John Gibson.

Wikipedia: Gibson Hall, London (EN), Heritage Website

623 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 9: Lloyd's of London

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The Lloyd's building is the home of the insurance institution Lloyd's of London. It is located on the former site of East India House in Lime Street, in London's main financial district, the City of London. The building is a leading example of radical Bowellism architecture in which the services for the building, such as ducts and lifts, are located on the exterior to maximise space in the interior.

Wikipedia: Lloyd's building (EN), Heritage Website

394 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 10: The Baltic Exchange

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The Baltic Exchange Unknown / Fair use

The Baltic Exchange was an important listed building and historic landmark at 24–28 St Mary Axe in the City of London, occupied by the Baltic Exchange, a market for shipping, marine insurance, and information on maritime transportation. The building was known to architectural historians for its cathedral-like trading hall and the Baltic Exchange Memorial Glass, a stained glass war memorial.

Wikipedia: Baltic Exchange (building) (EN), Heritage Website

241 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: St Katharine Cree

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The Guild Church of St Katharine Cree is an Anglican church in the Aldgate ward of the City of London, on the north side of Leadenhall Street near Leadenhall Market. It was founded in 1280. The present building dates from 1628 to 1630. Formerly a parish church, it is now a guild church.

Wikipedia: St Katharine Cree (EN), Website, Heritage Website

173 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Holy Trinity Priory

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Holy Trinity Priory

The Holy Trinity Priory, also known as Christchurch Aldgate, was a priory of Austin canons founded around 1108 by the English queen Matilda of Scotland near Aldgate in London.

Wikipedia: Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate (EN)

545 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 13: Trajan

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The statue of Trajan is an outdoor twentieth-century bronze sculpture depicting the Roman Emperor Trajan, located in front of a section of the London Wall built by Romans, at Tower Hill in London, United Kingdom.

Wikipedia: Statue of Trajan, Tower Hill (EN), Photo

617 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 14: White Tower

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The White Tower is a central tower, the old keep, at the Tower of London in England. It was built by William the Conqueror during the early 1080s, and subsequently extended. The White Tower was the castle's strongest point militarily, provided accommodation for the king and his representatives, and housed a chapel. Henry III ordered the tower whitewashed in 1240. Today the Tower of London is a museum and visitor attraction. The White Tower now houses the Royal Armouries collections.

Wikipedia: White Tower (Tower of London) (EN)

923 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 15: Berwin Leighton Paisner

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Berwin Leighton Paisner Berwin Leighton Paisner / PD

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) was an international law firm with 14 offices across 10 countries. It specialized in real estate, finance, litigation and corporate risk, private wealth and tax. In 2018, Bryan Cave merged with Berwin Leighton Painser to create Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, led by Lisa Mayhew and Therese Pritchard.

Wikipedia: Berwin Leighton Paisner (EN), Website, Heritage Website

315 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 16: St Clements Church

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St Clements ChurchSteve Cadman from London, U.K. / CC BY-SA 2.0

St Clement Eastcheap is a Church of England parish church in Candlewick Ward of the City of London. It is located on Clement's Lane, off King William Street and close to London Bridge and the River Thames.

Wikipedia: St Clement's, Eastcheap (EN), Heritage Website

257 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 17: QEB Hollis Whiteman

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QEB Hollis Whiteman

QEB Hollis Whiteman is a leading set of barristers' chambers specialising in criminal, financial, and regulatory law, located in the City of London. Established in the 1980s, it employs 70 barristers, including 21 King's Counsel, four Treasury Counsel and one Standing Counsel to the RCPO. The current Heads of Chambers are Selva Ramasamy KC and Adrian Darbishire KC and the Chief Clerk is Chris Emmings.

Wikipedia: QEB Hollis Whiteman (chambers) (EN), Website, Heritage Website

1246 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 18: Unilever

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Unilever House is a Grade II listed office building in the Neoclassical Art Deco style, located on New Bridge Street, Victoria Embankment in Blackfriars, London. The building has a tall, curving frontage which overlooks Blackfriars Bridge on the north bank of the River Thames.

Wikipedia: Unilever House (EN), Website, Heritage Website

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