Official Guides to the City of Westminster
Explore the famous, infamous and surprising with us… Our members are qualified tour guides, wear the association badge shown here, and are dedicated to providing quality tours of the City of Westminster
Some upcoming walks are shown – for the full range of available walks, please visit the Walks & Talks page.
Florence Nightingale’s London
Wed 16 Apr 25 11:00
£16.00
What does a famous luxury grocery shop have to do with the Crimean War? Where did Nightingale write her famous Notes on Nursing? Find out these answers and much more when you walk in the footsteps of …
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Florence Nightingale’s London
Wed 16 Apr 25 11:00
£16.00
What does a famous luxury grocery shop have to do with the Crimean War? Where did Nightingale write her famous Notes on Nursing? Find out these answers and much more when you walk in the footsteps of …
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Walking in Turner’s Footsteps!
Tue 6 May 25 10:45
£15
Be transported back into the racy world of Covent Garden in the late 18th Century, as we trace the humble beginnings of J.M.W. Turner, from precocious son of a Barber and wigmaker, to rising star of t …
Return of the King
Tue 13 May 25 18:00
£15.00; £10.00
The restoration: a very merry monarch with his glamorous mistresses, flamboyant court and strange “touching for the king’s evil” ceremonies. This is also a time of a new power settlement, the flourish …
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A Great Political Maze: Mayfair in the Eighteenth Century
Tue 20 May 25 18:00
£15.00, £10.00
Mayfair was built up through the eighteenth century. This was a time when democratic systems were evolving albeit marked by corruption and nepotism and impacted by wars, trade and the development of e …
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London’s Ragged and Reformers
Tue 17 Jun 25 18:00
£15.00; £10.00
London in the nineteenth century became the largest city in the world and the centre of the greatest empire in history. However, not everyone shared the glory! Richard’s walk through Marylebone uncove …
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The London Walking Festival 2025
The Westminster Guides are proud to support London Walking Festival 2025. Go Jauntly, London National Park City and Footways are working together to create a month-long festival in …
The King’s Fabulous Beasties and Other Animals
The crowded streets around Parliament Square transport us to a magical land of both mythical and real animals…if we happen to look up and truly see the buildings before us. But why are they there? …
The Spy Who Saved The World
A clandestine meeting at the Mount Royal Hotel The Thistle Hotel Marble Arch on Oxford Street is a fine example of 1930s Modernist architecture. In 1961, however, it was called the Mount Royal H …