🏨 Borough Market - Inns and alleys 700 years of literature explored Activity

Borough Market - Inns and alleys 700 years of literature explored

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Duration: 1 hours

Departs: London, London

Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted

Free cancellation

Up to 24 hours in advance.

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Overview

You will be taken by a qualified tour guide and London expert through the historic streets of Borough. We will find the hidden gems that not even the locals know.

Guests will explore the inns and alleyways that Chaucer, Shakespeare and Dickens walked and see the sites that have been here since medieval times.

We will visit where Dicken's father was imprisoned for debit. We will see where Chaucer's pilgrims set off on their Canterbury Tales 600 over years ago. Even visit the pub that Shakespeare may well have drank in!

From England's first English bible to Henry V's Falstaff Borough has played a central role in England's history.

This tour is a must for those who want to understand where English literature
has its roots.

I am a fully qualified guide, giving fun, friendly and informative tours.

Tours are small, meeting covid safety guidelines and are a great way to reintroduce you and your friends back to London.

What's Included

Details of Borough attractions

Traveler Information

CHILD: Age: 5 - 14

Additional Info

All tours limited to 5 or less people - ideally single group booking tours. Tours 100% outdoors and socially distanced. Tours through uncrowded areas.
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Guides required to regularly wash hands
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Public transportation options are available nearby
Social distancing enforced throughout experience
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible

All tours limited to 5 or less people - ideally single group booking tours. Tours 100% outdoors and socially distanced. Tours through uncrowded areas.
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Guides required to regularly wash hands
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Public transportation options are available nearby
Social distancing enforced throughout experience
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

What To Expect

Borough Market

We will talk about the history of the market in Borough. We will hear about the area's role in shaping England's earliest Bibles.

• Admission Ticket Free

A classic stage coaching inn, with links to Shakespeare and Dickens. We will visit the site of the Tabard Inn, where Canterbury Tales is set, written over 600 years ago.
We will also learn more about the poet Keats and the philosopher Wittgenstein and their time at Guys Hospital.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

St George the Martyr

With a poet laureate in its graveyard and Little Doritt's fire place this church is rich in history. We will visit the Marshalsea Prison, that played a central role in shaping the young Charles Dickens.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Crossbones Graveyard & Garden of Remembrance

This medieval paupers graveyard is rich in mystery and history. With over 15,000 bodies and a history back to medieval times it is a site not to be missed.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Reviews

Secret Southwark

O9591DUcourtneyp, 16-09-2022

Really great walking tour of Borough market area yesterday. Stephen has lots of local knowledge which makes the tour both very interesting but also fun.

Entertaining tour guide who brings history to life

ali5143, 09-03-2020

Stephen is an excellent - and funny - guide and knows so much about London's history and the history of Southwark in particular. I really enjoyed the stories he told but most of all I enjoyed being able to see, in my mind's eye, what Borough must have looked like hundreds of years ago because he painted such a vivid picture of it.

Excellent Tour

samswift, 06-03-2020

"WHAT THE DICKENS???" I exclaimed loudly when I heard within thirty seconds of the tour beginning that my humble local post office, the hitherto bane of my life due to an unfortunate incident with a recorded delivery to Belfast, had considerably more esteemed history that I shan't reveal to keep a cloud of mystique.

An excellent tour from an excellent guide around a neglected bit of London's literary history. Macabre and mirthful in equal measures, I thoroughly recommend this enlightening and fascinating glimpse into some of the inspirations of the English canon. Stephen was an excellent cicerone throughout; encyclopaedic and entertaining to the last.

Engrossing literary experience

douglasolley, 05-03-2020

Excellent tour down streets less traveled around London Bridge. Very interesting literary facts and description of how the area used to operate. Fantastic talk on multiple literary icons all concentrated

Insightful tour of hidden literary gems

gallagher_tim, 05-03-2020

Insightful tour of various hidden literary gems in the Borough area. Takes in Chaucer, Shakespeare and Dickens in the space of just a few neighbouring streets - well worth going along for anyone with an interest in the history of London or English literature. You'll discover some great historic pubs along the way as well.

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