Wednesday Walks

NOVEMBER 2025 - JANUARY 2026

Join us on the first Wednesday of each month where we will introduce you to hidden corners of London and tell you some of London's best stories.

There is no need to book for these tours, just turn up and pay the guide £15 on the day.  It would, however, help the guide if you could email in advance if you expect to attend - also let us know if you change your mind!

WEDNESDAY, 5TH NOVEMBER, 2025 11:00 AM (£15)

From Shakespeare to Dan Brown – A Literary Walk Along the Strand

Your Guide: Elaine Wein (elaineguide1@gmail.com)

Starting at the Embankment we will hear about a wide range of authors from Charles Dickens to Dan Brown, with a little Oscar Wilde and Edgar Wallace thrown in! Hear about the Royal Society of Literature, the man that created the dictionary and walk through the Inns of Court and see one of most picturesque parts of London and see where Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night was premiered and where Tom Hanks filmed. The walk will finish at Temple Tube Station.

Meeting Point: Embankment Tube – Villiers Street Exit

WEDNESDAY, 10TH DECEMBER, 2025  -17.30   NO CHARGE

Christmas in Covent Garden

Your Guide: WLWU Team

Our walk will take us on a loop around and through the Covent Garden piazza - on the way we'll find a Mercer's Maid, a tree dedicated to Anne Frank, and a link to Oscar Wilde's fairy stories (we'll be asking at the beginning of the walk if anyone has worked out where that is!) The walk will, of course, have a link to Charles Dickens and A Christmas Carol...

Meeting Point: Covent Garden Tube Station

WEDNESDAY, 7TH JANUARY,  2026  11:00 AM (£15)

Dickens meets Wren

 Your Guide: Jenny Rossiter  (jenny.rossiter@gmail.com)

Wren never read a Dickens' novel but, the great writer would have been aware of the architect's iconic churches. In this post Christmas permutation round the City of London, we will explore alleyways, churches and public houses frequented by both men, albeit a hundred years apart.
The walk ends at Monument tube

Meeting Point:  Bank junction, on the steps of the Royal Exchange