Private Bloomsbury and Literary London Walking Tour

Start your walk through Bloomsbury outside the British Museum with its collection of over 8 million items. Hear about some of the highlights of the collection. You can extend your tour and be taken on a guided tour of the highlights of the British Museum if you wish.

Walk through beautiful Russell Square and see the stylish cafe-au-lait Kimpton Fitzroy Hotel, the 19c town houses and the house where the writer T S Elliot worked.

Walk past the many buildings of University College, London and see the 'Peace Square' with its poignant statues and trees. See where Virginia Woolf and Charles Dickens lived.

You continue your walk to another pretty garden square, Gordon Square and see where Virginia Woolf and John Maynard Keynes lived.

Walk through the modern Brunswick Shopping Centre to Brunswick Square with its vast gardens, Coram's Fields (where adults can only go accompanied by children!). Hear about the Foundling Hospital established for orphaned babies and children in 18th century.

You take a fascinating walk down one of London's quaint streets which used to be a water conduit and down streets filled with typical Georgian (18c) town houses. Charles Dickens used to live in one of these houses. His former home is now a museum.

You weave through quaint streets with Georgian houses and past Grays Inn (one of London's 4 Inns of Court, where barristers are trained) to Red Lion Square, where some of the Pre-Raphaelite artists used to live. You may hear one or two ghost stories!