Smithfield Walk

Murders, monasteries and martyrs: a walk through Smithfield

Hear the violent history of the ‘smooth field’ –  including executions and a plague pit, plus body snatchers and notorious trials; Hogarth, Sir Thomas More, Wat Tyler and William Wallace all came here; see London’s oldest hospital and the UK’s oldest Roman Catholic church.

Every Sunday at 11am, meet outside Barbican Station