Not actually shown on maps as Fitzrovia until 1994 this area north of Oxford Street has a very different history and feel to its near neighbour Soho.

Hear about some of the more unusual residents here during the 1780s together with a scandal from the 1890s which led to a journalist being imprisoned. Find out why Crabtree Fields is a misnomer, walk down a street associated with legal writers and see a former churchyard connected to the founders of Methodism.

Many literary giants have frequented the pubs here. George Orwell used one as a model for the Proles’ Pub in 1984 and another became known as The Burglars’ Rest!

We will also see an old workhouse that may have inspired Dickens who lived close by and visit a chapel with an astonishing interior that was saved from the Middlesex Hospital.

The Fitrovia Chapel is open on certain days during the week and on selected Sundays including the day of our walk – 8th June.

This is a circular walk starting and finishing at The Fitzroy Tavern in Charlotte Street. The walk will start outside the pub but you might want to visit one of its bars beforehand.

Joanna leads regular walks and tours in and around the West End, Clerkenwell and Islington and further afield in Walthamstow and Chingford