Footprints of London

From WWII Brixton is a centre for black Britons as well as South London fairies, squatters, poets, Latin American migrant entrepreneurs. The neighbourhood radiates brilliant industrial solutions of Victorian engineers, but who built it? This walk puts hard-working navvies at the centre of the story and tells how the area developed in the face of…

Renaissance scholar John Dee's library was renowned. Other Tudor luminaries figure in Mortlake's riverine history which ends in a Boat Race Mortlake manor, described in the Domesday Book, also included what we know as Putney, Barnes, Roehampton and Wimbledon. The manor house, which Thomas Cromwell acquired in 1536, was situated conveniently on the Thames between…

The Stour Estuary was one Ground Zero for cruel 17th-century witch-crazes. The walk focuses on which women were targeted, why and how. On t On this two-guide walk along the Stour Estuary Laura tells the story of women accused of witchcraft during a craze that played out in the three villages of Lawford, Manningtree and…

Richmond is Sir David Attenborough's favourite place on the planet, and the stretch of the river to Twickenham is the very best part. Your fantasy of classic English countryside come true in the city. This stretch of the River Thames will put you in mind of boating holidays with Mole and Ratty, unless your first…

Once shipbuilding centre for Colchester, now sailing-cum-commuter village, with bohemian and gay histories, a whale and The Essex Serpent. Wivenhoe on the River Colne once functioned as a centre for shipbuilding and commercial fishing for the port of Colchester — especially of oysters and scallops. Smuggling was another important activity, set in the folklore of…