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Footprints of London is a London guided tours company with a difference; we're owned by our guides, all our guides are qualified and accredited and all our guided walks are researched and written by the guides leading them.

Guided tours by and for those who love London delivered with care, professionalism, insight and enthusiasm, that's the Footprints of London difference.

Literary Footprints Festival 2026

Our Literary Footprints Festival is back!

throughout the month of March we will be running Literary Footprints 2026 our unique, annual London-centric literary festival.

Like a walking book club, it will take out onto the streets of London on guided walking and virtual tours researched, written and led by our experienced, professional guides.

You will get to see to where the novels and poems are set, where the authors’ inspiration was born and the avenues and alleyways, buildings and gardens their characters inhabit – places you might normally visit only in your imagination.

The festival features a wide range of over 40 walking and virtual guided tours throughout March, you can find the full schedule here.

We look forward to seeing you on a tour!

Our immediately upcoming tours are listed below, for the full schedule please visit our tours page.

21Jun

14:00 - 16:00

Covent Garden station - James Street, London, WC2E 9JT

Walking Tour – Roaring Twenties Through Writers’ Eyes

Jazz, cocktails, fast cars and the Bright Young Things through the eyes of Waugh, Coward, Christie,...

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22Jun

13:00 - 15:30

Outside Exit 3 Leicester Square Station - Charing Cross Rd east side Corner Grea...

Walking Tour – From Gin Lane to the Fatal Tree: The Life of Jack Sheppard

Thief and escape-artist Jack Sheppard sparred with thief-taker Jonathan Wild in streets thronged wit...

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22Jun

14:00 - 15:30

Broad Sanctuary, outside the Westminster Abbey Bookshop - Broad Sanctuary Westmi...

Behind Westminster Abbey

The best views and stories of historic Westminster away from the crowdsRight in the heart of histori...

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23Jun

14:00 - 16:00

Meet outside Blackfriars Tube station on the north bank - Blackfriars Road, Lond...

Walking Tour – Trains, Drains and Remains

Discover what largely lies under-foot in the City including drains, sewage pipes, water conduits, bu...

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24Jun

14:30 - 16:30

Outside entrance gates to Dulwich Old College by the George Webster drinking fou...

Walking Tour – London’s Last Toll Road and Other Dulwich Stories

A walk from Dulwich Village to South Dulwich passed grand college buildings and villas, historic cot...

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24Jun

20:00 - 21:00

Online Event

Virtual Tour – Stonehenge and other Prehistoric Mysteries

Stonehenge is the world's most famous structure from the Stone Age, but it is not the only prehistor...

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