London Marylebone and Baker Street Walking Tour
London, United Kingdom
Trip Type: Walking Tours
Duration: 2 hours
A walk through Baker Street, which has become a shrine to the world's greatest detective. Your guide will talk about Sherlock Holmes's fascinating creator, and how he had a dramatic tendency to solve real life crimes. Then a walk through the medieval village of Marylebone, which has London's highest concentration of genteel Georgian housing. See John Nash's classically designed villas and terraces around Regent's Park, The Royal Academy of Music, and the church where the world's best known publishers started in its basement.
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A walk through Baker Street, which has become a shrine to the world's greatest detective. Your guide will talk about Sherlock Holmes's fascinating creator, and how he had a dramatic tendency to solve real life crimes. Then a walk through the medieval village of Marylebone, which has London's highest concentration of genteel Georgian housing. See John Nash's classically designed villas and terraces around Regent's Park, The Royal Academy of Music, and the church where the world's best known publishers started in its basement.Meet your guide outside Baker Street tube station (by the Sherlock Holmes statue) to start your 2-hour walking tour. Along the tour you will see: Baker Street and the Sherlock Holmes museum, the Beatles shop, the Royal Academy of Music, John Nash's classically designed villas and terraces around Regent's Park and the medical offices of Sherlock's author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
You will make your way through the famous Harley Street and Wimpole street, taking in the genteel Georgian architecture and hearing the stories about its past inhabitants, including the forbidden love affair and marriage of two of Britain's greatest poets, and the rooms where the real events of the film, The King's Speech, took place. This is also the area where author Charles Dickens lived and wrote many of his principle works.
You will make your way through the famous Harley Street and Wimpole street, taking in the genteel Georgian architecture and hearing the stories about its past inhabitants, including the forbidden love affair and marriage of two of Britain's greatest poets, and the rooms where the real events of the film, The King's Speech, took place. This is also the area where author Charles Dickens lived and wrote many of his principle works.
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