Sherlock Holmes Old London - Very Small Group Walking Tour
Features
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
3 hours
- Professional guide
- Oyster Card or travel card is required for the London Underground to move between locations.
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
The game is afoot....
For all Sherlock Holmes fans! The perfect small group tour to take you deep into the Victorian world of the great Detective and his loyal friend Dr J Watson. This tour focuses on the original stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from the 1880's -...
- Duration from 3 Hours to 4 Hours
- Group Tour
- Max 12 people in the group
- 1
Northumberland Street
You are in safe hands for this tour. Your guide is a dedicated Sherlockian and even worked in The Sherlock Holmes Museum located in Baker Street. If you are new to Sherlock Holmes or a dedicated fanatic this tour is for you.
The Game is afoot...
Lets start in Northumberland...
- Duration 10 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
- 2
Victoria Embankment
Scotland Yard Detectives Lestrade and Hopkins were based here at this historic Police headquarters. Not that Sherlock had a particularly high view of them!
The building has recently been restored beautifully complete with huge gas lamps, squint your eyes and that modern black cab could easily become a Hansom Cab...
- Duration 10 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
- 3
Strand
"Come Watson, lets take nourishment at Simpsons in the Strand"
Words often spoken by Sherlock Holmes, as Simpsons was his favourite restaurant.
Originally a Chess Club, and Coffee House this fine establishment became a favourite of Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Winston Churchill. Still one of the finest traditional...
- Duration 10 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
- 4
Somerset House
Not exactly a Sherlock Holmes stop, but a fascinating place to walk through as a short cut to the station. The site of a Tudor Palace belonging to the Duke of Somerset, later rebuilt as a great civic building in 1775. Recently used as a filming location for 'Love Actually'
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- Duration 5 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
- 5
West Smithfield
London's oldest hospital and the place where Holmes and Watson first met after being introduced by 'Young Stamford' in a Study in Scarlet.
Watson runs in to this old colleague in the Criterion Bar who mentions an eccentric friend called Sherlock who is looking for someone to share the rent...
- Duration 20 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
- 6
Portland Place
The rather grand and ultra luxury Langham Hotel had only just opened, when in August 1889 two up and coming authors were invited to dine with an American publisher on a talent scouting mission. The two authors were Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle, and this meeting would launch both...
- Duration 5 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
- 7
Queen Anne Street
Dr Watson can't live the bachelor life forever,and eventually meets and marries Mary Morstan. Leaving 221b Baker Street he sets up home, and opens his own medical practice at 8 Queen Anne Street.
Standing outside this building, you can imagine Sherlock on the doorstep knocking the door with his cane,...
- Duration 5 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
- 8
Upper Wimpole Street
A must see pilgrimage spot for true Sherlockians. Inside this building Arthur Conan Doyle had his medical practice. He would walk here each morning, a journey of 20 minutes, no doubt taking inspiration from the characters and buildings he passed.
He would later joke - "Not a single patient darkened...
- Duration 10 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
- 9
Marylebone Road
Baker Street Station is the best preserved and one of the oldest Underground stations in the world. The London Underground is so old, Holmes and Watson traveled it a few times in the stories.
Just outside the station is the Sherlock Holmes Statue, commissioned by the Abbey National Building Society...
- Duration 5 Minutes•
- No Admission Ticket Required
- 10
The Sherlock Holmes Museum
The tour ends at the world famous 221b Baker Street where you can either shop for Sherlock souvenirs or enter the museum which is set out as Sherlock and Watson's home that they share with their landlady Mrs Hudson.
- Duration 40 Minutes•
- Admission Ticket Not Included
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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