Victoria Lunchtime Walking Tours with City of Westminster Guides

A series of 4 lunchtime walking tours with City of Westminster Guides exploring the area around Westminster Cathedral in four quadrants: south-east, south-west, north-east and north-west.

All walks start and finish in the piazza in front of Westminster Cathedral on Victoria Street and are around 1 mile in length.

Duration is about 40 - 45 minutes. Cost: £7 per person (£5 for City of Westminster Council staff and those with the CitySave card). Payable on the day. Cash only.

There are four different walks: one on each consecutive Tuesday lunchtime in June:

Hidden River, Lost Canal - Tuesday 2nd June - 1.10pm to 1.50pm

This walk goes south west from the cathedral and includes the story of a familiar structure which was built on a filled-in canal basin, plus a nearby hidden river, a garden square and the tale of what was previously on the site of Westminster Cathedral.

Home & Colonial - Tuesday 9th June - 1.10pm to 1.50pm

This walk goes south east from the cathedral and includes the story of Vincent Square, a housing estate by an architect better known for country houses and how a co-operative venture for supplying army and navy officers led to the creation of a department store.

Kings, Soldiers and Beer - Tuesday 16th June - 1.10pm to 1.50pm

This walk goes north west from the cathedral and includes how the old Stag Brewery site has been redeveloped not once but twice in the last 60 years. We see one of the newest theatres in London and the “newest” Royal Palace with the nearby barracks and stables.

Reach for the Stars - Tuesday 23rd June - 1.10pm to 1.50pm

This walk goes north east from the cathedral and includes an old churchyard, the location of a Victorian building which influenced the skyline of London for more than half a century plus the venue for many celebrity weddings, which also has suffragette and Second World War connections.

AND a one-off transport-themed 'special' for the 5th Tuesday in June

Trains and boats and planes - and a few buses too - Tuesday 30th June - 1.10pm to 2.10pm

(Please note this walk is an hour long)

This walk explores Victoria as a transport hub, how it developed and how the way it developed influenced what we see today. We get to look at some 100 year old maps of the Brighton line which many people walk past without a glance and we find out why all Green Line buses have route numbers in the 700s.