Walking Tour around Spitalfields in the East End of London

Day by day

1. 01

   Stop 1

   Nicholas Hawksmoor's masterpiece of English Baroque

2. 02

   Stop 2

   We meet people whose lives were bound up with with this institution to minster to the needs of Jewish immigrants who came from East Europe, the area now known as the Ukraine

3. 03

   Stop 3

   We learn the story of this ancient market

4. 04

   Stop 4

   We reveal the purpose of this astonishing medieval survival

5. 05

   Stop 5

   We visit the site of the Priory of St Mary Spital

6. 06

   Stop 6

   We tell the story of the brewery through the lives of two women who worked there

7. 07

   Stop 7

   We tell the story of this famous thoroughfare and the ongoing controversy over its future

8. 08

   Stop 8

   We reveal the history of this building which is emblematic of the history of Spitalfields - a Huguenot Chapel that became a Synagogue that became a Mosque

9. 09

   Stop 9

   We tell the story behind these fine eighteenth century houses

10. 10

    Stop 10

    We visit the herb garden of the 17th century herbalist, Nicholas Culpeper

11. 11

    Stop 11

    We put our feet up in a 18th century drawing room, overlooking Christ Church Spitalfields, at the end of our tour and enjoy tea and cakes baked to a recipe of 1720

Getting there

About London

London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of 9.14 million people in 2025. Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 15.4 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a 50-mile (80 km) tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the site of the national government and parliament for centuries. London grew rapidly in the 19th century, becoming the world's largest city at the time. Since the 19th century the name "London" has referred to the metropolis around the City of London, historically split among the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent and Hertfordshire. Since 1965 it has largely comprised the administrative area of Greater London, governed by 33 local authorities and the Greater London Authority.

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