Shakespeare and Dickens Tour

The London of Shakespeare and Dickens

Our audio guided Shakespeare & Dickens tour gives you the opportunity to see the area of the city known as Bankside as Shakespeare and Dickens saw it. First in the 16th Century with its, theatres, brothels and bear baiting pits, and then three centuries later as the young Charles Dickens would have known and featured in his works.

This Tour is brought to life with the accompaniment of period music and sound archive material specially designed to set the scene as your narrator escorts you through some of the most famous of London’s landmarks, and the history of events that took place in and around them.

Listen to a Sample of the Shakespeare and Dickens Tour:

Starting Point & Duration:

The tour starts at Monument Underground Station. Walking at a leisurely pace, please allow approximately one and a half hours for this Tour.

The walk takes in the following sights and more:

The Monument, The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garrett, White Hart Yard, The George Inn, Borough Fruit & Vegetable Market, Southwark Cathedral, The Clink Prison, The Anchor Inn, Site of original Globe Theatre, Site of Rose Theatre, Shakespeare Globe Centre, Globe Theatre Reconstruction, Old Bankside Power Station, Doggetts Coat & Badge, The Black Friar

View Tour Map below:

Purchase Online:

To purchase your copy of The Talking Tour Company’s Shakespeare & Dickens London Walking Tour, please select below:

MP3 Download £5.99
CD £6.99
Cassette £6.99