London Guided Walks
These free London walking tours can be paused at any time, so you can return to the route whenyou’re ready. TrailTale gives you complete freedom. Each walk has roughly 20 points of interest,and is packed with fun facts, photos, maps, and images. An audio guide accompanies each pointof interest, allowing you to listen while exploring.The starting and finishing points of each city walk are within easy reach of London’s centralpublic transportation, allowing you to continue your day’s plan with ease.The content of the self guided walks was developed using local experts, referencing manyhistorical books, and testimonies. Trail Tale is suitable for the whole family, with bonus stopsand trivia at famous filming locations from Harry Potter to Bridget Jones along the way.
Why TrailTale?
- The London self guided walks are completely free
- All the guided walks are available offline, no need to pay roaming charges
- The city walks are developed by London experts
- Easy to pause at any time
- Precise turn by turn walking directions, and easy to recognise Landmarks
- Features locations for the whole family
Our guided London walks focus on the following themes:
- Acting and Clubbing St. James’s London (ACSJL) – 22 sights: Explore the most aristocratic partof London, palaces, art galleries, members clubs around St. James park.
- Bridges to London City (BtLC) – 28 sights: Explore South of the river from London Bridge toBermondsey. Learn about Tower Bridge while you walk along the Thames.
- Banks to Liverpool London City B2LLC) – 11 sights: Explore the hidden area of the Citytucked away behind the Bank of England.
- East Meets London City (EMLC) – 25 sights Follow the amazing story of immigration toLondon.
- Governing London (GL) – 23 sights: Check out what is hidden behind the most famouspart of London, Westminster, say hello to Boudicca and follow the footsteps of HarryPotter.
- Inns of London (IoL) – 25 sights: The beautiful law quarters embroidered with Inns.Walk the back alleys that take you centuries into the past, through gardens and a curiousshop.
- London City of Bars and Barts (LBB) – 17 sights: Explore the medieval part of LondonCity to see the Old Bailey, St. Bartholomew’s church and hospital, the Barbican, Temple Bar
- you may even be able to spot a witch!
- London of Law and News (LLN) – 24 sights: Visit the backyards of the law quarters, oldinns, the newspaper giants, Temple Church and transport yourself onto the set of the DaVinci Code.
- Towers of London City (ToL) – 28 sights: From the Tower of London to the new CityTowers, visit a Roman wall, pagan churches, old market places, the Great Fire
- a bit ofHarry Potter meets Jack the Ripper.
- Livery London City (LLC)
- 20 locations: Stroll through seldomvisited part of the City of London, with long heritage, Friars, Shakespeare, and a Mayor andhis cat;
- Stranding London (SL)
- 20 locations: The old palaces quarterwhich is now part of the theatre world of the WestEnd. Featuring: The Savoy, CleopatraNeedle, Covent Garden and one smelly street lamp;
- Sweat Thamsing London (STL) (NEW)
- 20 locations: London’s life-linethrough the centuries. From the Tower of London to Westminster Palace. Featuring an oldcastle, ghost warship, and a missing bridge.
- Highs of Hampstead (HoH)
- 21 locations: London's most famous village still retaining its tranquil atmosphere. See a graveyard, a house turned ship, a chimney, an iron water well and an iron ball with deep spiritual meaning
- Charming Chelsea (CC)
- (*Coming soon)
- Inner London's village muse for poems and authors. See an old hospital, hanging river, Cheyne Walk and a pump
Category : Travel & Local
Reviews (28)
Really like this app, it provides simple, well paced but interesting walks. The stuff it shows you are away from the more obvious tourist parts which I love. The app has a few hiccups here and there but they're easy to get over. It would be great to have an option for creating personal walk, an extension to the existing "Explore" feature, but allowing you to select a list of points and "follow" it similar to the official walks. Keep up the great work!!
Lovely app. I just read in the local board about the new route in Sevenoaks and it is very nice. I lived here for a while and it's nice to learn new things about my town
We've been using the app for lockdown walks round London. We've both lived here for many years and love exploring the city. We love Trail Tales, the walks are interesting and always take us to nooks and crannies we've never been before. We find the audio narrator charming, but her unfamiliarity with what she is reading and misprounciations can be a distraction. Might be worth rerecording with a more confident voiceover. Netherless we had a lovely time doing the Towers tour today. :)
We live in London and have been enjoying London on a much deeper level thanks to this app. It has made our lockdown weekend's bearable again. The first walk we did made me feel free and out of our usual routine. I felt like I had been reborn again! It's been hard not being able to go on holiday. With these tours, it almost feels like we're on holiday again. Thank you trail tale thank you x
This is a very awesome application for those living in or just visiting London. It serves as an amazing guide to historical and fascinating places. The app is also a good place to learn more about London's tourist attractions and history. It's definitely a 5 stars for me!!
The idea is good, but the app needs more work. There are plenty of things in Central London, but not much as you move out. There are a lot of things to see in the UK, especially in the countryside, but this app shows very little for now. Looking forward to future improvements.
Barely in Yorkshire! Absolutely astounded that there's no trails in York despite its vibrant history. Not a thing in Leeds or the beautiful countryside surrounding it? Seems to only be useful for visiting London or the Middlands. What a shame, really wanted to explore my local area...
Inaccessible. This app has such a small font and low contrast colour scheme, it is not usable unfortunately. Since it hasn't been updated since 2017 it is unlikely this will change.
My first usage has been to look at Colchester, which we are visiting shortly. It was an interesting and informative introduction to the town. If the rest of the entries are as interesting as this one, this app. will prove to be a useful download.
Very interesting for information. Kimbolton is nicely featured.
Fantastic app and great routes.
It's a fantastic app that's simple to use for those of whose who live in London as well as for us who are just visiting, and it serves as a great guide to interesting places.
Great app. Would have no idea what I'm walking by and takes you through great areas that most tourists might miss.
It looks that application is good and more informative about UK'S famous and historic places and the most attractive thing to me is that a lot of information in the form of text and also in audio available.
It told me there are no places of interest near me. I live in London!!! EDIT: Received a response from the developer telling me there are 750 interesting points in London. No kidding? Not apparent on the app though.
This is a very good tourist guide app that guides visitors to find historical and fascinating places and also it is user-friendly.
Very informative...As a Londoner, this app makes me feel like a tourist! .Fascinating historical stuff about the featured sights.. Impressive
This app says walks for GB towns, when really it should say English towns. There's heaps in England and only 2 for Scotland. Very very disappointing.
Great app. Nice routes around Huntingdon
Loved using the London routes. Very informative . Lived in London for years, but with this app wil I found many new places
App needs bugs fixing as cant use it. Keeps zooming to exactly where i live and won't let me look at any sites around me
Only one walk south of the river in London. Was this written by a taxi driver? If you are going to claim to cover London, you need to actually cover London. Edit :- I just downgraded from 2* to 1* due to the way fast-twonk euro, or whatever they are called, responded to my comment.
Great app for travelling in England . Used it for the Newcastle trail and found it very enjoyable and informative
An excellent and practical application for discovering places of interest in the city.
Easy to use.alot of option are present if you are an adventurous person. A definite recommend.
lovely places, and routes. the best was Exeter. so many things to see
What a lovely app. used the Canterbury trail, and it's full of information about it that I didn't know . Will do the Rochester route soon
Good idea, but needs more work. The map constantly zooms around when trying to find a route. You can't rewind commentary if you want to revisit something or realise you are looking at the wrong thing. If you accidentally come out of the walk you are doing there's no easy way back in. Plus some typos which can easily be corrected. Good idea, but I spent a lot of time trying to get back into the walk rather than enjoying the walk.