Guided Tours
There are a number of recommended tour guide companies that can take you round the area of Southwark, giving you historical facts and quirky stories about the area, making sure you discover all those hidden gems.
London Walks
Book a London Walks guide for your trip to Bankside and ask for one of the following walks to discover the quirky facts about Southwark:
- Along The Thames Pub Walk
- Shakespeare’s London Walk
- Darkest Victorian London
- "Somewhere Else” London
- The Undiscovered London Pub Walk
London Walks guides include authors, journalists, actors and the crème de la crème of professionally qualified Blue Badge and City of London guides. A London Walks leaflet can always be picked up at the Founders Arms pub. The first and best of the walking tour companies” (Fodor’s Great Britain).
Tel: 020 7624 3978
Email: London@walks.com
Website: www.walks.com
Southwark Cathedral Guides
As well as providing guided tours of the Cathedral, the guides offer escorted Walks of Historic Bankside at a cost £3 per person.
Tel: 020 7367 6734
Email: david.payne@southwarkanglican.org
Individual guides can also be found through the following organisations:
Southwark Tour Guides Association
Tel: 020 8333 5484
Website: www.southwark-guides.co.uk
Association of Professional Tourist Guides
50 Southwark Street, London, SE1 1UN, Tel: 020 7717 4064
Website: www.aptg.org.uk
The Guild of Registered Tourist Guides
52 Borough High Street, London, SE1 1XT, Tel: 020 7403 1115
Website: www.blue-badge-guides.com
