Welcome to Atlantis Tour Guides (the audio tour division of Tours by Foot). We are excited you chose to take our City of London Self Guided Audio Tour.
INSTRUCTIONS:
This is a self guided tour that you can take at any time. It is not date specific and you can listen to it as many times as you'd like.
Find the audio stops listed below. You can listen out of order if you chose but the verbal instructions to get between stops will follow our suggested map route.
Each stop has a Google Map link to ensure you can easily fine the next stop, but you can also use this embeddable Google Map.
You can also use the .pdf file of the written tour script with clickable links for ease of download.
You can use this map by clicking on the square in the upper right corner. It will then open your Google Maps app (you must have this app for the map to work) with the stops shown. You cannot download the self guided tour map, but if you'd like to use this map without data, be sure to leave this page open!
Jump to an option to use this tour data free...
TOUR DETAILS
- Time: About 2 Hours
- Start: Temple Underground Station (or, if you are not taking the tube, simply start at St. Clement Danes Church)
- End: Tower Hill
Welcome to the “Square Mile!” This tour will take you through the oldest streets in London – from the Roman settlement 2,000 years ago – to the newest (and tallest!) buildings in all of Europe. Starting with a stroll along the ancient underground river Fleet, with a mid-point stop at Christopher Wren’s masterpiece, St. Paul’s, and a grand finale at Her Majesty’s Fortress, The Tower of London, this tour manages to squeeze two millennium worth of time into one easy-to-handle 2 and a half hour jam-packed excursion!
BEFORE YOU BEGIN...
We suggest you save this page to your home screen, making it easy for you to return to this page between stops. You can do this via the Add To Homescreen Button on your device.
STOPS:
Click on the name to hear the audio for each stop. The audio file will open in a new tab. You can also find a Google Map link to assist if needed in getting to the stop.
- Introduction (Temple Station, WC2R 2PH - map)
- STOP 1: St. Clement Danes Church (The Strand, WC2R 1DH - map)
- STOP 2: Samuel Johnson Statue (211 Strand, WC2R 1AP - map)
- STOP 3: The Royal Courts of Justice (The Strand, WC2A 2LL - map)
- STOP 4: Temple Bar (City of London, EC4A 2LT - map)
- STOP 5: Prince Henry's Room (17 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1AA - map)
- STOP 6: Temple Church (Temple, EC4Y 7BB - map)
- STOP 7: Samuel Johnson's House and Hodge the Cat (2 Gough Square, EC4A 3DE - map)
- STOP 8: Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese (145 Fleet Street, EC4A 2BP - map)
- STOP 9: St. Bride's Church (Fleet Street, EC4Y 8AU - map)
- STOP 10: St. Paul's Cathedral - Part 1 (Statue of Queen Anne, St. Paul's Churchyard, EC4M 8AY - map)
- STOP 11: St. Pau's Cathedral - Part 2 (St. Paul's Churchyard, EC4M 8AD - map)
- STOP 12: St. Mary-le-Bow (Statue of Captain John Smith, EC4M 9DQ - map)
- STOP 13: The Financial Centre (1 Cornhill, EC3V 3LN - map)
- STOP 14: Sky Garden and the Walkie Talkie Building (Lombard Street, C3V 9AY - map)
- STOP 15: The Monument (Fish Street Hill, EC3R 8AH - map)
- STOP 16: London Bridge (Old Waterman's Walk, EC3R 6HE - map)
- Walk and Play: The Shard, Hay's Galleria, HMS Belfast and Old Billingsgate (Grant's Quay Wharf, EC3R 8HL - map)
- STOP 17: Tower Bridge - (1 Old Billingsgate Walk, EC3R 6DX- map)
- STOP 18: The Tower of London - (Tower Place West, 5 Great Tower Street, EC3R 5BT - map)
- STOP 19: The Roman Wall (Tower Hill, EC3N 4DJ - map)
- Conclusion (Tower Hill Station, EC3N 4DJ - map)
Data Free Option
If you would like to listen to this data free, we suggest you download the .mp4 file below. This is an audio file that includes the entire tour in one go. You can download it depending on your device settings and it should appear in your Files.
The audio is one long file, but you will be given instructions to pause between stops.
Click here to open the AUDIO FILE OF ENTIRE TOUR.
Time Stamps for individual stops:
00:00 - Introduction
01:13 - St. Clement Danes Church
03:05 - Samuel Johnson Statue
03:54 - The Royal Courts of Justice
06:08 - Temple Bar
08:47 - Prince Henry's Room
10:59 - Temple Church
13:01 - Samuel Johnson's House and Hodge the Cat
14:47 - Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
16:27 - St. Bride's Church
17:57 - St. Paul's Cathedral Part 1
20:23 - St. Paul's Cathedral Part 2
23:01 - St. Mary-le-Bow
25:22 - The Bank of England/Royal Exchange/Mansion House
30:31 - Sky Garden and The Walkie Talkie Building
33:12 - The Monument to the Great Fire of London
36:48 - London Bridge
38:11 - Walk and Play: The Shard, Hay's Galleria, HMS Belfast and Old Billingsgate
41:39 - Tower Bridge
44:12 - The Tower of London
47:06 - Roman Wall
48:20 Conclusion
