📚 Three options available: Standard 3-hour tour · Extended 5-hour tour · Special Christmas Carol Tour with a drink in the pub where Dickens wrote the Pickwick Papers. Email us for details of the extended and Christmas Carol options.
The Streets That Made Dickens
From Marshalsea Prison to the Dickens House Museum — the novel behind every street
Charles Dickens didn’t invent his London — he observed it. He walked these streets obsessively, night and day, absorbing the poverty and grandeur, the characters and the cruelty, that would become some of the greatest novels in the English language. This private tour follows exactly those streets — from the south bank where his family’s imprisonment at Marshalsea shaped everything he would ever write, to the Bloomsbury streets where his own success brought him home.
Every stop has a double life — real history and Dickensian fiction intertwined. The building where Oliver Twist asked for more. The steps where Nancy met her fate. The pub where Fagin sent boys to pick pockets on execution days. The inn that Chaucer’s pilgrims also knew. The tour concludes outside the Dickens House Museum where you can visit the very desk where he wrote, in your own time.
The George Inn — the only galleried inn left in London, known to Dickens and to Chaucer’s pilgrims
Borough Market — pick a pocket or two, as Fagin would have it
The Old Curiosity Shop — always a highlight of the tour
Charles Dickens at work — the man who walked London’s streets to find his stories
Three Ways to Experience Dickens’ London
Standard · Extended · Christmas Carol — a tour for every Dickens fan
The Standard 3-hour tour covers the full sweep of Dickensian London — from Marshalsea to the Dickens House Museum, through Borough Market, Fleet Street and Lincoln’s Inn Fields. It is a complete and deeply satisfying journey through the world Dickens created from his walks through these very streets.
The Extended 5-hour tour goes considerably further — deeper into the Dickensian world and covering locations and connections that the standard tour can only touch on. And for something truly special, our Christmas Carol Tour follows the haunted streets of Scrooge’s London — featuring many of the same locations alongside the specific sites connected to the most beloved Christmas story ever written. Contact us for full details of both.
🎄 The Christmas Carol Tour also includes a drink in the pub where Dickens himself wrote the Pickwick Papers — one of the most atmospheric stops on any tour we offer. Email us for details.
Pricing — Standard 3 Hour Tour
Per Person — Guide Included
Entry fees not included. Child prices on request. Departure 10:00am. Email for 5-hour and Christmas Carol tour pricing.
Book by email or through Viator. No online calendar for this tour — email us for all options including the 5-hour and Christmas Carol tours.
Frequently Asked Questions for the Charles Dickens Walking Tour
Departure Time:10 am
City Location: London
Duration of Tour: 3 hours (we also do a 5 hour Charles Dickens Walking Tour and a shorter 2 hour tour with a drink where Charles wrote the Pickwick Papers… email for details of the last 2)
How to book the Charles Dickens Walking Tour
To make a booking or find out more, send us an email above.
Alternatively you can book the Charles Dickens Walking Tour by using the automated booking process with Viator below.
The Charles Dickens Museum — the tour concludes here, where you can visit the very desk at which he wrote, in your own time.
