In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens - the free Notting Hill Guided Walk

Sun Apr 19 2026 at 11:00 am to 01:00 pm UTC+01:00

Holland Park tube station - walk starts first left in Lansdowne Rd | London

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In the Footsteps of Charles Dickens -  the free Notting Hill Guided Walk
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A free* guided walk around Victorian London’s poorest district now its most expensive.*Tips allowed.
About this Event

In the footsteps of Charles Dickens
"In a neighbourhood of one of the most beautiful parts of the metropolis studded thickly with elegant villas and mansions lies a plague spot scarcely equalled for its insalubrity by any other in London."

(Charles Dickens)

Your guide is a local historian.He presented the 2024 Norland Square Conservation Society annual lecture on the ‘Piggeries and Potteries’

The Walk includes:

  • The Lansdowne Rd artists' studios
  • The UK's first independent recording studio
  • The Notting Hill 'test' work house
  • The UK's first Victorian Workmen’s Hall
  • The Notting Hill race course built to rival Epsom
  • St Francis Church - French neo gothic church
  • Suffragette leader Emily Pankhurst's house
  • Rachmanism-forced evictions of the most vulnerable
  • Gentrification and social segregation

An opportunity to explore Notting Hill and see it in a whole new light.


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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Holland Park tube station - walk starts first left in Lansdowne Rd, Holland Park Station, London, United Kingdom

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