19 February 2017

An historical walking route through the heart of London

On Saturday 18 February 2017, having parked the car beside Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on the south bank of the River Thames, I set off on a ten mile round-trip through central London.

The Globe Theatre was originally built in 1599, although the present building dates from 1997.

I crossed the River Thames on the London Millennium Footbridge, first opened in 2000, and approached St Paul's Cathedral. Sitting atop Ludgate Hill, the present cathedral, designed by Christopher Wren, and consecrated in 1697, replaced a former church dating from AD 604 which burned down in the Great Fire of 1666.



Here is a map of the route: