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Free things to do
Practical London guides tagged Free things to do.
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Notting Hill's Colourful Houses: Which Streets Actually Have Them
The pastel streets are not on Portobello Road. A walking route through the eleven streets that actually have the colour, plus where the cherry blossom is in spring.
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Public Toilets in London: The Free Ones, the Paid Ones, and Where Else to Go
Which London toilets are free, which charge and how much, plus the museums, department stores and pubs that quietly let anyone use theirs — organised by area, built from the UK's own public toilet database.
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The Hampstead Heath to Primrose Hill Walk: Two Free Skyline Views
Hampstead village to Kenwood House, over Kite Hill's legally protected skyline view, through the hamlet in the middle of the Heath, and up again to Primrose Hill for a second one.
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Bonfire Night in London: Every Display, and Where to Watch for Free
Every London fireworks display for Bonfire Night 2026 with dates, prices and booking links, which famous ones no longer run, and the free viewpoints that are actually open after dark.
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Halloween in London: Events, Parties and Where to Get a Costume
What to do in London for Halloween 2026, from scare attractions and light trails to club nights and ghost tours — plus where you can still hire a proper costume.
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London Plaques: A Guide to How They Work
Who puts up London's commemorative plaques, what the different colours indicate, and the rules a person has to meet before one goes up.
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The Best Canal Walks in London: Little Venice to Limehouse
The Regent's Canal broken into walkable sections with real distances, where the towpath disappears, and the two tunnels you have to walk over rather than through.
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The Best Art Galleries in London: 19 Compared
The world's first purpose-built public gallery, 54,000 square feet behind a plain Bermondsey frontage, and a vault of silver under Chancery Lane.
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London's Best Markets: 17 Compared
A banana-ripening warehouse full of food traders, a flower market that only exists on Sundays, and a fish market trading before dawn — London's markets by what they sell.
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The Best Museums in London: 17 Compared, Most of Them Free
Beyond the British Museum — a house preserved by Act of Parliament, 68,000 zoological specimens in one room, and a train through the Post Office's own tunnels.
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London's Best Parks and Gardens: 17 Green Spaces
A Wren church left as a shell and filled with vines, dinosaurs built in 1854, and a tropical conservatory inside a brutalist fly tower — London's green spaces.
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The Best Views in London: 38 Viewpoints, Most of Them Free
The free City viewpoint that is higher than The Shard, a keyhole through a hedge in Richmond Park aimed at St Paul's ten miles away, and the protected panoramas with their own Act of Parliament.
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Hidden London: 19 Places Most Visitors Never Find
A wall recording ordinary people who died saving strangers, a tunnel of antique silver dealers, and a disused tram subway under Kingsway — London's hidden corners.
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London Blue Plaques: The Ones Worth Walking To
Mozart wrote his first symphony here aged eight, Engels hosted Marx for twenty years, and Hendrix and Handel lived in adjoining houses two centuries apart.
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London Filming Locations: 34 Places You Have Already Seen
Gringotts is a working embassy, Sherlock's flat is on the wrong street, and Slough House is a real door in Aldersgate — London's film and TV locations, mapped.
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London in the Rain: What to Do When the Weather Turns
Covered markets, free museums, a tropical conservatory inside a concrete tower and an underground vault of silver — London when the weather turns.
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London on a Budget: How to Do the City Cheaply
Every national museum is free, the highest viewing platform in London costs nothing, and you can watch a trial at the Old Bailey — how to do the city properly without the London prices.
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Banksy and London Street Art: What's Still There
Twelve Banksys still standing and the ones that are gone, the two ticketed Banksy exhibitions, where the city's other street art actually is, and where to buy a print.
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The Best Walks Along the Thames in London
The South Bank walk that takes in five free viewpoints, the Wapping riverside pub crawl, and the quiet Rotherhithe stretch into Greenwich — every walkable piece of the Thames Path in London.
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London With Children: Free Farms, Zoos and Days Out
Eight free city farms, a zoo scaled for under-tens, an indoor rollercoaster in Camden and the museum built entirely around children — most of it costs nothing.