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Practical London guides tagged Free things to do.
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Sky Garden London: Free Tickets, Booking and Opening Hours
Sky Garden is free, but its timed tickets come out every Monday, three weeks ahead. How to book, the ways in once they have gone, the hours, the terrace, sunset times and the free viewpoints nearby.
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British Museum: Free Entry, Opening Hours and the Bayeux Tapestry
The British Museum is free, with a free timed ticket for busy days. Where the Bayeux Tapestry tickets stand, the entrances, opening hours, and what to see in one or two hours.
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Christmas Markets in London 2026: Dates, Hours and What Each One Is For
Every London Christmas market with its 2026 dates where they are out, 2025's where they are not, opening hours, what to eat, cash or card, and when to go to avoid the crush.
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A Christmas Lights Walk in London: Oxford Street to Trafalgar Square in Ten Stops
A numbered after-dark walk through London's Christmas lights, from the Oxford Street stars through Bond Street, the Regent Street angels, Carnaby and Seven Dials to the Covent Garden and Trafalgar Square trees. With the 2026 switch-on dates, when it gets dark and which night is quietest.
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A Harry Potter Filming Locations Walk: Leadenhall Market to Lambeth Bridge in Nine Stops
A numbered walking route through the London locations used in the Harry Potter films, from Leadenhall Market and the Leaky Cauldron door to Gringotts, Westminster station and the Knight Bus bridge, in two halves. With the days each stop opens.
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The Best Places to See Autumn Leaves in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List
Seven of fifteen independent sources name Richmond Park, Kew's own hours cut by two hours the day the clocks go back, and Kew's head of tree collections is worried about autumn 2026.
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The London Banksy Route: Ten Originals from St James's to Stoke Newington
A numbered route past the best original Banksys still standing in London, from the 2026 statue on Waterloo Place to the 2001 Royal Family in Stoke Newington — on foot, with one Tube ride and one Overground train where the walk would otherwise drag.
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A Walk from Canary Wharf to Greenwich: Under the River in Eleven Stops
A numbered walking route from the Crossrail roof garden to Greenwich Park, going under the Thames through the 1902 Greenwich Foot Tunnel. With prices and what is open on which day.
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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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Chelsea to Belgravia: A Blue Plaque Walk in Eleven Stops
Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Bram Stoker and George Eliot lived within ten minutes of each other. A numbered walking route through the densest run of blue plaques in London, with what is open on which day.
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Notting Hill's Colourful Houses: Which Streets Actually Have Them
Notting Hill's colorful houses are on eleven residential streets, not on Portobello Road. Start at Hillgate Place, two minutes from Notting Hill Gate station.
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Banksy and London Street Art: What's Still There
Fifteen Banksys still standing and the ones that are gone, a walking route past the central London ones, the Banksy pieces you can see indoors, where the city's other street art actually is, and where to buy a print.
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The Hampstead Heath to Primrose Hill Walk: Two Free Skyline Views
A numbered walk from Hampstead village over the Heath to Kenwood House, Parliament Hill's protected view, Keats House and Primrose Hill. Ten stops, about 9km, with what is open on which day.
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Hidden London: 20 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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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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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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A Walk Through Soho and Chinatown: Tin Pan Alley to Gerrard Street in Eleven Stops
A numbered walking route through Soho from Denmark Street to Chinatown: the plaques to Marx, Mozart and Blake, Berwick Street market, Kingly Court, a churchyard raised by its burials, and where to eat on the way. With what is shut on which day.
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A Walk Around Covent Garden: Leicester Square to Somerset House in Eleven Stops
A numbered walking route through Covent Garden, from the Leicester Square ticket booth to Somerset House, taking in a Victorian bookselling alley, Seven Dials, the Apple Market and a free rooftop terrace over the Piazza. With the one day the markets change.
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A Walk Along the South Bank: Westminster to Tower Bridge in Eleven Stops
A numbered riverside route from the London Eye to Tower Bridge, taking in a free gallery, a free view, a second-hand book market and a legal graffiti tunnel. With the one day of the week not to do it.
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The Regent's Canal from King's Cross to Camden: A Walk in Ten Stops
A numbered towpath route from Granary Square to Camden Market, taking in a free nature reserve, three working locks and a gasholder with a lawn inside it. With the hours that decide when to set off.
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The Best Walks Along the Thames in London
The South Bank walk past Tate Modern and Borough Market, 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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A Walk from Fitzrovia to Mayfair: Squares, Savile Row and the Arcades in Eleven Stops
A numbered walking route from Fitzroy Square to Green Park by the back streets: All Saints, Savile Row, both Piccadilly arcades, the reopened Grosvenor Square and Shepherd Market. With what is shut on which day.
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A Walk from Baker Street to Marylebone Through Regent's Park in Eleven Stops
A numbered walking route from 221b Baker Street through Regent's Park's rose garden and Nash terraces to Daunt Books, the free Wallace Collection and Bond Street. With what is open on which day.
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A Walk Around the City of London: Bank to Tower Bridge in Eleven Stops
A numbered walking route through the Square Mile, from the Bank junction to Tower Bridge, taking in Leadenhall Market, a bombed church that became a garden and a free view from the 58th floor. With what is open on which day.
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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 let anyone use theirs — organised by area, built from the UK's own public toilet database.
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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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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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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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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 on a Budget: What a Day Actually Costs
A careful day in London costs about £32 and a comfortable one about £150. What you actually pay for a bed, a meal and a day's travel — and every route to paying less for each.
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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.
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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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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: The Best Areas to Head For
Battersea's turbine halls, Canary Wharf's underground malls and the Barbican's raised walkways: which parts of London work when it rains, and why, with the theatre, cinema and immersive shows nearby woven in.
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A Walk Through Westminster: Westminster Bridge to Trafalgar Square in Eleven Stops
A numbered walking route through Westminster, from the bridge to Trafalgar Square, taking in the free court most people walk past, a free view over the park and the ceremony that only happens three days a week. With what is open on which day.
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A Riverside Pub Walk from Wapping to Canary Wharf: Four Historic Pubs in Eleven Stops
A riverside pub walk from Wapping to Canary Wharf in eleven numbered stops, built around the Town of Ramsgate, the Captain Kidd, the Prospect of Whitby and The Grapes. With opening hours, kitchen times, who takes bookings and a map.
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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.