The Clerkenwell Pub Walk, Monks, Malt and Mayhem. – Greater London, United Kingdom

EXPERIENCE

Not just a secret village clinging to a hillside a stone’s throw from St Paul’s Cathedral; Clerkenwell is now hip and media savvy, serving up delicious beers and spirits from time honoured pubs in one of the most evocative corners of the City.

Clerkenwell has got a story to tell – its very name – the clerks’ or students’ spring – is redolent of antiquity; and indeed this tiny hamlet serves up brimming draughts from the deep well of its history. We trace its radical and revolutionary past to its modern day media and designer present. We take in ancient squares and alleyways; a rambling Tudor Mansion here, a Norman Church there. We discover why it has played host to countless movies including Avengers, Sherlock, Batman, Inception, Skyfall, Shakespeare in Love and many more. We map out crooked streets intimate to Dodger and Fagin in Oliver Twist and seek out lost entrances to mysterious vaults and prison cells.
A ramble through a hidden village sprinkled with a selection of some of the best pubs in town, where Falstaff himself spent ‘the wildness of his youth’.

The walk meets at the exit to Barbican Tube station on the circle and district line and finishes at Exmouth Market where the closest Tube is Farringdon.

HIGHLIGHTS

Discover the history of Clerkenwell, a hidden village in the heart of London.
See ancient squares and alleyways, a Tudor Mansion and a Norman Church.
Visit some of the best old pubs in town and locations for blockbuster movies.

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