London Loo & Sewer Walk - a history of the capital’s crap

A guided walk on roads, parks and riverside. Generally flat easy walking, with some steps.

Start Tower Hill tube

End Near Goodge Street tube

Difficulty Easy

Length 4.8 miles

Total ascent 132 ft

All donations from this walk will go to Bowelbabe Fund for Cancer Research

This is a journey from Roman times to the present day following London’s ongoing issues with sewage. Along the way, you can learn out about Samuel Pepys’ unwelcome overflow and Dick Whittington’s giant toilet (with seating for over 100). Find out what really is under the Thames embankments and why the big stink of 1858 lead to a complete overhaul of the city’s drainage.

Also included along the route are a tucked away cocktail bar and café in a Victoran men’s loos, plus details and locations of the newly opened Tideway super sewer along the Thames that cost over £4.5 billion.

This walk is entirely above ground and we do not enter any sewers.

If this walk is a repeat run of the walk on Sat 4th October