The Notting Hill FREE Guided Walk

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Walk Notting Hill in Dickens' Footsteps

Dickens description of the Notting Hill Piggeries and Potteries:

"In a neighbourhood of one of the most beautiful parts of the metropolis...studded thickly with elegant villas and mansions lies a plague spot scarcely equalled for its insalubrity by any other in London."

Comments by Walk Participants

"You were so knowledgeable which made it so interesting." PE

"I was very impressed with your preparation and knowledge.  I thought it was an excellent walk"VB

"I really enjoyed your walking tour the other day, because I am quite interested in history and culture in this country." MK (Japan) 

"I was very pleased with the walk. You set just the right tone and you were incredibly knowledgeable. ..your descriptions of how people lived brought me back in time."SC

The two hour Notting Hill Walk includes:

• a walk down 'Cut Throat Lane'
• the notorious Piggeries and Potteries 'plague spot'
• Notting Hill's Hippodrome race course built to rival Epsom 
• the secret bunker
• the Ladbroke Estate’s elegant houses and garden squares
• suffragette leader Emily Pankhurst's house
• the Nottingdale work house
• Booth's 19th Century Poverty Map of the district
• the Notting Hill race riots
• Rachmanism-intimidation and evictions
• social ‘cleansing‘ and gentrification

Meeting and Finishing Point - Outside Holland Park Tube Station