This updated 3rd edition of this delightful walking guide whose unique selling point is walking routes on `bird`s eye view` (isometric) mapping. Not just this, but the walks are informative & fun. Exploring London with this guide is like being taken by a friend who knows all the best restaurants, shops & attractions. It will introduce not only the famous sights but the atmosphere of the city as a whole. The new & contemporary cover emphasises these benefits, making it clear that the beautiful mapping is uniquely easy to use because it shows the street plan as well as the look of your surroundings. The routes are in all the most interesting areas of central London, plus a few on the outskirts. Most are about an hour long or can be joined together easily for long expeditions. ...

Time Out London Walks features 30 walks from London writers, each revealing a personal insight into their chosen corner of the capital. From ancient woodland to modern skyscrapers, motorway underpasses to stately homes, most parts of the city are subject to the scrutiny of the writers. The end result is a book that can be read with pleasure at home, as a collection of writing about London, & above all used as a thought-provoking guide to a series of walks through the capital. ...

Time Out’s London Walks
- Volume 2 is a collection of 30 walks recommended by London writers, journalists, novelists, comedians,
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This second volume of London Walks explores more of the capital with some of London's finest writers. Resident novelists, artists, comedians & historians observe the city around them, tapping into its history, revealing its beauty & exposing its secrets. In all, there are 25 walks around the capital, taking in everything from hospitals, churches, temples, mosques & synagogues to courts, places of execution & cemeteries. Whether you find yourself chasing mushrooms among the deer in Richmond Park, memorising a Coleridgian digression in a rural lane on Hampstead Heath, or eyeing up a Masonic vestment in a shop off Drury Lane, you should expect the unexpected. The highlights include: Claire Tomalin's journey to Greenwich with Samuel Pepys, dropping in on John Evelyn en route; Arthur Smith's eulogy to Balham; Frances Morgan's tour of the village community of Stoke Newington; Robert Elms's fond memories of Holborn in the 1970s; & David Aaronovitch on a discovery of the canals, rivers & creeks of east London. ...

London Walks in Easy English guides you through the capital’s busiest & most vibrant areas, with easy-to-follow walks described in conversational English. A world away from the dry, historically-oriented walking guides you may have encountered in the past, London Walks in Easy English will take you straight to the most exciting places in the capital, ensuring that you encounter London life in all its vivid colour, tradition, beauty & fun without having to wade through wordy prose. From the classrooms of London University to trials in the Old Bailey & the city’s cosmopolitan array of food shops selling exotic cuisine from around the world, this is a guide which will take you beyond the obvious big attractions & make sure you get to see a side of London that many Londoners don’t even know about. The ideal guide for travellers who speak English as a foreign language who are hoping to discover London for themselves! ...

” London Stories” is written by the expert guides who also produce the “ London Walks” series, & their knowledgeable stamp can be seen throughout this wonderful book. It will take you on at trek through London’s rich history & is a great way to discover hidden gems: explore London’s literary life, from Shakespeare to Dickens; tread cautiously through dark alleyways to Jack the Ripper’s haunts; enjoy a pint in a Soho pub, & prop up the bar with Dylan Thomas or Karl Marx; take a trip down London’s historic Thames- from Westminster to Greenwich, the home of time itself. The ideal companion for the urban rambler, as well as an entertaining & enlightening read in its own right, “ London Stories” is for those who love London, by those who know it best. ...

London in the Wallpaper City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

The fast-track guide for the smart traveller Wallpaper* City Guides present a tightly edited, discreetly packaged list of the best a location has to offer the design conscious traveller. Here is a precise, informative, insider`s checklist of all you need to know about the world`s most intoxicating cities. Whether you are staying for 48 hours or five days, visiting for business or a vacation, we`ve done the hard work for you, from finding the best restaurants, bars & hotels (including which rooms to request) to the most extraordinary stores & sites, & the most enticing architecture & design. Wallpaper* City Guides enable you to come away from your trip, however brief, with a real taste of the city`s landscape & the satisfaction you`ve seen all that you should. In short, these guides act as a passport to the best the world has to offer. ...

Map No. 176, West London, in the Ordnance Survey Landranger series at 1:50, 000, covering the western part of Greater London including Enfield, Barnet, Tottenham, Islington, Camden, Hampstead, Hendon, Brent, Edgware, Paddington, Hammersmith, Westminster, Lambeth, Wandsworth, Penge, Wimbledon, Croydon, Sutton, Purley, Richmond, Kingston upon Thames, Epsom, Esher, Hounslow, Ealing, Acton, Wembley, Southall, Harrow, Hayes, Hillingdon, London ...

Map No. 176, London West 1805-1822, in the Cassini Historical Series of old Ordnance Survey mapping of England & Wales at 1:50, 000 in a format designed to offer a convenient comparison with the present day coverage from the OS, & most locations in three different editions. Old historical maps have been combined so that the sheet lines correspond to the current Landranger series & reproduced with the scale changed from one inch to one mile to 1:50, 000. Most locations are covered by three separate maps, showing how the area has changed over the decades, with selected major cities also presented in a fourth edition. Old Series: the first detailed survey mapping dating for most areas from the first half of the 19th century, in black & white & with relief shown by hachuring. Revised New Series from 1880s/1900s, with some colouring & a mixture of hachuring & contour lines. Popular Edition from the inter-war years, with contour lines & colouring to indicate woodlands, parks, etc. New Popular Edition from the late 1940s, reproduced in the Cassini series for the major cities. Each map

Includes:: notes on the development of Ordnance Survey & the various series produced by them. For those interested in maps & cartography in general, the Cassini series also provides a fascinating insight into how Ordnance Survey cartographic style has developed over a period of over 100 years. Coverage in this title

Includes:: the present day western part of Greater London: Enfield, Barnet, Tottenham, Islington, Camden, Hampstead, Hendon, Brent, Edgware, Paddington, Hammersmith, Westminster, Lambeth, Wandsworth, Penge, Wimbledon, Croydon, Sutton, Purley, Richmond, Kingston upon Thames, Epsom, Esher, Hounslow, Ealing, Acton, Wembley, Southall, Harrow, Hayes, Hillingdon, London



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