A CITY & VILLAGE TOURS JAM BUSTER DAYTRIP

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LEGAL LONDON

NEW

A best selling tour for nearly thirty years - more than 100,000 people have visited Legal London with City & Village Tours in the company of our top notch Blue Badge Guides. The 2017 tour can run 10.30am to 4.30pm or start at midday and head home on the tail of the rush hour.

Come at 10.30am for morning coffee included in the tour fee. During the morning we are on foot to trace the history and peculiar practices of English law in an area of London that remains hidden to most visitors. We visit Lincoln’s Inn where no one should ask for whom the bell tolls , Staple Inn where wool was weighed and taxed before the Great Fire and end up in Carey Street the former home of the Bankruptcy Courts.

Add a one course pub lunch or have free time for lunch on Fleet Street which gives some extra time to enjoy the RAF church of St Clement Danes (oranges & lemons say the bells...) and the ever popular and rather wonderful Twinings Tea shop - London’s oldest retail premises with the capital’s smallest shop front. The day includes a short coach tour to see the Old Bailey and in the afternoon we visit the Royal Courts of Justice otherwise known as the High Court and explore Inner and Middle Temple where Rumpole of the Bailey had his chamber. It was in these atmospheric cobbled lanes that the BBC filmed their barristers drama Silk. For 2017 we go inside the spectacular round church of the Knights Templar to see the life size stone tomb effigies of the fighting monks. The tour fee includes a suggested donation for the church.

Time to buy tea on Fleet Street before heading out of London at 4.15/30pm ahead of the rush hour.

Midday Start Option

Arrive at midday for free time for lunch. Enjoy all the elements of the tour as described with a half way break and at the end of the tour sit together for fish & chips with a hot drink in an attractive pub before heading home at 6.30pm after the rush hour.