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Wind in the Willows - the Thames from Richmond to Twickenham
Joined 2023
Your dreams of English countryside come true in the city. Richmond is Sir David Attenborough's favourite place on the planet. We see a wide village green, narrow lanes, the Tudor gatehouse of Richmond Palace and the Old Deer Park. Swimming birds and working boathouses await you, as we cross Richmond Bridge to walk southwards along the river, passing Marble Hill House and other mansions with parklands and formal gardens as well as wildflowers, paddling children and dogs.
Itinerary
This itinerary can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Send me a message with your requests!
Meeting Point
Richmond Station or your hotel
Richmond Green
The traditional village green
The lanes
Between the green and the high street are narrow old lanes with small shops
Richmond Palace Gatehouse and Old Palace Yard
Henry VIII's Wardrobe, all that is left of the palace, Trumpeter's House
Old Deer Park and Twickenham Bridge
Swimming birds and boathouses on the quay
Richmond Bridge, Riverside path with mansions and parklands
Marble Hill House exterior, Orleans House grounds, stables and restored octagonal room
The White Swan pub
Tea-break at a traditional old riverside pub so close to the river you might get your feet wet!
York House gardens
Riverside rockery and famous 'Naked Ladies' statues
Twickenham quay and old lanes of Twickenham
View to Eel Pie Island, famous for rock concerts in the 1960s
St Mary's Church
Twickenham High Street
Short bus-ride back to Richmond Station (Southwest Trains, the District Line and the Overground)
Ending Point
Richmond Station
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This tour can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Click below to send me a message with your requests.
Inclusions & Exclusions
Only the guide's fee is included.
You pay your own transportation and any food, drink and souvenirs.
Tour Important Information
Wear good walking shoes.
Important message from the supplier
I'm a guide for walking tours; I don't have a car.
Cancellation Policy
- Free cancellation - 8 days prior to meeting time
- 50% Refund - 3 to 7 days prior to meeting time
- No Refund - Within 2 day(s) prior to meeting time
Joined 2023
About Tour Guide Laura A.
I'm a qualified London guide now offering History Walks with Gender, Sex and Class. Walks focus on the lives of poorer working people rarely described in historical accounts except as criminals or objects of charity. When there’s an opportunity to talk about women I’ll take it, and social class is always on the table. I've been a writer, researcher and critical historian all my life, and I've been a Londoner since the 1960s, although I've left to live in other towns and countries. Author of Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry, for many years I've focused on getting the stories out of women and others marginalised because of being poor, foreign, ‘different’ or doing jobs some folks think are Wrong, in the present and in the past. I'm known as The Naked Anthropologist.
$389/ per group
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