LONDON BICYCLE’s WESTERN ADVENTURE:

A longer distance tour on electrical bicycles (not that you need them, of course)


Here you have the map of THE ROUTE, and most of the landmarks on a CLOCK-WISE order

Atention to detours and diversions!

This guide is taking you to a variety of places different to the strict tour, giving you the chance to adventure yourself, cycling or walking, in the different districts, and getting to know them a little more in deep.

Chapter 1

START LBTC. 74 KENNINGTON ROAD

LAMBETH WALK

DAMIEN HIRST’s’ art gallery

Former RAGGED SCHOOL, now art gallery

(Detour towards former ROYAL DOULTON FACTORY, riverside, LAMBETH PALACE)

VAUXHALL (18th c.)PLEASURE GARDENS. 

CITY FARM

MI6 HQS

THE VAUXHALL TAVERN

(Detour BONNINGTON SQ.)

KENNINGTON OVAL CRICKET. 

STOCKWELL-LITTLE PORTUGAL. Portuguese Shops and eateries

Chapter 2

You are entering the London Borough of Wandsworth

NINE ELMS

NEW COVENT GARDEN

USA EMBASSY

BATTERSEA POWER STATION

CHELSEA BRIDGE

BATTERSEA PARK

(Detour along the river to BATTERSEA, WANDSWORTH and PUTNEY)

Chapter 2 bis  LONG detour

(Detour along the river to BATTERSEA Village, WANDSWORTH and PUTNEY)

Chapter 3. Chelsea

ALBERT BRUDGE.

You are, now, in the RB of KENSINGTON & CHELSEA

CHEYNE WALK. Georgian 

ROYAL HOSPITAL, CHELSEA

(OSCAR WILDE in Tite Street, ARMY MUSEUM, CHELSEA PHYSIC GARDEN)

(Former DUKE OF YORK BARRACKS, SAATCHY GALLERY, and around SLOANE SQUARE)

KING’S ROAD

(detour: Swinging London KING’S ROAD)

CHELSEA GREEN. Shops and eateries 

chapter 3 b. Westwards from chelsea

Chapter 4. SOUTH KENSINGTON

MICHELIN HOUSE

(Detour around SOUTH KENSINGTON LU STATION and towards GLUCESTER ROAD and EARLS COURT)

SOUTH KENSINGTON NATIONAL MUSEUMS 

(A more urban shortcut towards HYDE PARK CORNER)

EXHIBITION ROAD

IMPERIAL COLLEGE, ROYAL SCHOOL OF MINES, ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC

(More about the SOUTH KENSINGTON)

Chapter 4 b. Royal albert hall & albert memorial

Chapter 5. KENSINGTON GARDENS & HYDE PARK

KENSINGTON GARDENS

A few more notes about the ALBERT MEMORIAL & the ROYAL ALBERT HALL

(Detour to KENSINGTON, to the North of the park and to BAYSWATER)

HYDE PARK

Site of the CRYSTAL PALACE

DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN 

THE LIDO

(Detours to the North of the park and to MARBLE ARCH, EDGWARE ROAD, BAYSWATER)
THE LONG WATER

ROTTEN ROW

FRENCH & KUWAITÍ EMBASSIES  (detour from here: see CHAPTER 5)

APSLEY HOUSE

 

Chapter 5. Back to lambeth, through belgravia, pimlico and westminster

MOTCOMB & WEST HALKIN ST. Shops and eateries.

BELGRAVE SQUARE

EATON PLACE. Upstairs Downstairs location

CHESTER SQUARE

ECCLESTON & WARWICK SQUARE

VINCENT SQUARE

TATE BRITAIN

Chapter 6. Duke of wellington place, constitution hill, green park and buckingham palace

(A few notes about BELGRAVIA)

APSLEY HOUSE

DUKE OF WELLINGTON: STATUE & ARCH

CONSTITUTIONAL HILL

CANADA GATE

QUEEN VICTORIA MEMORIAL

BUCKINGHAM  PALACE, PIMLICO

Chapter 7. The mall

ST.JAMES’S PALACE. CLARENCE HOUSE

(Detour around the ST.JAMEKS’ district)

MARLBOROUGH HOUSE

KING GEORGE VI & QUEEN ELIZABETH MEMORIALS

CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE

HORSE GUARDS PARADE

CHURCHILL WAR ROOMS

 

Chapter 7 b. An alternative route: birdcage walk

WELLINGTON BARRACKS

QUEEN ANNE’ GATE

 

Chapter 8. 

METHODIST CENTRAL HALL

WESTMINSTER ABBEY

THE PALACE OF WESTMINSTER

(A few extra notes about OLD WESTMINSTER)

WESTMINSTER BRIDGE

Chapter 9. South of the river

LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH

COUNTY HALL

SHELL CENTRE

FORMER WATERLOO INTERNATIONAL

BANKSY TUNNEL

(NECROPOLIS RAILWAY STATION)

(LINCOLN MEMORIAL TOWER)

WILLIAM BLAKE LIVED HIRE

HERCULES HOUSE. ASTLEY LIVED HERE 


You will visiting 2 Boroughs, 1 Royal Borough and 1 City. And multiple districts, the names of which you do not have remember… just keep this guide with you

London, North and South… of the Thames

Working class, industrial ones… and the playground  of the World’s wealthiest 

A mews (before, for the poor! Now, dwellings of the wealthy)

A royal palace

A former POWER STATION


You will see from very close range the Secret Intelligence Services HQ (a not a so secret place, by the way) not far away from where MARMITE was originally  made , and from where the first VAUXHALL car came out production

You will pass the famous sporting arena that hosted the first FA CUP FINAL and the first FOOTBALL international match… and which is not a football stadium

You are right… what you will see is a CRICKET GROUND


You will cycle along 5 great parks of London (4 of them Royal)…

All London Parks

And visit (yes, you can visit what used to be the  WORLD’S most famous POWER STATION (even you can “visit”one of the chimneys…)

Not this one!

BATTERSEA POWER STATION is no longer in operation. Note that you will not be able to charge your bicycle’s battery.

Which is next to the WORLD’S most famous CATS & DOGS home

You will be admiring one of London’s  2 PAGODAS

Visit KEW GARDENS and you will see the other one

And one of the former Royal Palaces 

A Tudor one, used to stand on this site

And  you might be seeing the  dwelling of a very famous gay person, whose gayness caused his demise

OSCAR WILDE, living in TITE ST., CHELSEA, at the height of his fame. After arrest, proces, sentencing and prison, he ended up in the famous PÈRE LACHAISE CEMETERY. Hang on, talking about cemeteries, in London we have the “MAGNIFICENT SEVEN”!

After which you might bump into some elegantly and colourfully dressed pensioners who live in a huge retirement home

And when they fall ill and end in hospital, understandable given their age, they find themselves in “the MARGARET THATCHER INFIRMARY”

The one to the right… a famous photo indeed!


Those pensioners you have seen walking CHELSEA’s KING’S ROAD, were youngsters when this very same KING’S ROAD was the stumping ground of the famous: 1960s sWINGING LONDON…

A temple of an Islamic sect…

Princess Diana’s Memorial Fountain…

YOU CAN BOOK NOW…


please, come 15 min. Before the start of your tour. And you will be checked in

But, in this guidE you will find, as well…


Plenty of ideas and references to many other parts of London, and their attractions, for you to visit .

 

In fact, whenever you will see this symbol  

more information is added, or  a diversion or a  detour is included