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
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