London

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Capital of the United Kingdom. All sorts of walks. The Thames Path runs right through the city center and you can hop on the London Eye after being fooled at the ticket counter and view forward and backward on your trail.

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Books

Stanfords
United Kingdom
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • Walking the Canals of London
  • Walking the Canals of London by John Merrill is a guidebook to walking the capitals inland waterways. Starting from the Limehouse Basin, the walks fully explore Regent’s canal, the Paddington branch of the Grand Union Canal, the Hanwell Flight and the River Thames from Richmond to Limehouse Basin - thereby completing the London Canal Loop. One... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • Middlesex & West London - Pub Strolls
  • Pub Strolls in Middlesex & West London is a collection of 30 short circular walks based on good local pubs, and includes routes near Staines, Hounslow, Hammersmith, Ealing, Hillingdon, Brent, Camden, Finchley and Barnet. Each walk begins and ends with a pub chosen for its welcome and its food, and varies in length from 1 to 5 miles. Each pub... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • People in London: One Photographer. Five Years. The Life of a City.
  • London is one of the world`s greatest cities. Filled with people of all races, religions and nationalities, and packed with energy, it is a dynamic melting pot and a colourful testimony to the human spirit. Over five years, photographer Richard Slater has traversed the streets of the city, photographing, meeting and talking with ordinary... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • Vauxhall
  • Police, methylated tramps, Nigerian royalty, gypsies, Irish aunts, teachers, thieves, cockneys and homesick Jamaicans clamour for young Michael`s attention. His world is bursting with all walks of Lambeth life in the early 1970s. Among the terraces, railway arches, bombsites and river mud of Vauxhall, he discovers the meaning of slum... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary
  • A Sunday Times Nature Book of the YearA nature diary by award-winning novelist, nature writer and hit podcaster Melissa Harrison, following her journey from urban south London to the rural Suffolk countryside.”A writer of great gifts.” Robert Macfarlane”The journal of a writer to compare to Thomas Hardy. Melissa Harrison is among our most... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • London`s Lost Rivers: A Walker`s Guide: Volume 2
  • Tracking eleven rivers beneath London that have been culverted, placed in tunnels, or diverted into the sewer system.Below the pavements, out of sight, a network of secret rivers pulses beneath the capital`s busy pavements. The second volume of London`s Lost Rivers explores eleven more rivers that have been buried, hidden or mislaid across the... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • Camra`s London Pub Walks
  • From the bucolic charms of Hampstead Heath to the bustle of Marylebone, this pocket-sized guide will lead the serious rambler and more casual walker on voyages of discovery, each with great pubs at its heart. The walks are clearly mapped and illustrated, with detailed information on how to link multiple walks together. Over 160 pubs are... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • Beastly Journeys: Unusual Tales of Travel with Animals
  • David Attenborough, Dion Leonard, Dervla Murphy and Brian Jackman are just four of the authors whose work features in this new anthology from Bradt focusing on true stories about travelling with animals. In Beastly Journeys, there are 46 tales of extraordinary animal travel experiences, from hilarious holidays with pets to journeys on which... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • DK Eyewitness London
  • Planning a trip to London? Look no further.Whether you want to tread the footsteps of kings and queens in the royal palaces, take a break from sightseeing in one of the city`s many parks, or sample the tantalizing array of street food from around the world, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that London has to... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • Walking the Grand Union Canal from London to Birmingham
  • One of England`s finest canal walks - 153 miles - from the River Thames to Gas Street Basin, Birmingham. Details of shorter route via the Paddington Arm. Can be done over 9 stages with good interlinking transport at the end of each stage. Badge and certificate available for the successful. Includes full description and maps, photos, history... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • Rebel Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London`s Radical History
  • Join us at Stanfords on Tuesday 18th June as we set out on a journey to uncover London`s Radical History with David Rosenberg as he introduces a new edition of his book `Rebel Footprints`The radical response to conservative heritage tours and banal day-tripper guides, Rebel Footprints brings to life the history of social movements in the... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • South Downs - 20 Country Walks For All The Family
  • Batsford`s Walking Guides is an exciting new gift series of walking books, aimed at the weekend, family walker. These small-format, portable, hardback books have an attractive retro feel, with nostalgic line drawings and hand-drawn maps. Each of the 20 walks have been carefully selected to appeal to family walkers, most are circular and none... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • Railway Walks: LMS
  • Jeff Vinter, consultant to the BBC`s popular ”Railway Walks” series, here provides a detailed guide to ten of the best railway walks in the territory of the former London Midland and Scottish Railway. These range from the Midland Railway`s express line through the Peak District to the incredible Cromford and High Peak Railway, built before... Read more
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Maps

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United Kingdom
  • London West 1920
  • Map No. 176, London West 1920, in the Cassini Historical Series of old Ordnance Survey mapping of England and Wales at 1:50,000 in a format designed to offer a convenient comparison with the present day coverage from the OS, and most locations in three different editions. Old historical maps have been combined so that the sheet lines correspond... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • London Historical Maps Box Set (5-map set)
  • London Historical Set of five maps in the Cassini Historical Series reproducing old Ordnance Survey mapping of England and Wales at 1:50,000. The set consists of the four Cassini maps showing the capital between 1805 and 1948, and has as a bonus map a reproduction of Stanfords street plan London at six inches to one mile from 1891.The four... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • London High 5 Edition Street Plan
  • The first water-resistant “Comfort Map“ with direct access to useful additional information from the InternetLondon in a scale of 1:20,000 including tourist destinations (Hampstead Heath, Olympic Park and Greenwich) presented on a practical map; inclusive of the High 5 Edition app technology for calling up additional travel information and many... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • London Greater London Street Finder PAPERBACK
  • Detailed paperback street atlas covering the whole of Greater London at three different scales: 1:10,000 scale covers central London; 1:20,000 scale extends from Welwyn Garden City in the north to Gatwick Airport in the south and from Windsor in the west to Gravesend in the east; 1:63,360 scale extends from Highbury in the north to Clapham in... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • London East 1920-1921
  • Map No. 177, London East 1920-1921, in the Cassini Historical Series of old Ordnance Survey mapping of England and Wales at 1:50,000 in a format designed to offer a convenient comparison with the present day coverage from the OS, and most locations in three different editions. Old historical maps have been combined so that the sheet lines... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • London
  • London at 1:50,00 with mapping from the Ordnance Survey’s Landranger series published by Cassini to add to their extensive coverage of the city on historical maps reflecting different periods in its development. Unlike the Landranger series which splits the city east/west, the Cassini version is centred on Charing Cross and covers most of the... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
Stanfords
United Kingdom
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • London 1805-1822
  • London in 1805-1822 in the Cassini Historical Series reproducing old Ordnance Survey mapping of England and Wales at 1:50,000. The four London maps cover roughly the area of the present day Greater London rather than following the format of rest of the series which is designed to correspond to the current Landranger maps. Mapping is identical... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • London West 1805-1920 (3-map set)
  • Map No. 176, London West 1805-1920 (3-map set), in the Cassini Historical Series of old Ordnance Survey mapping of England and Wales at 1:50,000 in a format designed to offer a convenient comparison with the present day coverage from the OS, and most locations in three different editions. Old historical maps have been combined so that the sheet... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • Luxembourg North
  • One of two topographic survey maps of Luxembourg at 1:50,000, with contours at 10-metres intervals and additional relief shading. An overprint highlights long-distance footpaths, including the GR5 (E-2), cycle routes, and various places of interest, including campsites. The map covers an area of approximately 53 x 43 km / 33 x 27 miles. Map... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • London 1897-1898
  • London in 1897-1898 in the Cassini Historical Series reproducing old Ordnance Survey mapping of England and Wales at 1:50,000. The four London maps cover roughly the area of the present day Greater London rather than following the format of rest of the series which is designed to correspond to the current Landranger maps. Mapping is identical... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • London East 1805-1922 (3-map set)
  • Map No. 177, London East 1805-1922 (3-map set), in the Cassini Historical Series of old Ordnance Survey mapping of England and Wales at 1:50,000 in a format designed to offer a convenient comparison with the present day coverage from the OS, and most locations in three different editions. Old historical maps have been combined so that the sheet... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • Luxembourg South
  • One of two topographic survey maps of Luxembourg at 1:50,000, with contours at 10-metres intervals and additional relief shading. An overprint highlights long-distance footpaths, including the GR5 (E-2), cycle routes, and various places of interest, including campsites. The map covers an area of approximately 53 x 43 km / 33 x 27 miles. Map... Read more
Stanfords
United Kingdom
  • London 1920
  • London in 1920 in the Cassini Historical Series reproducing old Ordnance Survey mapping of England and Wales at 1:50,000. The four London maps cover roughly the area of the present day Greater London rather than following the format of rest of the series which is designed to correspond to the current Landranger maps. Mapping is identical to the... Read more
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