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15 Great TV and Film Location Tours in London
London has starred in many films over the years, from the big blockbusters and famous franchises like Bond and Harry Potter to cult films and romantic comedies. Whether you’re a film buff or just want to hear some interesting movie trivia, here’s our roundup of the best self-guided walks and film location tours in London.
Most of these tours are walking tours, but check with the specific providers about private tours, BSL and accessibility provisions. Meeting points are given for all guided tours, but your tour guide will usually have an umbrella and a sign to help you spot them.
Film Tours by Genre
Romantic comedy film walks and tours.
Firstly, we have of course a free option for you. Check out our film lovers’ guide to British Rom-Coms and enjoy them at your own pace.
Notting Hill Rom-Com Tour
Richard Curtis has made some of the most famous British rom-coms of all time, and Notting Hill is one of his most-loved films. This two-hour guided walking tour of the famous West London neighbourhood includes a visit to the famous travel bookshop with the blue door, as well as Portobello Road market. The area tour also includes some locations from the Gywnneth Paltrow film Sliding Doors .
Cost: £ 15.00 Duration: 2 hours Starting Point: Holland Park Tube Station Date and times: Saturdays (Feb-Oct) 10:15 am Website: https://britmovietours.com/bookings/notting-hill-movie-tour/
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Bridget Jones Location Tour
Over the course of three films, novelist Helen Fielding’s romantic heroine Bridget Jones fell head over heels (often literally) in with posh men. Jones (Renee Zellweger) spends much of her time deliberating over whether to date the sensible, stable Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) or the slimy Daniel Cleaver. Follow in Jones footsteps as you visit 12 film locations including the exterior of Briget’s flat and the Inns of Court. The tour will also pass London landmarks including London Bridge and St Paul’s Cathedral, ending up at Tower Bridge.
Cost: £ 15.00 Duration: 2.5 hours Starting Point: Temple Tube Station Date and times: Fridays at 3pm (Feb-Oct) Website: https://britmovietours.com/bookings/bridget-jones-locations-tour/
Love Actually and Rom-Com London Locations Tours
The two and a half hour walking tour is perfect for anyone looking for meet-cute inspired date ideas, or film fans who want to relive moments from classic British Rom Coms on wander through central London. You’ll visit locations from Love Actually , Last Christmas , Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill along the way, ending up on the South Bank.
Cost: £ 15.00 Duration: 2.5 hours Starting Point: Next to the Amba Hotel by Charing Cross Station Date and times: Select Saturdays at 2:15pm Website: https://www.silverscreen.tours/tours/love-actually-rom-com-london-locations-tour/
Crime & Thriller film walks tours
Agatha christie london tour.
Agatha Christie is the best selling novelist of all time, and wrote some of the most famous detective fiction books ever written. Her works inspired many big and small screen adaptations, and this tour takes in the locations that inspired her famous murder mysteries. The crime-story inspired walk will take you through the West End, Bloomsbury and Mayfair, ending up at Green Park.
Cost: £ 15.00 Duration: 2.5 hours Starting Point: Euston Square Tube Station Date and times: Sundays at 10:30 (Feb-Oct) Website: https://briticontours.com/agatha-christie-london-tour/
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Gangsters of London Tours
Although this isn’t just a film location tour, it does have a pretty special tour guide. Your guide for this crime tour of London is the actor Vas Blackwood, who appeared in Guy Ritchie’s Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels . Join Vas on a two hour walk around the notorious East End neighbourhoods of Whitechapel, Bethnal Green, and Shoreditch to hear stories about the Krays and stop off at Lock Stock filming locations along the way,
Website: https://britmovietours.com/bookings/gangster-tour-of-london/
Find more crime locations for yourself with a little help from our guide .
Horror film tours
London’s old streets have inspired horror films from classic 60s and 70s chillers to contemporary cult classics like 28 Days Later . There are fewer guided walks for Horror films, but there are plenty of locations to discover on your own, or using a self-guided tour.
Chills of Chelsea of the Dead Audio Guide , London City Of The Dead
If the overpriced establishments of the King’s Road aren’t enough to chill your blood, then the Chills of Chelsea tour might just do it. Writer and lecturer Lauren Barnett is your narrator for this audio guide through the dark heart of Chelsea, including grisly stories, horrible histories and of course locations for classic horror films including Dracula A.D. 1972 and Theatre of Blood. The guide comes with an A5 full colour map and guide book.
Cost: £ 8.00 + postage for the map Date and times: Anytime, download it and start at your leisure Starting Point: Duke of York Square, SW3 Website: https://londonmonthofthedead.com/chillsofchelseaaudioguide.html
A Horror Movie Mini-Tour of London (The Omen)
London Walks run guided city walks all over the city, but it also has blog posts on suggested self-guided tours. One that might interest classic British Horror fans is this short guide to the 1976 horror classic The Omen which takes in 8 locations across London, but some of the most iconic and spooky locations are clustered in Fulham, West London, so head there if you’re short on time.
Cost: Free Dates and time: Anytime Starting Point: Fulham Website: https://www.walks.com/blog/a-horror-movie-mini-tour-of-london/
Dare to discover the inspiration for more macabre scenes yourself? Read our guide to Horror in the City .
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Film or Franchise location walks and tours
Harry potter.
The Harry Potter franchise seems to be the one with the highest number of unofficial tours, There are more wizard-location based tours in London than you can shake a wand at. Orient yourself with our Harry Potter London location guide and then check out some of these walking tours to started:
Wizards London Walking Tour (self guided)
The Magical London tour is a free Harry Potter location sightseeing tour. Put together by Blue Badge Tour Guide and author Richard Jones is a free, downloadable PDF guide to different film locations in central London. It’s one of the longer tours and covers a wide area, so it’s worth splitting it up over a weekend.
Cost: Free Date and times: Anytime Starting Point: Any point, but the full starts from Bank Station (Exit 3) Website: https://www.the-magician.co.uk/
Harry Potter Walking Tour, Strawberry Tours (free)
Strawberry Tours offers free guided walks around London, although pay what you feel tips are encouraged. Kicking off in Theatreland, this two hour walking tour will take in Potter film highlights including the location of The Ministry of Magic, the side streets that inspired Diagon Alley and Hardy’s Sweet Shop.
Cost: Free / pay what you feel Date and times: Weekdays at 3:30pm / Weekends at 11am and 3:30pm Starting Point: The Palace Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue Website: https://strawberrytours.com/london/tours/free-harry-potter-tour
Harry Potter London Locations Tour, Free Tours by Foot
Free Tours by Foot is another free / name your price walking tour company with a love of Harry Potter. This two and half hour magical walking tour will take place on foot and on the London underground. The tour of central London including Millenium Bridge (as scene being attacked by Death Eaters), Scotland Yard, Trafalgar Square where the final film had its premiere and Godwin’s Court aka Knockturn Alley).
Cost: Free / pay what you feel Duration: 2.5 hrs Date and times: Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2pm or self-guided via GPS Starting Point: Next to the Winston Churchill statue in Parliament Square Website: https://freetoursbyfoot.com/harry-potter-walking-tour-london/
The other iconic British film franchise that has inspired several location tours is Bond, aka James Bond, to be precise. London has features in several of the infamous agent 007 films including The Living Daylights , Die Another Day and Skyfall .
James Bond and the History of Espionage – Free, Strawberry Tours
Take a stroll around to discover the real-life spy stories that inspired Bond creator Ian Fleming, as well as set stories from filming and visit London landmarks including the Ministry of Defence, The Corinthia Hotel and Westminster Bridge where the tour ends.
Cost: Free / pay what you feel Duration: 2 hrs Date and times: Select Saturdays at 3:30pm Starting Point: In front of The Clermont, Charing Cross Website: https://strawberrytours.com/london/tours/free-james-bond-tour
James Bond Walking Tour – Brit Movie Tours
This two and half-hour walking tour around central London will include locations from famous Bond films including Skyfall , SPECTRE , No Time to Die , A View to a Kill , The Living Daylights as well as places connected creator Ian Fleming’s secret service past Part of the tour will involve catching buses in Zone1, so you’ll need your oyster card or contactless card/device for those sections. Highlights include the National Gallery, Whitehall and the oldest restaurant in London as featured in SPECTRE, finishing up at Vauxhall Underground station.
Cost: £ 15.00 Duration: 2.5 hrs Date and times: Thursdays at 2:30pm (May-Aug), Saturdays at 10:30am (Jan-Dec) Starting Point: In front of The Clermont, Charing Cross Website: https://britmovietours.com/bookings/james-bond-walking-tour-of-london/
James Bond BusTour of London – Brit Movie Tours
Brit Movie Tours also runs a bus tour for Bond lovers, although (somewhat disappointingly) it isn’t not wheelchair or pram/buggy accessible, and there’s no BSL interpreting. The mini-bus tour is a more extensive Bond tour that goes all over London from Wapping in the East End to The London Eye in Zone 1. Tour highlights include a visit toT he College of Arms from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, a stand in for St Petersburg in Goldeneye and Q’s house from No Time To Die.
Cost: £ 35.00 Duration: 4hrs Date and times: Sundays at 9:30am (Feb-Nov) Starting Point: Blackfriars Tube Station Website: https://britmovietours.com/bookings/spy-movie-london-tour/
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A self-guided London film locations walking tour (with map)
Posted on Last updated: August 4, 2023
Explore London through the locations of iconic films like Mary Poppins, Harry Potter and Bridget Jones’ Diary on this self-guided London film locations walking tour – map and directions included.
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From Mary Poppins and Lawrence of Arabia to Harry Potter and Love Actually , the streets, skylines and world-famous landmarks of London have formed the backdrop for hundreds of films. Every era of the city’s history has been recreated on screen, and it’s also been passed off as everything from 18th-century Manhattan to alien planets.
It’s hard to find a corner of the city which hasn’t appeared on film, but this self-guided walking tour takes you through some of the best London film locations. The walk covers almost five miles and takes around three hours, so grab your camera and join us for a journey through time and space – all without leaving the streets of London.
A self-guided London film locations walking tour
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Start your London film locations walking tour at Westminster Abbey (20 Dean’s Yard, SW1P 3PA). The nearest Tube station is Westminster, which is on the Jubilee, District and Circle lines. Or it’s 15 minutes’ walk from either Victoria or Waterloo train stations.
Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey has been a place of worship for over 1000 years old, with the oldest parts of the building dating from 1050. The abbey has seen the coronations of 40 monarchs and generations of royal weddings and funerals. And famous names from Sir Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin to Charles Dickens and Rudyard Kipling are buried here.
Westminster Abbey’s exterior has appeared in hundreds of films. But church authorities are picky about who can film inside. They didn’t approve of The Da Vinci Code (2006), so when Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou search Isaac Newton’s grave in the abbey for clues to the location of the Holy Grail in the film they were actually in Lincoln Cathedral.
But Tom Cruise pulled off the appropriately impossible-seeming mission of getting permission to film inside the abbey for the upcoming Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two (2024), the first time a major film crew has been allowed in.
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Next walk across Parliament Square past the Houses of Parliament.
The Houses of Parliament
The Palace of Westminster – better known as the Houses of Parliament – is seat of the UK’s House of Commons and House of Lords. The Gothic Revival building largely dates from the early 19th century after most of the previous building was destroyed in a fire.
The Elizabeth Tower featured in The Thirty Nine Steps (1978), which ends with the main character hanging onto Big Ben’s clock face – though unsurprisingly this was a studio replica not the real thing. The palace’s interiors were also used in Suffragette (2015) and Parliament Square was the site of the climactic showdown in V for Vendetta (2005).
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Westminster Bridge
On your right you’ll see Westminster Bridge. The first bridge was built here in 1750, which was replaced by the current cast iron version in 1862, making it London’s oldest surviving road bridge. On film it famously featured in apocalyptic thriller 28 Days Later (2002).
Cillian Murphy’s character is seen staggering across the bridge after waking up from a coma to find London deserted – though you need to get up at 4am too if you want to see it looking that empty. It also appeared in Bond films Die Another Day (2002) and Spectre (2015), with Blofeld’s helicopter shot down onto the bridge at the end of of Spectre .
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Follow Parliament Street/Whitehall north to the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, passing Downing Street on the way (0.5 miles). When the door to 10 Downing Street is shown on screen it’s usually a replica – or a similar looking door in Adam Street just off the Strand – but the real version did feature in wartime drama Darkest Hour (2017).
Trafalgar Square & The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square is named after the British naval victory at the Battle of Trafalgar and features 218-foot-tall Nelson’s Column. It’s appeared as the site for Victory Day celebrations in both Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and Wonder Woman (2017). A runaway dog also caused chaos in the square in 101 Dalmatians (1996).
Overlooking Trafalgar Square is the National Gallery. You can follow in the footsteps of James Bond in the gallery’s Sackler Room, where Daniel Craig met with Q (Ben Whishaw) in front of the JMW Turner painting The Fighting Temeraire in Skyfall (2012). And pupils from St Trinian’s ran riot in the galleries in the 2007 film of the same name.
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Take the back exit from the National Gallery and follow Orange Street past the Garrick Theatre – aka the Gotham Opera House where a young Bruce Wayne watches a performance with his parents in Batman Begins (2015). Then head down William IV Street and east along the Strand until you reach The Savoy (0.4 miles).
The Art Deco five-star Savoy hotel * opened in 1889 and was built for opera promoter Richard D’Oyly Carte. It was the height of luxury, with innovations like electric lighting and marble en-suites. A host of famous name from the world of film have stayed there, including Charlie Chaplin, Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart and Elizabeth Taylor.
On screen, The Savoy is where Julia Roberts’ character gives a press conference in Notting Hill (1999), with Hugh Grant passing himself off as a reporter from Horse & Hound magazine. It also appears in The Long Good Friday (1980) and Entrapment (1999).
If you fancy staying overnight, rooms at the Savoy start from around £600 and go up to over £4000 for a suite with a view of the Thames. Otherwise drinks at the hotel’s American Bar – London’s oldest cocktail bar – are a lot more reasonable.
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Carry on walking along the Strand to Somerset House (0.2 miles) .
Somerset House
You’d think that Somerset House’s grand Neoclassical frontage and central courtyard would make it easily recognisable, but it’s passed itself off as locations from across the world. Pierce Brosnan made two visits to Somerset House as James Bond – to a St Petersburg square in Goldeneye (1995) and the Ministry of Defence in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997).
It was also a Swiss bank in X-Men: First Class (2011) and 18th-century New York in Sleepy Hollow (1999). And has acted as a stand in for fellow London locations Devonshire House in The Duchess (2008) and Buckingham Palace in King Ralph (1991).
If you want to find out more, Somerset House runs occasional free film location tours.
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Backtrack slightly from Somerset House and cross Waterloo Bridge. Then turn left and walk along Southbank where you’ll pass a series of London film locations.
The benches in front of Gabriel’s Wharf are where Daniel (Liam Neeson) and Sam (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) have a heart-to-heart about relationships in Love Actually (2003). And the flat where Andrew Lincoln’s character lives is a little further along by the Oxo Tower.
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Tate Modern
Former power station turned contemporary art gallery, Tate Modern opened in 2000 and is one of the world’s largest museums of modern art. Its galleries appeared in Woody Allen’s tennis movie Match Point (2005) and the huge turbine hall was the ‘Ark of the Arts’ where rescued artworks were stored in dystopian thriller Children of Men (2006).
Tom Cruise also climbed to the top of the Tate’s distinctive 99-metre-tall chimney tower in Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), chasing August Walker (Henry Cavill).
Just outside Tate Modern is the pedestrianised Millennium Bridge, which opened in 2000 – then closed immediately as it was too wobbly, finally reopening two years later. The bridge was destroyed by the Dementors in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) and used in an alien evacuation scene in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014).
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Walk on along Southbank past Shakespeare’s Globe theatre, then turn left down Stoney Street just after passing the Clink Prison Museum, heading for Borough Market (0.6 miles). Look out for number 7 Stoney Street, which is where the Knight Bus stops outside the Leaky Cauldron Pub in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004).
Borough Market
Borough Market is one of London’s top foodie hotspots, and if you fancy refueling, head for coffee at the Monmouth Coffee Company or ice cream from Gelateria 3Bis.
On screen, Borough was home to Bridget Jones , and you can find her flat above The Globe Tavern on Bedale Street. Head under the railway bridge to see another location from the first film Bridget Jones’ Diary (2001) – the Greek restaurant where Hugh Grant and Colin Firth have their ridiculous fight is now Bedales restaurant and wine bar.
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Then walk across London Bridge, turning right on Gracechurch Street when you reach Monument Tube station and following it as far as Leadenhall Market (0.7 miles).
Leadenhall Market
There’s been a market here since the 14th century, originally selling meat and game. It was redesigned by Victorian architect Horace Jones in 1881 who created the current wrought iron and glass building, which is now full of restaurants, fashion and gift shops.
On screen, Leadenhall Market featured as Diagon Alley in the first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001). You’ll also find a second location for the Leaky Cauldron inside the market, which used a different location for the first film – look for the blue door at 42 Bull’s Head Passage, which is now an opticians’ office.
The market also featured in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011) and was an auction house in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001).
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Next head west from Leadenhall, walking down Cornhill to Bank Tube station and on along Cheapside until you reach St Paul’s Cathedral (0.7 miles).
St Paul’s Cathedral
St Paul’s Cathedral is one of London’s most iconic buildings, designed by Sir Christopher Wren in the 17th century after the previous cathedral was destroyed in the Great Fire of London. It has featured in film classics like Lawrence of Arabia (1962) and Great Expectations (1946), which had to carefully avoid showing WWII bomb damage.
But one of the best known scenes is from Mary Poppins (1964), where an old woman ‘Feeds the Birds’ from the cathedral’s steps (something you wouldn’t be allowed to do now!). It also made an appearance in the film’s 2018 sequel Mary Poppins Returns .
St Paul’s is also where Hugh Grant impersonates a nun in Paddington 2 (2017). And the spectacular spiral staircase known as the Dean’s Staircase, with a clever design which makes it look like it’s floating without any support, has been used in Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes (2009) and as Hogwarts’ Divination Stairwell in two Harry Potter films.
The cathedral is another London building that Tom Cruise has climbed up too – this time jumping off the domed roof for Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018).
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From Cheapside, walk up King Edward Street to Postman’s Park (0.3 miles).
Postman’s Park
Tranquil Postman’s Park opened in 1880, and is the location for Victorian artist George Frederic Watts’ ‘Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice’. This memorial to people who might otherwise have been forgotten has walls covered with hand-painted tiles commemorating the stories of 62 ordinary local people who gave their lives to save others.
The park was used as the location for a scene from the 2004 film Closer , featuring Jude Law and Natalie Portman, after the film’s writer Patrick Marber came across it by accident. It’s also used for a chase scene in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001).
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From Postman’s Park, walk along Little Britain to the final stop on your London film locations walking tour – the Church of St Bartholomew the Great (0.2 miles).
Church of St Bartholomew the Great
The Church of St Bartholomew the Great is the oldest parish church in London, and began life as an Augustinian priory in 1123. It was the venue for the fourth – unsuccessful – wedding of Charles and ‘Duckface’ in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994).
The church’s nave stood in for the crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Nottingham Cathedral in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991). And the interiors also featured in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) when Thor (Chris Hemsworth) has apocalyptic visions of Asgard, Shakespeare in Love (1998) and The Other Boleyn Girl (2008).
From the church, it’s a five-minute walk down Long Lane to Barbican Tube station, which is on the Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith and City lines. Or there are bars and cafés around Smithfield’s and Farringdon if you fancy a post-tour drink.
![movie tour london The Church of St Bartholomew the Great, London](https://www.ontheluce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/St-Bartholomew-the-Great.jpg)
London film locations walking tour map
If you’d like to do this London film locations walk yourself, click on the map below to access directions through Google maps. The full route is 5 miles (8km) and takes 1 hour 45 minutes to walk straight through, but allow three hours to include stops.
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Monday 3rd of February 2020
What a wonderful post. I hadn't realized that so much had been filmed at St Pauls Cathedral, although I can see why.
Monday 10th of February 2020
Yes it's such an impressive building isn't it!
Stuart Forster
Wednesday 22nd of January 2020
That's a lovely thing to do. I always see loads of Harry Potter fans at King's Cross station while waiting for trains back home.
Monday 27th of January 2020
Yes that's definitely one of the best known film spots in London!
Suzanne Jones
I love this! I've seen quite a few of them without even knowing they were film locations! Next time I visit I'll be looking out for them. Love the handy map too.
Thanks, and yes it's surprising just how many films have been filmed in London, and some you'd never guess!
Katja Gaskell
Monday 20th of January 2020
This is such a fun walk, I'm going to try it out with my Harry Potter-mad kids!
Hope they enjoy it!
I love the versatility of Somerset House! I think Rules restaurant on the Strand has also been Used in a Bond film fairly recently but I don’t recall which one.
Apparently it was Spectre, I'll have to go and check it out!
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This 3 hour coach tour starts in the City of London where you’ll see locations that are out of this world, as well as some others that are closer to home. But whether you are warding off Death Eaters, chasing villains or feeding the birds for tuppence a bag, you’ll be amazed at the number of world-famous films that have been made within the capital.
London is home to some of the biggest on screen names, so you’ll see locations that you’ll recognise from blockbuster movies including James Bond, Bridget Jones, Mission Impossible, Sherlock Holmes, Paddington Bear and more. Some of the tours highlights include the splash scene from the second Bridget Jones film, when Cruella De Vil hears Big Ben bong, when Sherlock Holmes fakes his death, and no London blockbuster tour would be complete without watching one of James Bond’s chase scenes!
As you are driven around, you’ll pass some of London’s most recognisable buildings, including St Paul’s Cathedral, the London Eye and that famous clock tower known to many as Big Ben (yes, we know it’s really called the Elizabeth Tower!) You’ll even find out how one location stood in for New York in the 1790s, St Petersburg in Russia, Pentonville Prison and Devonshire House in Piccadilly among other places.
The tour will include a mixture of drive by locations that you can see from the comfort of the coach, and stops where you can alight from the coach and see the locations up close. Walking is required to see some of the film locations, so please wear comfortable shoes and dress appropriately, but don’t worry the walk will be worth it when you’re shown some of London’s hidden gems.
Throughout the tour your guide will entertain you with trivia and about the making of these films and behind-the-scenes anecdotes that demonstrate that filming isn’t always as glamorous as it may seem!
This tour is a great way to see London. You’ll explore areas in the City of London, the City of Westminster and the South Bank, reliving romantic, heart-warming moment, exciting chase scenes, comedic moments, mysteries, crashes and splashes from some of Britain’s best loved films and on screen heroes.
Next time you watch any of the classic blockbuster movies featured on our Blockbuster London Tour, look out for all of the locations that you visited while you were in London.
- Find out where Eggsy does 15 doughnuts in Kingsman: The Secret Service
- See where Robert and Sophie run for their lives in the Da Vinci Code
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- Read about real heroes in the Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice, as seen in the film Closer
- Visit two of London’s Inns of Court
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