Una London guide to not miss any attraction, any monument, any important place to know London.
A printable guide to take with you on your next trip to London.
Here is the first initiative by Only in London: a detailed guide (in English) to help tourists visit London without wasting time and missing key places of the city.
1. See where the Gunpowder Plot was first contrived at Eastbury Manor House in Barking
2. Walk around the area where one of the most important battles in the War of the Roses took place – the Battle of Barnet
3. Have afternoon tea in William Morris’s historic Red House in Bexleyheath, an internationally significant home of the Arts & Crafts movement
4. Visit Neasden Temple in North West London, the first and largest traditional Hindu Mandir outside India
5. Cheer on the teams at the only NFL League Game outside of the USA at Wembley Stadium
6. Stroll the gardens of Down House in Bromley, home to Charles Darwin and where he wrote ‘On the Origin of Species’
7. Visit the resting place of Karl Marx at Highgate Cemetery
8. Explore ZSL London Zoo, Regent’s Park, the World’s oldest scientific Zoo
9. Sleep alongside the Egyptian mummies at the British Museum
10. Recreate the famous Beatles album cover on Abbey Road
11. Marvel at Shakespeare’s First Folio, the Magna Carta and Handel’s Messiah at the British Library
12. Drink at Europe’s longest champagne bar at St Pancras International
13. See where The Royal Ballet rehearse at a backstage tour of the Royal Opera House
14. Visit St Paul’s, the largest cathedral in England, with the largest crypt in Europe
15. Take a tour of Wembley Stadium, England’s national football stadium
16. Watch the Ceremony of the Keys, the world’s longest running ceremony of its kind, at the Tower of London
17. See Tower Bridge open one of 1,000 times per year
18. Be wowed by the largest cut and polished white diamond in the world – Cullinan I (First Star of Africa) at the Tower of London
19. Speak at the same place as George Orwell on ‘Speakers Corner’ in Hyde Park
20. Watch a performance at the famous Brit School in Croydon – whose alumni include Amy Winehouse, Adele and Kate Nash
21. Take in an exhibition at The Barbican, Europe’s largest arts and conference venue
22. Visit Singh Sabha Gurdwara in Southall, the largest Sikh temple outside of India
23. Join the company at Chickenshed in Southgate, the largest youth theatre in Europe
24. Experience a show at The O2, the World’s most successful entertainment venue
25. Stand where time begins, on the Greenwich Meridian Line
26. See the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum
27. Moonwalk to Michael Jackson in concert at The O2
28. See a show at Hackney Empire, where Charlie Chaplin, Stan Laurel and WC Fields trod the boards
29. Play a game on Hackney Marshes, the largest concentration of football pitches in Europe
30. Visit The Kurdish Museum and Library in Ravenscourt Park, the first museum for Kurdish Heritage in the World
31. Watch a film at Himalaya Palace in Southall, a ‘Chinese’ art deco cinema under a red pagoda roof
32. Browse though Westfield London – Europe’s biggest inner-city shopping complex
33. Visit Alexandra Palace, where the world’s first public broadcasts of high-definition television were made by the BBC
34. Visit the Fan Museum Greenwich – the first and only museum in the world devoted entirely to all aspects of the ancient art of the fan
35. Take a tour of Harrow Public School, famous for educating seven Prime Ministers, including Winston Churchill
36. Drink at Dickens’ and Thackary’s pub, the historical Trafalgar Tavern in Greenwich
37. See the world’s oldest insect at the Natural History Museum
38. Seek out ‘The Diver’ in Rainham – the only sculpture to stand in the River Thames
39. Connect to the world at Heathrow, Europe’s largest air hub
40. Marvel at the world’s largest collection of steam pumping engines at the Kew Bridge Steam Museum
41. Enjoy an organic pint at the World’s first organic pub, The Duke of Cambridge in Islington
42. Gaze upon the largest collection of dresses once belonging to Princess Diana at her former home, Kensington Palace
43. Join the party at Notting Hill Carnival, Europe’s largest street carnival
44. Peruse the largest weekly antiques market in the world on Portobello Road
45. See Pete Townsend’s smashed guitar at the V&A’s new Theatre and Performance Galleries
46. Find out where Hugh Grant met his Julia Roberts in the movie Notting Hill
47. Watch Peter Pan come alive in his spiritual home, Kensington Gardens
48. Explore the UK’s largest geographical collections at the Royal Geographical Society in Kensington
49. Stay in the room at the Cadogen Hotel on Sloane Street where Oscar Wilde was arrested
50. View the largest outdoor fruiting olive tree in Britain at the Chelsea Physic Garden
