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Special Interest Tours from London

In Association with British Tours Ltd.

Since British Tours was founded in 1958 we have offered many tours around special interests and specific themes.

Here we list some of the most frequently requested; they can vary in length, starting and drop-off locations and can be a combination of two or more subjects of particular interest to you. Some can form a part of one of our standard day tours or overnight tours.
 

In London visit Bloomsbury Square, Gordon Square, Fitzroy Square, Lytton Street and other locations associated with the Stephen sisters, Vanessa and Virginia, the Omega Workshops and the homes of Virginia Woolf.
Outside London visit Sissinghurst, the world famous gardens created by Vita Sackville-West and Sir Harold Nicholson, Knole, a magnificent house set in an extensive deer park owned by Lord Sackville, Charleston, discovered by Virginia and Leonard Woolf when Virginia's sister was looking for a place in the country and Monk's House where Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard lived in 1919

Most places associated with Dickens - where he spent his childhood, his holidays, his honeymoon, where he wrote his books, the towns and the countryside that inspired him - remain unchanged and provide added understanding of this brilliant novelist.

As part of a tour of London we can arrange for you to have an exclusive personal tour of the Houses of Parliament, known as the Palace of Westminster. Originally built in the 11th century, the current structure is in the lavishly decorated Neo-Gothic style and since the 16th century has been the seat of the two Houses, the Lords and the Commons. Some advance notice is required for this tour.
 

Legal London can be divided into two parts - the historical and the present day justice system. The historical tour includes four great Inns of Court which originated in the 13th century. The present day can visit Bow Street Magistrate Court (the lowest court in the land), the Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court, the House of Lords (the highest court in the land) and the Royal Court of Justice. With the exception of the House of Lords, the public are able to enter these courts and see them in action.
 

See the country of Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stephenson and Thomas Hardy; places associated with Ruskin, Wordsworth, Vita Sackville-West and the Bloomsbury group including Virginia Woolf and D H Lawrence; the homes of the Brontes, George Bernard Shaw, Keats and Henry James and the castle in which Rudyard Kipling lived.
 

In London, visit the sights associated with Sir Winston Churchill, recently voted the greatest Briton of all time. In London see the Cabinet War Rooms, St Margaret's Westminster where he married, Palace Gate where he lived in London, his statue in Parliament Square and memorial in the Abbey.

Outside London, either visit his birthplace at magnificent Blenheim Palace and his grave at Bladon - or Chartwell in Kent, his home from 1924 to 1965.

All sights could be visited on an overnight tour.
 

"The Garden of England" grows wonderful grapes - see wine-making at its best and taste some of the fine produce. Kent also grows a good quality of hop, essential for brewing top quality beer and visit to a hop farm is a most interesting experience.
 

The greatest of the nineteenth century designers who died over 100 years ago, created textiles, stained glass, wallpapers and carpets to counteract the over-fussy decoration of the Victorian era; they are timeless and as popular now as ever they have been.
 

Visit her birthplace, the house where she died, her grave and memorial and the towns and countryside that so inspired her writing as well as the beautiful locations in which her novels were made into films.
 

Available only during July and August

It was in 597 that Pope Gregory sent Saint Augustine to re-establish Christianity in Britain - your tour starts with a stone cross commemorating his landing 1,400 years ago.
 

In London, see the places associated with John Wesley (1703-1791), founder of the Methodist Church. Visit the Chapel in which he preached and his House with his possessions on display. If you are also interested in seeing other London sights, you can visit these places as part of a 7 hour London tour.
Out of London, visit Oxford, the oldest university city in England, home of Christ Church, where Wesley attended together with his brother Charles. You can visit Christ Church as part of a 9 hour Oxford tour, or 9 hour Cotswolds.
 

These are private tours. Please email number of people, ages of children, dates, hotel you are staying at in London and we will get back to you with quote for you.

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