About the project

This blog covers a personal project to walk between every London Underground station and video the result. The walking part of the project started in August 2021 with a walk from South Ealing to Northfields station on the Piccadilly Line though I didn’t know then why I was filming myself walking, or what this would turn into.

The idea for the project developed – like so many other peoples’ changes of lifestyle – during lockdown. Before then, this blog was simply a history site for London, with no particular further aim. But this is why posts don’t start in August 2021 but actually some year previously.

The history project developed out of my interest in old maps and I sourced public-domain maps of London from every decade between 1800 and 1950 – a period when London expanded from a city which did not extend beyond Mayfair, Vauxhall, Bethnal Green or Bermondsey. During the Napoleonic Wars at the beginning of this period, Regent’s Park was still countryside and taking the waters of Kilburn was the height of fashion.

So, while this blog is a jumble of beginnings I try to bring order on this main page by linking to each London Underground line. On those Underground Line pages are links to each walk. On the walk pages (sometimes) are links to each street I’ve walked down.

Or find a walk super-quick by visiting the All The Walks page, where they are listed alphabetically.

There’s an upcoming walks page.

The main mapping website accompanies this blog and provides a different perspective.

There’s now a The Underground Map Substack and you can subscribe to it if you wish to partake in our various London-based musings.


 



Elephant & Castle to Lambeth North walk

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Tower Hill to Aldgate East walk

From Tower Hill station, we follow the signs for Tower Gateway station which takes us past part of a surviving section of the London Wall. The London Wall was first built by the Romans around 200 AD. While a few sections remain to this day, a particularly impressive part can be found on the short …

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Ealing Common to Acton Town walk

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Royal Oak to Paddington walk

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