Londinium's Footprint: Roman Wall Walk
About the Tour
Roam in the footsteps of the ancients...and the medievals, and the Victorians, and pretty much all of London’s inhabitants through history. Become a part of this city’s tradition.
This tour has you walking the literal path where the Romans established London’s boundary two thousand years ago. The wall that surrounded the ancient city then stood for millennium, affecting decisions and development right up to today.
You don’t have to be a history geek to get excited about the lives of people in the past. It’s so easy to get pulled into the adventures of soldiers, kings and commoners alike. During this walk you will view the fortifications that the Romans first built, and that the Normans used as their foundations. You’ll step right up to the walls that English royalty relied on for centuries to protect and defend their power base. You’ll touch the very stones that fortified the city of London throughout time. And your adventure will add you to the list of characters in the wall’s long history.
So step right up....to the wall, and to your place in the story!
Tour Producer
Amy McMahon
For travelers who want more than directions and highlights, these audio walking tours offer a deeper way of engaging with place. They invite listeners to slow down, read landscapes carefully, and explore how history, design, and human choices shape what we see.
With a background spanning archaeology, international education, curriculum design, and professional guiding, Amy approaches sites as layered texts rather than static landmarks—places shaped by intention, conflict, and change over time. Her tours focus on process as much as outcome: how memorials are conceived and built, how cities evolve over time, and how meaning is constructed through space, symbolism, and use. Rather than delivering a single authoritative narrative, she provides context and interpretive tools that encourage close observation, reflection, and independent thought.
She has spent more than two decades working across the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, including sixteen years based in Egypt as an educator and school leader. She has participated in archaeological excavations in Egypt, Israel, and the United States, supervised field schools, and translated academic research into accessible public history. As a certified tour director and licensed guide in New York City and Washington, DC, she has led adult and student groups through historically complex environments, balancing thoughtful interpretation with the realities of movement, logistics, and place.
Her VoiceMap tours are designed for curious listeners who value depth, nuance, and context—people interested not only in what they are seeing, but why it looks the way it does, and how our understanding of place continues to evolve over time.
Preview Location
Location 1
Courtyard in front of Tower of London Ticketing Office & Shops
How VoiceMap Works
Major Landmarks
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Tower of London Welcome Centre
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Tower of London
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Tower Hill
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London Wall
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Emperor Trajan Statue
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Sundial at the Tower Hill
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Roman Wall
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Crutched Friars
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Aldgate
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St Botolph without Aldgate
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Bevis Marks Synagogue
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Bishopsgate
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St Botolph-without-Bishopsgate
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All Hallows-On-The Wall
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Moorgate
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Saint Alphage Garden
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St Alphage High Walk
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Salters' Garden
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Roman Fort Gate
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Barber-Surgeons Meadow
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St. Giles Cripplegate City Wall Tower
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Roman Fort Ruins
Getting There
Route Overview
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Start location2 Tower Hill, London EC3N 4EE, UK -
Total distance2km -
Final locationA1211, Barbican, London EC2Y 5BL, UK -
Distance back to start location2km
Directions to Starting Point
Beginning in the courtyard by the Tower of London's ticket office. Public transportation is the most convenient way to arrive. The Tube station 'Tower Hill' is about a 4 min walk to the ticket office. Carparks are available nearby (50 Lower Thames being the closest) but tend to fill up quickly.
Tips
Places to stop along the way
In addition to the sites mentioned within the tour, the pathway runs quite near to the following famous sites: church of St. Dunstan in the East, Tower Hill Memorial, the Tower Hill Sundial, St. James Passage, Bevis Marks Synagog. From the final stop at the old Museum of London building, it is about an 8 min walk to the Guildhall which contains remnants of the Roman amphitheater within its lower levels. One could also attempt to view a not-so-secret but very-well-hidden Roman wall segment that is exposed within a parking garage which can be accessed underneath the Museum of London.
Best time of day
Take daylight hours into account, as some of the areas we will be viewing do not have formal lighting. Salter's Garden does get locked at dusk. Otherwise, this walk could be taken at any time during the day.
Precautions
While walking time is listed as 60 minutes, there are a few locations where spending some time to observe is recommended. This could add more minutes to the total time. Please confirm opening hours for sites as they can be seasonal.
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