REFRESHMENTS: There is no shortage of places of all kinds throughout the hike, but two to look out for in particular are Talbot Court, about a third of the way round (sandwich pub, restaurant and bar/caf) and the Court of the priest at the end (sandwich bar and restaurant cheap).
Sights: Institutions of the city, as the Mansion House, the Bank of England and Lloyds; 61 meters (202-foot) high monument to the great fire of 1666 and the 42 Tower slightly taller; the halls business preparations, Drapers ' Carpenters, grocery stores, Mercers ' and skin; numerous churches of the city, including the least changed of Sir Christopher Wren; and the oldest synagogue in Britain (Spanish and English)
Note: this tour must be done from Monday to Friday during business hours. It is not only during the day that the city is at its most vibrant and exciting, the majority is also where the largest number of seats-including some of the passages that are an integral part of the walk-is open. (b) This is a long walk to a place so dense as the city, then you may prefer to do it in two goes. A natural break halfway in Fenchurch Street is indicated in the text.
A stop on the route is the colony of Virginia.
In the midst of the garden stands a statue of Captain John Smith, a town and one of the founders of the colony of Virginia in 1606. Turn right between the statue and the Church (a City Corporation explains in detail why the statue is here) and then left into the alley behind the Church. Turn right at bow Lane-a narrow pedestrian-only streets thronged with Office workers at lunchtime and then almost immediately left through the arch in court and, without doubt, taking its name from a well that was already here. Follow this to the right in the appropriate court and turn left. Cross Street Queen-Guildhall left Southwark Bridge to the right-in Pancras Lane. St. Pancras Church here was until the great fire of 1666. Its churchyard is now a small, slightly scruffy Garden, often used as a bicycle park. A little further on is the site of another church destroyed in the great fire-St Benet Sherehog. Your name (a ' shere hog is a RAM castrated after its first shearing) you can say that this church was located in the heart of the District of wool from the medieval city.
At the end of Pancras Lane, cross street Queen Victoria-Royal Exchange for the remains of the left, exposed the Roman temple of Mithras right-in Bucklersbury. Walk over here (crossing the river Walbrook in the process) to Mansion House and the Church of St Stephen Walbrook. Chad Varah, founder of the Samaritans, has been Rector of the Church. The Lord Mayor is one of the guards.
Go to the alley between the two buildings and follow it around to the left past the churchyard of Saint Stephen. When you know the road, turn right and then at the crossroads (St Mary Woolnoth left) go right back at St Swithin's Lane. On the right is the new Court, mercantile Bank of Rothschild since 1804. Then comes a modern office building. Company founders had their hall here until they moved to Smithfield in 1987. Near the end, turn right through the parking lot at Salters Hall Court, home of the Salters company until it was bombed in 1941. The Salters had come here 300 years previously when they bought Oxford House, hence the expression "Court of Oxford" in the garden wall. The garden is the old churchyard, London stone of St Swithin, destroyed during the bombing even as the hall.
