Welcome to Barnet Walks

If you live in Barnet, you’ll know that it’s an area full of surprises.
If you don’t, you’ll want to find out more about this most fascinating of London boroughs.
Either way – you’re in for a treat!

Paul also offers London walks, and walks in French: details below.

Please phone or email Paul if you are planning to come on a walk. Walks normally last about two hours. You can also contact him to organise a tailor-made walk (or talk) for your group.

All walks cost £12 - Accompanied under 12s £5 (except walks in French - see below).

We have the following walks planned for 2022 - Click on the name of each walk to find out more!

For the interim 2022 calendar up to April, please see the Walks Calendar.

N.B. Covid-19 update: It is essential that you book for walks, and that you should not turn up if you are feeling ill. The programme is of course subject, in present circumstances, to last-minute changes.

Please email Paul on to be registered on the mailing-list to receive regular monthly updates on walks during the rest of the year. And get weekly updates on Paul’s Facebook page: Barnet and London Walks.

Please note that the website will not contain updates on walks beyond April 2022, with the exception of a few provisional dates.

Walks in Barnet

• ‘The Battle of Barnet’
  Explore the famous battlefield of 1471.
• ‘Dickens in North London Birthday Tour’
  Looking at the huge number of links with North London in Dickens's life and work - and his remarkable birthday celebrations.
• ‘Royal Barnet’
  A special tour for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
• ‘Terrific Totteridge’ *NEW WALK*
  One of the loveliest of London suburbs.
• ‘Mutton Brook and Hampstead Garden Suburb (Capital Ring Westwards)’
  A stroll along the banks of a delightful stream.
• ‘Cherry Tree Wood, Highgate Wood, Queen’s Wood (Capital Ring Eastwards)’
  If you go down in the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise!
• ‘Highgate to Manor House, through Parkland Walk and Finsbury Park (Capital Ring Eastwards)’
  Two unique and totally contrasting green spaces.
• ‘Things That Go Bump in High Barnet’
  A ghostly, ghoulish walk through High Barnet and Monken Hadley. Also special Halloween walk.
• ‘Marvellous Mill Hill’
  A fascinating and surprising roam along the Ridgeway and through Mill Hill Village.
• ‘The Heart of High Barnet’
  A historical walk through High Barnet.
• ‘A Meander through Monken Hadley’
  A historical walk through beautiful, unspoilt, Georgian Monken Hadley.
• 'East Barnet Village'
  A historical walk through ancient and modern East Barnet.

Walks in London

• ‘Jack the Ripper’
  Walk in the footsteps of the Whitechapel Murderer, better known as Jack the Ripper.
• ‘Cool Camden and Street Art’
  A fascinating past of canals and railways; a pulsating present of street art, music and markets.
• ‘Canary Wharf’ *NEW WALK*
  A Tale of Two Surges.
• ‘Spitalfields and Street Art’
  An ancient enclave, now one of the most famous hubs of street art and street food in the world.
• ‘River Lea, Walthamstow Marshes and Hackney Marshes (Capital Ring Eastwards)’ *NEW WALK*
  A beautiful walk through a largely peaceful part of North-East London.
  
  All walks cost £12. Accompanied under 12s £5.
• ‘Exploring London and Beyond’
  Paul is a member of this group, which organizes fascinating walks (and Zoom talks) in areas of London and around. For more information, please contact Paul, or see: exploringlondonandbeyond.org.uk

Walks in French

(With A Nous Deux Londres!) £15 per adult. Children under 15 accompanied by their parents £6.

• ‘Jacques L'Eventreur’ (en français)
• ‘Westminster’ (en français)
• ‘La City’ (en français)
• ‘Street Art (L'Art Urbain)’ (en français)

Veuillez visiter www.anousdeuxlondres.co.uk pour plus de détails et réserver par email (de préférence) - info@anousdeuxlondres.co.uk.

We welcome enquiries about private group bookings and illustrated talks on Barnet or London.

Paul also specialises in

• Walks and talks for schools (Over 30 years’ experience as a schoolteacher).
• Walks and talks on French topics, such as the history of the French in London, the Huguenots, Spitalfields, Westminster, The City, Covent Garden and French artists and writers in London. These can be delivered in French or English.

For more information about Barnet Walks please call (020) 8440 6805 or 07506 761294
or e-mail