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 £9 - Accompanied under 12s £4 (except walks in French - see below).

We have the following walks planned for 2018 - Click on the name of each walk to find out more!

For the interim 2018 timetable for January and February, click on these dots ......

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 February 2018.

• 'The Battle of Barnet’
  Explore the famous battlefield of 1471.
• ‘Things That Go Bump in High Barnet’
  A ghostly, ghoulish walk through High Barnet and Monken Hadley.
• ‘Dickens in North London’
  Hear about the many Dickens connections with Barnet, Finchley, Hendon, Highgate, Hampstead and north London.
• ‘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.
• 'Hampstead Garden Suburb'
  A Dame's dream, an earthly paradise.
• 'East Barnet Village'
  A historical walk through ancient and modern East Barnet.
• ‘Hooray for Hendon’
  A thousand glorious years, from the Domesday Book to Hendon Aerodrome and beyond.

Walks in London

• ‘Jack the Ripper’
  Walk in the footsteps of the Whitechapel Murderer, better known as Jack the Ripper.
• ‘Soho’
  From sin to cinema: the tumultuous story of this most cosmopolitan of London areas.
• ‘Spitalfields’
  French, German, Jewish and Bengali refuges have flocked to this fascinating area over the course of several centuries.
• ‘Covent Garden’
  From high society, to highwaymen, to hipsters.
• ‘Trollope Walks’
  Conducted for the Trollope Society, and open to the public. We look at Anthony Trollope's life, and scenes from his London novels.

Walks in French

(With A Nous Deux Londres!) £12 per adult. Children under 15 accompanied by their parents £6.

• ‘Jacques L'Eventreur’ (en français)
• ‘Westminster’ (en français)
• ‘La City’ (en français)
• ‘Covent Garden’ (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 text 07506 761294
or e-mail