SECRET CITY GARDENS
It's back! The second outing of a NEW Secret City Gardens walk
Saturday 11 MAY; 1115 to depart 1130 sharp
Meet at Caffe Nero outside St Paul's Tube station (Cathedral exit)
It's time to celebrate Spring! The City of London is the most ancient part of the capital and amid its vistas of concrete and glass lie dozens of secret green havens and hidden spaces, with some fascinating stories dating back hundreds of years. The Secret City Gardens walk explores the history of gardens that have bloomed in blitzed or ruined churches and graveyards, and as part of more modern developments. (For previous garden walkers, this tour will revisit some of the West City gardens but also some new discoveries, please feel free to email me for more details.)
Among the gardens we will visit:
- the C11th cloister garden of a priory hospital and birthplace of the St John Ambulance NEW
- a Black Death plague pit turned pocket park NEW
- a herbal 'physic' garden amid Roman ruins NEW
- a vista over the Barbican gardens NEW
- a reflection pool framing St Paul's
- a beautiful garden created out of a blitzed church - once the final resting place of Plantagenet Queens and the body of one Tudor heretic, minus her head...
Duration: around 110-120 minutes; 1.7 miles; some stairs involved. As ever, we will end up in a pub for lunch/drink for those who wish to carry on chatting! (Not included in price.)
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