St Giles: In Search of a Slum

A two-hour history walk through St Giles examines its crowded courts and alleys, reform campaigns and the area’s surviving historic streets and buildings.

This two-hour walk explores the history of St Giles, from the early modern settlement and its overcrowded courts, alleys and open sewers to later reform, through surviving historic streets, churches and buildings. The route is described as lying between Bloomsbury and Covent Garden; it meets and finishes at Tottenham Court Road tube, outside Exit 4 on the east side of Charing Cross Road.