Canal Guides
Aileen, Carla, Charlie, David, Flora, John, Lulu, Mike G., Naomi, Richard and Roger all have many years’ experience of the Inland Waterways and have explored them extensively by narrowboat (and, in Roger’s case, canoe). They’re all active members of the Inland Waterways Association, which works in partnership with us to provide the towpath walks in the London Walks programme.
All of Canal Guides's Walks
The Regent's Canal - King's Cross, Granary Square, St. Pancras
Sunday, 20 April 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"unseen, untrodden, unexplored, unknown London beckons"
The Regent's Canal – River Tyburn to Little Venice
Sunday, 04 May 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"we step into a different world here, a different world bouquet’d with incidental delights – 'The Upside Down House', for example..."
The Secrets of the Northern Queen Elizabeth Olympics Park
Saturday, 10 May 2025 @ 2.30 pm
"unique in Britain. A double radial gate lock, it was designed to cope with floods and tides..."
Four Hundred Years of the New River
Sunday, 18 May 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
It's not new and it's not a river...
The Regent's Canal - Little Venice to Camden Town
Sunday, 25 May 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
Life's better by water...
The Regent's Canal – King's Cross to Hitchcock's Hackney
Sunday, 01 June 2025 @ 2.30 pm
out of the chrysalis of old 19th-century industrial London into the buzz of a new London
The Regent's Canal – Mile End to Limehouse
Sunday, 22 June 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
"from the Age of Canals to cutting edge, 21-st century London"
The Regent's Canal: King's Cross-Granary Square-Camden
Sunday, 06 July 2025 @ 2.30 pm (Click here for more dates)
The London of a couple of centuries ago. A London of tunnels and bridges and narrowboats and locks.
The Regent's Canal – Islington to Kingsland Road
Sunday, 20 July 2025 @ 2.30 pm
"ankle power, water power, horsepower, steam engine power, electric power, internal combustion engine power – the walk, er, runs the gamut"
Royal Victoria Dock to East India Dock Towpath Walk
Sunday, 21 September 2025 @ 2.30 pm
A new towpath walk created by the London Walks team of Regent's Canal guides (in conjunction with the IWA – Inland Waterways Association)
The Grand Union Canal – Kensal Green to Little Venice
Saturday, 27 September 2025 @ 2.30 pm
"the Cinderella of London's canal network"
Limehouse - Thames - Docklands
Sunday, 19 October 2025 @ 2.30 pm
"part gentrified, part solidly working class"
Other walks in Canal Guides's repertoire.
They run occasionally as 'Specials' but can also be booked privately.
Grand Surrey Canal, Rotherhithe, Mayflower, Surrey Water, Greenland Dock
"We've got an old canal here. And a dock. And memories. And traces..."
The Grand Union Canal – Little Venice & Paddington Green
"a secret corner of London closed to the public for 200 years"
Grand Surrey Canal, Royal Navy Victualling Yard, Greenland Dock
A get away from it all walk – down on that towpath it's 200 years ago.
The Regent's Canal – Mile End to Haggerston
"Welcome to an English rainforest of different types of trees and plants. Then a POW! of a contrast..."
River Wandle & Wandsworth Canal
"there's no lovelier piece of lowland scenery in South England..."
The Regent's Canal – Mile End to Limehouse
"from the Age of Canals to cutting edge, 21-st century London"
Grosvenor Canal & Battersea Power Station
Combines the hidden byways of London's most secret canal and the Thames' mightiest cathedral.
The Regent's Canal - King's Cross, Granary Square, St. Pancras
"unseen, untrodden, unexplored, unknown London beckons"
The Regent's Canal: King's Cross-Granary Square-Camden
The London of a couple of centuries ago. A London of tunnels and bridges and narrowboats and locks.