“Tom is the OG lost rivers guru, it was a rare treat to have a guided walk!” Walbrook walk attendee.
“Erudite, amusing, audible.” Lost Aldwych walk attendee.
“It was really excellent. Welcoming and informative – it helped us look at an area which we have walked through hundreds of times in a different way – the closest thing to time travel we’re likely to experience!” Walbrook walk attendee
“The two hours of the walk passed remarkably quickly, sped by Tom Bolton’s encyclopaedic knowledge of Camden.” SAVE Britain’s Heritage newsletter
I lead walks tracing London’s lost rivers and vanished neighbourhoods. Do contact me if you would like to arrange a walk.
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Recent highlights…
Lost Aldwych for SAVE / Open House, September 2024
Lost Walbrook for SAVE / London Festival of Architecture, June 2024
UCL Spatial Justice MSc, King’s Cross walk, May 2024
Chasing the Tyburn for SAVE Britain’s Heritage, September 2023
UCL Spatial Justice MSc, King’s Cross walk, May 2023
North Eastern University lost King’s Cross walk, May 2022
Walbrook walk – Martin Wedderburn Transport Planning 10th anniversary, May 2022
North Eastern University lost King’s Cross walk, May 2022
UCL Urban Lab walk, May 2022
City of Lost Hospitals – London audio walk for London Month of the Dead
Wet and Dry Land Walk – for the London Festival of Architecture
Walbrook Walk – for SAVE Britain’s Heritage
Neckinger Walk – for London National Park City Week
London Bridge railway walk – for the London Festival of Architecture
Camden Town lost rivers – with the Museum of Walking
Online walks
The Royal Geographical Society’s ‘Discovering Britain’ site has two of my walks in online versions:
Lost East End ties together the lost neighbourhoods of Wellclose, Ratcliff and Limehouse Chinatown in an East End epic. It’s a glimpse of the Vanished City.
St.Pancras Trail goes behind the sheen of redeveloped King’s Cross to discover Old St. Pancras and some of the least visited places in central London.
Discovering Britain also includes my account of the view from Horsleydown Stairs, under Tower Bridge.
Past highlights
2017 walks
Camden Town – the launch of Camden Town: Dreams of Another London
Revealing the Westbourne – with Museum of Walking
Revealing the Walbrook – with the Museum of Walking
Ratcliff and Limehouse Lost – with the Museum of Walking
2016 walks
Horselydown Lost – with the Museum of Walking
The Lost Tyburn – with the Museum of Walking
Old St. Pancras – Discovering Britain
Forgotten Camden – Camden People’s Theatre
2015 walks
Lost Aldwych – Museum of Walking
Norton Folgate Lost – Museum of Walking
Old St. Pancras – Museum of Walking
The Lost Fleet – Totally Thames
The Lost Tyburn – Totally Thames
2014 walks
Walk the River Fleet – Cities Methodologies, UCL Urban Lab
River Peck & River Tyburn, Totally Thames
Walks along the Rivers Fleet, Neckinger, Tyburn, Walbrook
2013 walks
Rivers Effra, Neckinger and Walbrook – Mayor’s Thames Festival
2012 walks
River Tyburn walk for Kerry Andrew’s Lost River Songs, Handel House Museum
Revealing the River Neckinger – Talking Walking
City of London Rivers Walk – Whitechapel Gallery
2011 walks
Lost Rivers of Hampstead, Camden Players
Release the Walbrook, Rethinking Cities
2010 walks
The Lost River Fleet, Atlas Obscura
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