Prize winning guide and author Rachel Kolsky returns to lead an exploration south of Hampstead tube discovering through plaques and stunning homes a rich and eclectic mix of residents. Amongst architects and artists, poets and photographers, musicians and medics there is also found the 1930s Artists' Refugee Committee and the most famous frog in the world.

Ian Fagelson (Top 10 guide on Tripadvisor) takes us from the Tower of London to the Mansion House. We will meet rebels from Boadicea, who burned down Roman London, to the Extinction Rebellion demonstrators who disrupted the Chancellor’s Mansion House speech in 2019. In between, we will explore the streets and alleys of the City and meet a cast of extraordinary characters including beheaded Tudor queens, Irish bombers, a lynched Archbishop of Canterbury, a slave trader, a Scottish noble who literally laughed his head off in 1747 and many others.

Hugely experienced London guide and Proms regular, Marilyn Greene leads on her local turf from East Finchley to Muswell Hill, along a woodland route taking in parts of Cherry Tree and Highgate Woods, as well as part of the old rail route along the Parkland walk. En route we will be exploring local history through buildings and architecture including art deco icons at either end.

More talk than walk, Frank Hawkins, arboriculturist, horticulturalist and Hampstead Garden Suburb’s Green Estate Manager follows up last year’s walk with an in-depth look at Central Square’s trees. A tree surgeon will be demonstrating management techniques, so why not bring a deck chair?

Proms favourite, Alison Barraclough (President, Geology Association), returns with an exploration of parts of the western Heath. Looking at both art and geology we will see how geology influenced the landscapes painted by Constable and is still visible today, including the recently reinstated Branch Hill pond. This walk will include paths in the Heath so sturdy footwear is recommended.

A one-way walk tracing the buried River Fleet from Highgate to Kentish Town City Farm in Gospel Oak. Led by Lester Hillman, lecturer and accredited guide, we will pass along hidden farm lanes, the remodelled Heath ponds and discover famous people and colourful dramas along the way.

Much has changed since our visit in 2022 when BXT was just beginning. The first residents have arrived, the station is open and the park is maturing. Kate Webster leads a return visit, which will look at key features of the emerging new town including the art trail and features relating to the wider story of the locality and even connections to the Suburb.

By the end of the 19th century, Victorian London had expanded as far north as Hampstead, beyond which lay the cottages, fields and wilds of Middlesex. It was here that from 1907 the Hampstead Garden Suburb was built around what was to become the Heath Extension. Join Calum Orr, Architectural Adviser to The Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust, on a walk from the hamlet of North End to the Suburb, as we try to gather a picture of the still-visible landscape at this decisive moment.

David Davidson, Architectural Adviser at The Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust, leads a new walk on less-trodden territory, looking at the how the area north and east of Central Square developed after the hiatus of World War I.

Acclaimed Blue Badge Guide and author, Mark King will guide us in the footsteps of Thomas Cromwell in the City of London. Whilst Cromwell’s palatial home no longer exists, an exploration of the medieval streetpattern around Austin Friars will enable us to discover echoes of Thomas Cromwell, the merchant, lawyer and statesman in the area where he and key contacts lived as he rose to power. Stands alone but is also an ideal follow-up for fans of Wolf Hall.

Blue Badge Guide, Alison Seabrook Moore will lead us through this area of contrast and change where the City’s ‘Square Mile’ of skyscrapers and finance meets Spitalfields and the East End. Historically a ‘melting pot’ where successive waves of migrants have settled and left their mark, Alison will peel back the layers to share their history through buildings and stories, as well as showing change in progress in gentrification and street art of this vibrant area.

Beginning in Golders Green and proceeding to the Heath Extension, Kate Webster, Chair of Proms and Trustee of HGS Virtual Museum will introduce a mix of characters from the early and later 20th centuries who lived in the area. Along the way, we will meet a Nobel Peace Prize winner, politicians, activists, suffragettes and others who changed society for the better.