The Great Plague & Black Death Tour of London

Here is the starting point

St Giles-in-the-Fields Church

It's hard to imagine 700 years ago where this church is was was once in a tiny village in the country. Things didn't stay cute forever with all manner of sad events here before becoming infamous for being where the first cases of the plague were detected in the spring of 1665.

Charterhouse Square

Visit the spot of the largest ever discovered plague pit containing tens of thousands of victims who died from the Black Death .

The Charterhouse

We will come face to face with an extraordinary skeleton of a young man who died from the Black Death around 1348.

WIlliam Wallace Memorial

See where William Wallace was executed not too many years before the Black Death.

Peasants' Revolt Plaque

London was ravaged by things other than the Great Plague. Here we will see where the pivotal Peasants Revolt came to a head.

Smithfield Martyrs' Memorial

Golden Boy of Pye Corner

This quaint memorial commemorates where the Great Fire of London was extinguished. Learn the story of its design and see some of the actual houses that lay witness to the Great Plague and Great Fire of London.... what a time to be alive!

Aldgate

Aldgate Square

Daniel Defore writes memorably about the plague pit that lies beneath. There is plenty of other plague related bits around here and if that's to enough, one of Jack The Rippers victims was killed a few yards away.

Aldgate Pump

St Olave's Church

This beautiful old church is the resting place of the erstwhile Samuel Pepys and his wife. His diary is perhaps the best contemporary evidence of what life was like in London during the Great Plague and Great Fire of London.

Seething Lane Garden

Tower Hill Memorial

Visit the infamous Tower Hill where so many well known figures from history met their grisly end.

Pudding Lane

The Monument to the Great Fire of London

We finish at The Monument to the Great Fire of London.