Visit Canonbury Places

Welcome to Visit Canonbury Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Canonbury

  

Canonbury Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Canonbury

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Canonbury geography / climate

Canonbury is traditionally an area of Islington, and has never been an administrative unit in its own right. It has never had formally defined boundaries, but approximates to the area between Essex Road, Upper Street and Cross Street and either side of St Paul’s Road.

You can visit Canonbury places with Walkfo Canonbury to hear history at Canonbury’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Canonbury has 1543 places to visit in our interactive Canonbury map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Canonbury, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Canonbury places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Canonbury & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 1543 audio facts unique to Canonbury places in an interactive Canonbury map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Canonbury Places Map
1543 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo Canonbury tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Canonbury

  

Best Canonbury places to visit

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Canonbury has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Canonbury’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Canonbury’s information audio spots:

Statue of Trajan, Tower Hill The statue of Trajan is a bronze sculpture depicting the Roman Emperor Trajan. It is located in front of a section of the London Wall built by Romans, at Tower Hill in London.

Knollys Rose Ceremony The Knollys Rose Ceremony is an annual event led by the Company of Watermen and Lightermen . The ceremony dates to 1381 and is held each year in June . A single red rose is snipped from the garden in Seething Lane, placed on an altar cushion from All Hallows-by-the-Tower .

Seething Lane Seething Lane is named after an Old English expression meaning “full of chaff” Samuel Pepys lived there and is buried in St Olave’s Church at the junction with Hart Street .

St Andrew Hubbard St Andrew Hubbard was a parish church in the Billingsgate ward of the City of London . It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666, and not rebuilt .

Fishmongers’ Hall Fishmongers’ Hall is a Grade II* listed building adjacent to London Bridge . It is the headquarters of the Worshipful Company of Fishmakers . The Hall is situated in Bridge Ward .

Coldharbour, City of London Coldharbour, also spelled Cold Harborough, Cold Herbergh, and Cold Inn, were two London neighbouring estates . One of the estates was used by the Dukes of Exeter and briefly as a college of heralds . It was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 .

East India Arms The East India Arms is located on Fenchurch Street in the City of London . It is next to the place where the East India Company had its headquarters .

Newgate Newgate was one of the historic seven gates of the London Wall around the City of London . Newgate lay on the west side of the wall and the road issuing from it headed over the River Fleet to Middlesex and western England . Parts of the gate buildings were used as a gaol, which developed into Newgate Prison .

Statue of Queen Anne, St Paul’s Churchyard A statue of Queen Anne is installed in the forecourt outside the west front of St Paul’s Cathedral . It became a Grade II listed building in 1972 .

King Edward Street, London King Edward Street runs from Newgate Street to Little Britain in the north . It is joined by Greyfriars Passage in the west and Angel Street in the east . Postman’s Park is on its east side where Bull and Mouth Street once lay .

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