Find your way today. Handy maps show you different types of food and drink outlets and places to visit.
Learn about the area's past.
I took a photo of this so that I could study it later. If you are reading this map on a phone or laptop you can make it larger. I scanned it with the help of a magnifying glass. You can see how the railway linked various stations and landmarks.
Southwark is south of the Thames. Blackfriars was named after friars wearing black clothes.
Hawksmoor Steak House sells a book about the steak restaurants, their experiments with cooking, and their recipes.
The luxury chocolate shop Le Chocolat offered us a free chocolate for each person. We also picked up a history of their chocolate shops in Paris and London, England.
The architecture is impressively grand, varied, stirking, with art deco parts, high yet somehow cosy, and at Christmas crowded. It is closed on Mondays according to Wiki but was open on pre-Christmas Monday when we went there.
Wiki handily tells you about its use as a film location. We heard announcements about beware of pickpockets. We took care not to have wallets in open backk pockets of jeans. Not to walk on the edge of pavements looking at phones, because thieves on motor bikes or ebikes could zoom up from behind you and grab your phone. All went well.
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