Free audio walk in London
Westminster
- 58 min
- 1.9 km
- 11 stops
- Free
Starts at The Royal Porch
About this walk
Feast your eyes!!!
This short but iconic walk takes you straight through the political heart of London: Westminster. Along the way, you’ll pass famous landmarks like the Palace of Westminster, Downing Street, and the historic chapel of St. Mary Undercroft. Every step echoes with decisions that shaped a nation.
This route starts and ends at different locations.
The stops
Walk them in order; each story plays when you reach its pin.
- 1Stop 1
The Start: Emmeline Pankhurst
The woman standing in bronze just steps from Parliament spent her life fighting to enter a building that refused to hear her voice.
- 2Stop 2
Richard I "The Lionheart" Statue, Old Palace Yard
England's most famous medieval king ruled the country for ten years — and spent almost none of that time actually here.
Read the story - 3Stop 3
Westminster Hall
The building you're standing in has witnessed nine centuries of democracy, betrayal, and royal spectacle — and its roof alone is considered the greatest work of art the Middle Ages ever produced.
Read the story - 4Stop 4
Westminster Abbey
Every English monarch for nearly a thousand years has been crowned in the same building, and you're standing right in front of it.
Read the story - 5Stop 5
Parliament Square
The ground beneath your feet was the birthplace of an invention that now shapes every city on earth.
Read the story - 6Stop 6
Palace of Westminster & Big Ben
The clock tower you're standing in front of has two cracked bells, a bag of pennies keeping perfect time, and a fire caused by burning tax records to thank for its very existence.
Read the story - 7Stop 7
Big Ben and the Clock Tower, Palace of Westminster
The most famous bell in the world only exists because someone made a catastrophic mistake with a pile of medieval wooden sticks.
Read the story - 8Stop 8
The Cenotaph
Every year, one of the world's most powerful acts of remembrance takes place right here, around a monument that is deliberately, meaningfully empty.
Read the story - 9Stop 9
10 Downing Street
Behind the most famous black door in the world, centuries of decisions that shaped a nation were made in rooms most people will never see.
Read the story - 10Stop 10
Banqueting House
The building you're standing beside once witnessed a king walk out of its window to his death — and its ceiling still celebrates his father's glory.
Read the story - 11Stop 11
The Palace of Whitehall
Beneath your feet and stretching in every direction around you lies the ghost of a palace so vast it made Versailles look modest.
Read the story
Ready when you are
Walk Westminster with ROODS.
11 stops through London, about 58 minutes. Open ROODS in your browser, walk to the first pin and the story plays.
- Stories on a map, with narrated audio
- Walk at your own pace, stop where you like
- Runs in your browser. An app is optional.
