Turmoil, Templars & Oliver Twist London's Squalor and Splendour

Holborn sits at the center of London but rarely makes it onto standard sightseeing itineraries—despite a history that spans Saxon settlers, the Knights Templar, Charles Dickens, and the Bow Street Runners. This small-group walking tour covers the district on foot, with a guide tracing the locations that inspired Dickens' "Oliver Twist," the history of London's most notorious prisons, and a visit to the Freemasons' Hall.