Secret Belgravia: Clubs, Crescents & Hidden Taverns

The stops

1. 01
   Knightsbridge

   The area shows how grand planned development flowed westward into diplomatic and elite residential corridors. Embassy houses, luxury hotels, and private clubs all draw on the same geography of privilege.

2. 02
   The Wilton Arms

   The Wilton Arms is a Grade II listed public house located in Kinnerton Street, Belgravia, London and built in 1825–26.

3. 03
   Grenadier

   One of Westminster's best-known hidden pubs, tucked away on a mews rather than a main street. Its reputation links drinking culture, military memory, and the discreet hospitality world that overlapped with club life.

4. 04
   The Caledonian Club

   An archetypal gentlemen's club in Belgravia, embodying the traditions of exclusivity, ritual, and private sociability that shaped Westminster’s elite clubland.

5. 05
   Wilton Crescent

   A refined Belgravia crescent that closes the tour by showing the planned domestic elegance that supported embassies, clubs, and discreet city living.

6. 06
   Plumbers Arms, Belgravia

   The Plumbers Arms is a Grade II listed public house at 14 Lower Belgrave Street, Belgravia, London SW1.

7. 07
   Eaton Square

   A key square in the Belgravia estate, long associated with diplomats, aristocrats, and the kind of privacy that encouraged club culture. Its garden square form is a textbook expression of planned London development.

8. 08
   Star Tavern

   A celebrated hidden pub in Belgravia, long associated with MPs, journalists, and the sort of discreet social mixing that overlapped with gentlemen's club life.

The narration at every stop is in the app — this is the map of where it takes you, with a line on each stop.