The Baker Street Sherlock Holmes Walk

London, United Kingdom

500 tickets 3.2 km · about 1 hr 40 mins · 10 stops · Premium walk How Walking Tickets work

Literature

Explore Marylebone through the world of Sherlock Holmes, the fictional detective who became a real London landmark. Created by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, Holmes used observation and logic to solve cases in a city transformed by science, railways, and modern policing. This walk links Holmes to places like the Sherlock Holmes Statue, 215 Baker Street, 221b Baker Street, The Langham Hotel, and Great Portland Street Post Office.

The stops

01
Sherlock Holmes Statue
This bronze Sherlock Holmes Statue was unveiled in 1999 near Baker Street station, giving physical form to the character Conan Doyle introduced in A Study in Scarlet in 1887.
02
215 Baker Street (Abbey House)
215 Baker Street, or Abbey House, became famous because the Abbey National Building Society occupied it and for years employed staff to answer letters addressed to Sherlock Holmes at 221b Baker Street.
03
The Sherlock Holmes Museum, 221b Baker Street
The Sherlock Holmes Museum opened in 1990 in a Georgian townhouse dating from 1815, furnished to evoke the rooms described at 221b Baker Street.
04
The Regent's Park
Regent's Park was laid out in the early nineteenth century to plans by John Nash for the Prince Regent, later George the Fourth, and provides the grand urban stage behind many Holmes adventures.
05
St Marylebone Parish Church
St Marylebone Parish Church, rebuilt in 1817 by Thomas Hardwick, anchors the district that gave Marylebone its identity before Holmes moved into literary Baker Street.
06
Marylebone High Street
Marylebone High Street shows the everyday world around Holmes: shops, provision merchants, medical men, servants on errands, and well-dressed passersby who might become clients.
07
2 Upper Wimpole Street
Upper Wimpole Street sits in historic medical Marylebone and evokes the professional world from which Conan Doyle came and from which Watson is drawn.
08
The Wallace Collection
The Wallace Collection, in Hertford House and opened as a public museum in 1900, evokes the cultivated interiors and aristocratic possessions that often texture Holmes stories.
09
The Langham Hotel
The Langham Hotel opened in 1865 and is prized in Sherlockian history because Conan Doyle is widely associated with meeting Oscar Wilde here in 1889 for a dinner arranged by Joseph Marshall Stoddart of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine.
10
Great Portland Street Post Office
A post office is a fitting final stop because Holmes stories constantly depend on letters, telegrams, visiting cards, newspaper advertisements, and official notices.