The Whitechapel Ripper Walk
London, United Kingdom
Explore the East End, where beautiful streets and bleak history stand side by side. This walk traces Whitechapel and Spitalfields through waves of migration, from Huguenot silk weavers to Jewish immigrants and later Bengali families, and the crowded world of labour, lodging, and survival they shaped. It also follows the 1888 murders that made Jack the Ripper famous, while focusing on the victims and the fear, gossip, and xenophobia that spread through the neighbourhood.
The stops
- 01 Old Spitalfields Market
Spitalfields Market received its royal charter in 1682, making it one of London's oldest licensed markets.
- 02 The Ten Bells
The Ten Bells public house at the corner of Commercial Street and Fournier Street has been licensed premises since at least the eighteenth century, though the current Victorian pub frontage dates to the 1850s.
- 03 Fournier Street
Fournier Street is one of the best-preserved Georgian streetscapes in London, its early eighteenth-century terrace houses built by and for prosperous Huguenot silk merchants and master weavers.
- 04 29 Hanbury Street
29 Hanbury Street was the site of the second canonical Jack the Ripper murder.
- 05 Brick Lane
Brick Lane takes its name from the medieval brick kilns that once operated along its length.
- 06 Fieldgate Street Great Synagogue
Fieldgate Street Great Synagogue,, is a former Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 41 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, in the Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London, England, in the United Kingdom.
- 07 Former Whitechapel Bell Foundry
The Whitechapel Bell Foundry, established at 32-34 Whitechapel Road in 1570, was the oldest manufacturing company in Britain until its closure in 2017.
- 08 Whitechapel
The heart of the Ripper murders. Walking Whitechapel allows you to experience the dense urban fabric and historical atmosphere of the East End during the Victorian era.
- 09 Jack the Ripper Museum
The Jack the Ripper Museum at 12 Cable Street opened in 2015 amid considerable controversy after its original planning application described it as a museum of East End women's history.
The narration at every stop is in the app — this is the map of where it takes you, with a line on each stop.
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