Andy Taylor, a Clerkenwell and Islington guide, leads this two-hour walk through Newington Green, a corner of North-east London that has been home to remarkable figures and events over the centuries. Once a place where people went to avoid notice, from a Tudor king visiting his mistresses to religious and political dissenters hiding their views, the area has a story worth following.
Along the way you'll hear about the non-conformists who shaped it, from a pioneering feminist thinker to the birthplace of British punk rock and Madness's Nutty Sound. The route also looks for traces of Tudor engineering, a lost place of worship, a striking row of houses and former film and music studios, and touches on 18th-century philosophers and scientists linked to the founding of the United States.
