Following the Napoleonic Wars a huge growth in population put a premium on building as London outgrew itself and began slowly to embrace surrounding towns and villages.

In 1820 the Regent’s Canal arrived in Islington and soon afterwards the railways would subsume even the canals. Slowly estates were developed in small parcels, and this walk explores some of the most diverse, attractive and imaginatively scaled housing of the first half of the nineteenth century.

The walk itself takes about 60 minutes, with additional time for questions, answers and debate over tea or coffee, or perhaps ale. Dates and times are by mutual arrangement.

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