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Let’s walk! Use this map and the key End Guildhall Yard This walk will take us from Tower Hill to Guildhall Yard via some to help you find your way of the City of London’s most famous Roman landmarks including around. Remember, you Roman baths and market streets. Along the way you’ll be able to can pause the audio walk complete some activities that will deepen your understanding of at any point to take a London’s historical past. closer look at your surroundings, complete one of the activities < overleaf or to stop for a rest. London This walk will take Mithraeum about 26 minutes plus London Stone stops and covers 1.9km (111 Cannon St.) (1.2 mi). This walk is Cannon < suitable for pushchairs Street Monument and wheelchairs. Start Tower Hill Remember to check the Fish Street opening times and admission prices of any St. Dunstan in < St. Magnus the East Church venues before starting the Martyr Billingsgate Roman Garden your walk. A list of House & Baths them can be found on the final page. Key Point of Interest Look out for Bex! As well as your audio guide, Rest points she’s also here to point out additional things and Restrooms give you fun challenges to complete as you walk. ^ Fold me along the lines and read me like a book! me like me along the lines and read ^ Fold Venues on and around the walk City of London Culture Walks Remember to always check the opening times and admission prices of venues before starting your journey. Walk The Tower of London hrp.org.uk Roman Life Billingsgate Roman cityoflondon.gov.uk House and Baths London was once a Roman city called Londinium. Roman influences, artifacts and architecture can St Magnus the Martyr stmagnusmartyr.org.uk still be found in the city from modern statues to the sites of historic bathhouses... Monument themonument.info London Mithraeum londonmithraeum.com The Guildhall guildhall.cityoflondon.gov.uk Museum of London museumoflondon.org.uk Thanks for walking with us! Created by Inspiring Audio for Fun Kids, the UK’s children’s radio station. Scan the QR code or download the audio Listen on DAB Digital Radio, on the free Fun Kids mobile app, of London Museum of Londinium in 120 AD, drawing 2.0, Reconstruction BY-SA CC Image: online at FunKidsLive.com or on smart speaker – just say for this walk at “play Fun Kids” FunKidsLive.com ^ Fold me along the lines and read me like a book! me like me along the lines and read ^ Fold Billingsgate Bath House to Fish Street Hill Start here! Flip your sheet over – Did you know? Tower of London to Billingsgate Bath House the walk This was one of the most important roads in Londinium leading continues straight to the basilica and forum that were once here. Although overleaf! it doesn’t look like this today, this is what the building may once have looked like... How long did the Romans How long would it have stay in Londinium for? taken for news from Londinium for about 300 years! 300 about for Londinium Londinium to reach century AD meaning they inhabited they meaning AD century Ceaser in Rome? They arrived in AD50 and left in the 4th the in left and AD50 in arrived They Almost a month! a Almost Fish Street Hill Can you find the statue of Roman Emperor Trajan? < The statue was installed in 1980 even though Trajan himself never visited Britain! Start Tower Hill Billingsgate Roman St. Magnus House & Baths the Martyr < Visit Billingsgate Roman When you’re at When you’re at House & Baths. Fish Street Hill St. Magnus the Martyr You can venture inside Billingsgate and see these real Roman baths! Looking back to St Magnus the Martyr, can you This is the where London Bridge once began. spot its overhanging clock? What do you notice Can you find the piece of wood that once formed Only the extremely wealthy had private about it? What time does it read right now? part of the bridge? baths in their homes so this was either the home of a very rich family or the Did you know that in Roman times, Fish Street Hill If you enter the church and look up, you’ll spot public could enter for a very small fee. would have led to their version of London Bridge the organ. How many pipes can you see? They and was called Bridge Street? are in six sections. Listen to Felix in the audio walk. Is the cold Roman roads are famously very straight. Standing If you look to the north, you might be able to see bath he refers to in the frigidarium, at the bottom (or top) of the road, look down it Monument, a tall pillar built to commemorate tepidarium or caldarium? – you’ll see what we mean! the Fire of London. Can you spot it? Frididarium. London Mithraeum to Guildhall Yard Fish Street Hill to London Mithraeum London End Mithraeum Did you know? Guildhall In Roman times, coins were made by striking artwork The London Stone is a piece of old stone. Nobody quite knows Yard on a raised disk onto metal. It ‘pressed’ into the coin, what it’s for but an old legend says that if the London Stone giving each side its pattern! Almost exactly the same Your walk goes missing, the city will fall! Whilst it’s never vanished, process still is used today! continues the stone has moved several times in London’s history. overleaf! Roman coins carried the faces of their What do you think the Emperors, much like our coins have London London Stone might pictures of the Queen! Stone have been used for? < Could it be pre-historic, r own Rom a druid altar, or part of a you an ign co Roman archway? es in D ! ________________________________ __________________________________ __________________________________ ___________________________________ ____________________________________ ___________________________________ __________________________________ Fish Street < Hill < London Mithraeum Continue from Continue from here! here – this is Can you find all of these words? where the walk left Palace Thames Soldier off! Trajan Forum Britain You’ve reached the end of your walk. Emperor Bath Caldarium Thanks for walking with us! Road Walk Mithraeum Rome Wharf City of London Walks are produced by Inspiring Audio with support from Bridge Stone the City of London Corporation. For more information on what to do see Londinium Gladiator or do in the City, visit the City Information Centre by St. Paul’s Cathedral •Eagle Wall or go to visitthecity.co.uk Mithras Guildhall Coins Merchant.