Free Camden self-guided walking tour

A Camden walking tour on Wanderwalk is a self-guided audio walk called Camden Black History. The free Camden Black History walk links 8 stories from the West African Students Union hostel at 62 Camden Road to Aggrey House at 47 Doughty Street. You can then stop off at the Lady Ottoline.

Best for: Camden’s Black history, free and at your own pace. A guided Camden Town tour is better for the market, music or street art.

You do not need a pass or subscription. Camden Black History is part of Black History season and is always free.

You can also hear all 8 stories from anywhere in the app.

The walk covers 4,196 metres, about 2.6 miles. Allow about 67 minutes. That is 56 minutes of walking and 11 minutes of audio.

You start at West African Students Union hostel, 62 Camden Road. You end at Aggrey House, 47 Doughty Street. You can then stop off at the Lady Ottoline. After the start you pass Ruth First and Joe Slovo home, 13 Lyme Street, then Anti-Apartheid Movement headquarters, 13 Mandela Street, then Unity Theatre site, Unity Mews, Chalton Street, then George Padmore and Dorothy Pizer, 22 Cranleigh Street, then Asquith Xavier and the Euston colour bar, then Claudia Jones carnival, Camden Town Hall.

Each story usually starts within about 40 metres of the mapped place. You follow the 8 stops in the order on this page.