A walk along the Roman Wall of London

Name: A walk along the Roman Wall of London
Start: 2026-01-24T11:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-01-24T13:00:00+00:00
Location: Meet at the exit barriers at Tower Hill tube station

Schedule

Sat Jan 24 2026 at 11:00 am to 01:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Meet at the exit barriers at Tower Hill tube station | London, EN

Guided tour of the remains of the London’s Roman Wall and the London Wall Museum
About this Event

Image: 'London Roman Wall - surviving section by Tower Hill gardens' courtesy of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

About this walk

The Romans built a wall round Roman Londinium, and a surprising amount survives today. But why did they build this wall and why did it survive?

We will explore these and many other questions and view the best sections of the Wall, as well as the small London Wall Museum, putting the Wall in the context of Roman Britain and the wider Roman Empire over the centuries.

The tour involves a small amount of walking on good surfaces and we will end in the café of the free London Wall Museum for lunch.People may wish to visit the nearby church of All Hallows afterwards, which has a good free mini- museum of local Roman archaeology.

This tour will be of general interest to anyone with a love of history and archaeology, but it will be especially helpful if you are studying A340 Roman Empire or A229 Exploring the Classical World at the Open University.

Where to meet

Please meet your tutor, Cathy Mercer, 10.45am at the exit of Tower Hill Underground Station for a prompt 11am start.

About LRAC, the Arts and Humanities Society

LRAC, the Arts and Humanities Society, is a non profit making club run by a voluntary group of past and present Open University students who arrange study days, lectures, workshops, museum and gallery visits.

We are not a formal part of the Open University but we are affiliated to the Open University Students Association:

We do not receive any funding from the Open University or other institutions. The price of your ticket goes towards the cost of putting on this and future events to support and enrich student learning.