UNDISCOVERED LONDON
Chislehurst and Dulwich

Adults: £15.65  Seniors £14.10
Availability: All year, Wednesday to Sunday
Coach miles: 10
Walking: Moderate
Wheelchair access: Cobbled surface in caves

This is a tour which concentrates on two areas of London which are ideal for groups who have visited many of the better-known places. Our day starts in Chislehurst, sometimes described as ‘the Hampstead of South London’ where our guide will meet you for coffee at 10.30a.m. You'll visit the impressive Chislehurst Caves with their twenty miles of mysterious caverns and passages, hewn out of the chalk over a period of 4,000 years. Druids, Romans, Anglo-Saxons and the Cavaliers all used them — and they were the largest air raid shelter outside central London in the 1940s. Then it's off

to Dulwich for lunch which is followed by a guided walk. You will see the famous Dulwich College, founded by an actor who made his fortune thanks to bears, bulls and dogs — our guide will explain. There is a pub (yes, another one!) where Charles Dickens drank and the only road in London where there is still a working toll gate. We also visit Dulwich Picture Gallery. There are about 300 Old Master paintings here making it one of the largest private collections in the country, housed in what is Britain's oldest purpose-built art gallery. The day is rounded off by tea and you will be setting off for home by 4.45p.m.

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