Why go: Leading between Birdcage Walk and Old Queen Street is the small passageway of Cockpit Steps, named after its rather sinister connection to the age old pastime of cock fighting. The steps themselves are actually the last remaining parts of the old Royal Cockpit, a venue built in the 18th century for the upper classes to watch and wager on cock fights.
Location: Westminster Map
Address: Old Queen Street
Why go: One of the city’s only medieval churches having survived the great fire on London in 1666. Founded in 1210 and apparently attended by William Shakespeare when he lived in the area.
Location: City of London Map
Address: Bishopsgate, London EC3A 6AT
Why go: The Tyburn Tree stone is a small, circular commemorative plaque embedded in a traffic island at the junction of Edgware Road, Bayswater Road, and Oxford Street near Marble Arch in London. It marks the approximate site of the infamous "Tyburn Tree," a three-legged wooden gallows where over 50,000 people were executed between 1196 and 1783
Address: Traffic Island at junction between Bayswater Road, Edgeware Road and Marble Arch