This is not a route for viewing St Paul’s across the river. It is one lap of the district that made what London ate and wore for three hundred years.
Recommended route: London’s Larder Half-Day Walk
Order · Stop · Suggested time
0 · (Friday) Bermondsey Square antiques market · dawn–morning, 40–60 min
1 · London Bridge station → Leathermarket Street (the Exchange roundels) · 30–40 min
2 · Bermondsey Street (White Cube, Fashion and Textile Museum) · 40–60 min
3 · Maltby Street Market (the Ropewalk) · 30–50 min
4 · Beer Mile arches (two or three breweries) · 60–90 min
5 · Shad Thames (gangways, toward Jacob’s Island) · 30–40 min
6 · Tower Bridge southern end (closing view) · 15–20 min
Access and timing
Start at London Bridge station; from Tower Bridge at the end, walk to Tower Hill station or back to London Bridge Fact. Saturday — when Maltby and the taprooms all open — is the right day, and Friday offers the entirely different dawn-antiques version Fact. On Sundays Maltby opens but some taprooms close Estimate. Whichever day, walk remembering Episode 9’s question — who owns the arches — because what this district has kept for three hundred years is not its buildings but the act of making itself.