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into dark and dingy Clink Street and, if dubbed ‘the Cheesegrater’, going up
you’re not careful, the Clink Prison opposite Lloyds, which will reach 737ft INFORMATION SITES
Museum, where Bankside lowlife was when completed.
once incarcerated. Then walk a few yards What’s so fascinating about the City is
The Caravan Club runs two sites in south London, at Abbey Wood
and dream of freedom aboard the replica that amid all these modern buildings you and Crystal Palace. The first is a 35-minute train ride from the centre
of the Golden Hinde, the vessel that took can still find pockets of London past.
of the capital, while Crystal Palace has a direct bus connection to
Francis Drake on his world voyage of Behind Lloyds is the delightful Victorian
Piccadilly Circus. Full details can be found on the Club’s website,
discovery. Leadenhall Market, while hidden away in
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Just around the corner, crammed little alleyways are numerous traditional
between railway and river, is Southwark pubs that have changed little in the last
Cathedral, built as the medieval priory hundred years. Then there are all those
church, St Mary Overie, and a cathedral small Wren churches, created by the
for only little more than a century. architect of St Paul’s, their spires now
Beneath nearby railway arches, the stalls dwarfed by city monoliths.
of Borough Market make an interesting If you find all that too claustrophobic,
diversion if you would like fresh produce London has some of the world’s finest parks
and delicacies to take back to your – Hyde Park, St James’s Park and Green
caravan. Park, providing some of the better known
At London Bridge, close to which the lungs of the capital. Nearer to the Caravan
giant ‘Shard of Glass’ building will go up Club’s two south London sites is
over the next few years, you can cross the Greenwich Park, with its famous
Thames to take a closer look at the capital’s observatory, wonderful views along the
powerhouse, the City, and all its remarkable Thames and the treasures of the National
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