{"id":7340,"date":"2022-04-07T16:03:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T15:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/?p=7340"},"modified":"2026-05-29T18:05:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:05:28","slug":"diverse-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2022\/diverse-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Diverse London"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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[May 2026 Update: The author has recently created an audio walking guide, Diverse Spitalfields, in conjunction with VoiceMap. It’s based on a walk extracted from this book. Simply download the app from Apple’s App Store<\/a> or Google Play<\/a>, and search for “Diverse Spitalfields”.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fifth book in a series by author\/cartographer David Fathers<\/a>, Diverse London takes forward the four previous<\/a> books (three with a rivers<\/a> theme and one covering the city’s gruesome history<\/a>) by describing and illustrating 20 guided walks through London’s current and historically multicultural districts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diverse London continues the excellent format where the walk are illustrated with bespoke colour maps, which include the route lines themselves, landmarks, key buildings and tube\/train stations. Each walk is also liberally illustrated with relevant colour sketches and graphics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 20 walks are split into 6 themes, each with two or more walks – Huguenot, Jewish, Chinese, Black, Irish and South Asian. The walks focus on the city centre and inner city – traditionally the immigrant settling point of London like many other cities, although some walks do venture well beyond this – to Limehouse in the east and to Southall in the west. The West End makes four appearances, such is its cultural evolution through the centuries. Each walk is between 1 and 5 miles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Attractively presented in a compact format ideal for carrying on a walk, and coming in at just over 100 pages, Diverse London is published by Conway, a Bloomsbury imprint, and is on sale from Amazon<\/a> and all good bookstores from 14 April. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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