London James Bond Audio Walking Tour
An unofficial Bond walk from the National Gallery past the Admiralty, the Old War Office and Westminster Bridge, upriver to the MI6 building.
- 8 stops and 18 minutes of stories, told as you reach each place
- The intro and stop 1 are free in the app: try before you buy
- Download before you go; the audio plays without signal (the street map needs a connection)
- Walking with friends? Pick 1 to 10 seats; everyone hears each stop on their own phone, at the same moment
30 seconds of the real narration
Plays in the free Walk With Me app on iPhone and Android.
Where the story happens
Each stop, the moment of the story it belongs to, and what is there today.
| Stop | In the story | Today |
|---|---|---|
| 1. National Gallery | Skyfall (2012): Bond meets the young new Q on a bench before Turner's The Fighting Temeraire. | Free to enter; the painting has changed rooms since filming, so check where it hangs. |
| 2. Admiralty Arch & Old Admiralty | Spectre (2015): a car chase starts at the top of The Mall, and a doorway by the arch plays a safe house exit. | Government offices, seen from outside; Fleming worked in Room 39 here from 1939. |
| 3. The Old War Office | The facade in five films, Octopussy to Spectre; Spectre closes with a DB5 driving away along Whitehall. | Raffles London at The OWO since 2023, with bars and restaurants open to the public. |
| 4. Westminster station | Skyfall: Bond's chase after Silva runs up the stairs at Parliament Street and Great George Street. | A busy working station; the train crash later in the chase was filmed elsewhere. |
| 5. Westminster Bridge | Spectre's finale: a fleeing helicopter comes down on the bridge, and Bond confronts Blofeld. | One of London's busiest sidewalks, with Parliament beside you and the London Eye across the river. |
| 6. Lambeth Bridge | Spectre: the speedboat and helicopter chase, shot on a closed bridge on the night of 17 May 2015. | A road bridge with Lambeth Palace at one end and the riverside path you just walked. |
| 7. Vauxhall Bridge | Skyfall: from her car on this bridge, M watches an explosion hit the MI6 building. | An ordinary road bridge, with the real MI6 building in full view. |
| 8. MI6 Building, Vauxhall Cross | On screen since GoldenEye: attacked in The World Is Not Enough, blown up in Skyfall, back again in Spectre. | SIS headquarters since 1994; a working building, so keep moving and don't film its security. |
About this tour
Bond's London isn't spread out. Fleming's wartime desk, the building from five Bond films, the Skyfall chase, the Spectre finale and the real MI6 all sit along one easy line from Trafalgar Square and along the river. On foot, you feel how close they are, and how the films used real, everyday places: a gallery bench, a tube stairway, a bridge you can cross on a lunch break. Walking it also lets you rewind a chase and stand about where M stood. If you'd like company along the way, open the Walk With Me live map to find other people out walking London.
The route
4 km in walking order from National Gallery to MI6 Building, Vauxhall Cross. Stop 1 is free in the app.
- 1National GalleryThe National Gallery on Trafalgar Square, a bench in front of a Turner, and why that old warship suits Bond so well.Free in the app
- 2Admiralty Arch & Old AdmiraltyThe arch at the top of The Mall and the red-brick Old Admiralty behind it, where an admiral's new assistant went to war.
- 3The Old War OfficeThe huge stone War Office on Whitehall, a facade from five Bond films, and a rooftop scene people place on the wrong building.
- 4Westminster stationThe Tube station under Portcullis House, the stairs from a Skyfall chase, and a secret about the crash that follows.
- 5Westminster BridgeThe west end of Westminster Bridge, London's best-known view, where Spectre's finale comes down and Bond makes an unexpected choice.
- 6Lambeth BridgeLambeth Bridge, between Millbank and Lambeth Palace, and the night in 2015 when this stretch of river became a film set.
- 7Vauxhall BridgeVauxhall Bridge, facing a green glass building on the south bank, and the spot where M watches her service come under attack.
- 8MI6 Building, Vauxhall CrossThe terraced headquarters at Vauxhall Cross, its long run of screen roles, and a September night when the attack was real.
Nothing else to pay
Toilets and water on the way
6 public toilets (3 free) and 2 drinking fountains within 150 m of the route.
| Stop | Nearest toilet | Nearest water |
|---|---|---|
| 1. National Gallery | 78 m | 35 m |
| 2. Admiralty Arch & Old Admiralty | 161 m | 215 m |
| 3. The Old War Office | 329 m, free | 305 m |
| 4. Westminster station | 71 m | 481 m |
| 5. Westminster Bridge | 187 m | 286 m |
| 6. Lambeth Bridge | 499 m, free | 141 m |
| 7. Vauxhall Bridge | 282 m | 413 m |
| 8. MI6 Building, Vauxhall Cross | 133 m, free | 242 m |
The full map is in our London guide. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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Photos: Fred Romero / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.