Fleet Street would be incomplete without a mention of Sweeney Todd, the demon barber. Sweeney Todd was the legendary murdering barber who dispatched his customers by slitting their throats as he shaved them. Their bodies, dropped into a basement via a chute, were then dismembered by Todd's accomplice Mrs Lovett who supposedly used them to fill her meat pies in nearby Bell Yard!

During your London tour, you will get the opportunity to see many places of worship ranging from magnificent cathedrals to intimate churches. St Clement Dane's is one the of the 51 churches which Christopher Wren designed during the rebuilding of the City of London following the Great Fire of 1666.  It is now known as Royal Air Force church as it commemorates RAF personnel killed serving their country.
The Main Chapel of the church features ornate carved cherubs and a floor featuring hundreds of Air Force badges from around the world. The interior walls of the church contain books of remembrance containing the names of RAF airmen who died in the conflict. 
 

Despite that fact that the newspaper industry has long since moved to places such as Canary Wharf and Wapping, Fleet Street is still associated with the newspaper industry.  Fleet Street, named after the river Fleet which now flows underneath the city, was at the heart of news gathering and reporting for over three hundred years. Today it mainly consists of law offices or merchant banks. 

The Royal Courts of Justice is the perhaps the best-known Civil Courts in the land and many famous trials have taken place here. George Street’s 1882 Neo-Gothic building has a magnificent interior with many of the old Victorian wood panelled court rooms still in use.

Recent high profile cases heard here have included Hollywood star Michael Douglas and his wife Catherine Zeta Jones who sued a magazine for publishing their wedding photos without permission.

One of the oldest Pubs in London ‘the Cheese' was a favourite haunt of both Samuel Johnson and Charles Dickens. Inside there are bars and dining rooms, reached through staircases and corridors steeped in history. As you might expect of a 17th century pub set in Fleet Street this has a literary history and many famous writers have drunk here including Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain and William Butler Yeats. Standard hearty traditional pub fare is on offer in the dining rooms.

The magnificent dome of St Pauls Cathedral dominates the skyline around Fleet street.