Victorian Christmas Group Tour

Imagine the streets of London covered in snow and lit by vintage street lamps, carol singers singing traditional carols and the delicious aroma of roasted chestnuts in the air. This is the Christmas celebrated by Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol. Talk to us about a custom-designed Victorian Christmas tour for your groups, full of nostalgia, holiday cheer and fun festive traditions.

Tour Highlights

A Victorian Christmas in London:

The Great Christmas Feast: step back in time at Charles Dickens’ house and enjoy a legendary evening of enchanting storytelling, feasting and festive cocktails.
Dickensian Christmas walking tours of London: discover the locations that inspired the famous author.
Witness Christmas through the ages with the Winter Past exhibition at the Museum of the Home. See rooms decorated for Christmas, including a Victorian Christmas, with period decorations and festive customs.
Enjoy A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic, complete with mince pies, music and festive cheer. This unique production immerses audiences in a wonderful adaptation of the much-loved Christmas classic, one of London’s longest-running festive theatrical traditions.
See Charles Dickens’ house decorated for Christmas at the Charles Dickens Museum.
Learn how Queen Victoria celebrated Christmas at Kensington Palace.
Experience a Victorian Christmas at Windsor Castle, where Queen Victoria celebrated the festive season with her young children. Highlights include Victorian cookery demonstrations and Christmas carols beneath the magnificent Christmas tree in the State Apartments.
Christmas at the Tower of London: follow a trail exploring Christmas traditions throughout the Tower and discover how the Victorians helped shape the way we celebrate Christmas today.
Traditional Advent carol services in churches and cathedrals such as St Paul's, Westminster Abbey or St Martin-in-the-Fields.
Victorian Christmas workshops including bauble or candle making and mince pie and gingerbread baking.
Christmas shopping at Covent Garden (Victorian London's main flower, fruit and vegetable market) or historic department stores such as Fortnum & Mason.

Rochester Dickensian Christmas Festival:

Street performances and entertainers.
Christmas carol concerts at the cathedral, bell ringers, brass bands and town criers.
Candlelit evening parades with guaranteed snowfall.
Parades featuring actors dressed as characters from Dickens’ novels.
Typical Victorian characters, including chimney sweeps, lamplighters, street urchins, police officers and aristocrats.
Traditional Christmas Market with stalls offering gifts, decorations, handmade crafts and souvenirs.
Festive treats including mince pies, roasted chestnuts, fresh donuts, Christmas dinner wraps, mulled wine and hot chocolate.

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