Camden’s three lives

Best for music fans, first-timers who want more than the market stalls, and anyone who likes a canal

Camden is not one market. It is six, plus a canal, plus the pub where Blur and Oasis argued and the one where Amy Winehouse drank. We start at the station, walk through the markets as the stalls open, follow the Regent’s Canal past the narrowboats and finish on Primrose Hill with the whole city in front of you. One thread holds it together: Camden had three lives, work, noise and market.

What is included

• A guide with you from the station to the top of Primrose Hill
• The markets, in the order that makes sense, as the stalls open
• The canal towpath, the narrowboats and the Pirate Castle
• Ten minutes free at the Stables Market for coffee and browsing
• The stories behind the Good Mixer, the Hawley Arms and the Amy Winehouse statue
• Photographs of you at the lock and on the hill, sent the same evening

Where we go

1. 01Camden Town station and the Electric Ballroom
2. 02Inverness Street and the Good Mixer
3. 03Camden Lock and the Lock Keeper’s Cottage
4. 04Hawley Wharf and the Hawley Arms
5. 05Umbrella Alley, the Stables and the Amy Winehouse statue
6. 06The Regent’s Canal towpath and the Pirate Castle
7. 07The Feng Shang Princess and the climb to Primrose Hill

Rather do it on your own? Camden Town to Primrose Hill: markets, music and the canal on foot is the free guide to it, or get the days timed for your dates.