Explore the sites of the American Revolution in Britain through curated walking and driving tours, each following a narrative theme.
Trace the arc of American grievances through the halls of power — from the Parliamentary debates that inflamed a crisis to the streets where Londoners rallied for the American cause.
9 stops 4.4 km ~3.1 hours (incl. visits)
Follow Benjamin Franklin's footsteps through the city where he spent nearly two decades — from his Craven Street home to the coffeehouses, chapels, and chambers where he charmed, schemed, and was ultimately humiliated into revolution.
8 stops 6.9 km ~3.4 hours (incl. visits)
Walk the streets of the City of London where colonial commerce funded an empire and financed a war — from the Custom House where duties sparked resistance, through the coffee houses where merchants traded American tobacco, to the corner where Black Loyalists discovered that British promises of freedom had a price.
8 stops 1.8 km ~2.4 hours (incl. visits)
Discover the diverse voices of Revolutionary-era London — a Black British writer, a Mohawk diplomat, an African abolitionist, American artists and diplomats, and a defeated British general. Their stories reveal the tangled human connections between Britain and her rebellious colonies.
8 stops 6.8 km ~3.4 hours (incl. visits)
Walk the streets of St Helier where the only Revolutionary War ground combat on British soil took place on 6 January 1781. From the museum that tells the story to the square where musket balls struck the gilded statue of George II, and the island fortress that refused to surrender.
3 stops 2.9 km ~1.3 hours (incl. visits)
From Edinburgh's debating halls to Highland garrison forts, trace Scotland's complex relationship with the American Revolution — a land that sent both soldiers to suppress the rebellion and signers of the Declaration of Independence.
5 days · 12 stops 350.9 km ~8.7 hours (incl. visits)
Tour the dockyards, forts, and harbours of Southeast England where the Royal Navy built its warships, held American prisoners, and prepared for invasion threats from France and Spain.
3 days · 10 stops 242.2 km ~7.3 hours (incl. visits)
Explore the Southwest — from Bristol's Atlantic trading wharves to Plymouth's prisoner-of-war camps and Bath's fashionable drawing rooms where opinion on America was fiercely divided.
3 days · 12 stops 472.5 km ~11.8 hours (incl. visits)
From the Yorkshire coast where John Paul Jones fought the Royal Navy to the Cumbrian ports he raided, trace the Revolution's impact across Northern England — a region that supplied soldiers, debated liberty, and felt the war on its own shores.
4 days · 11 stops 675.1 km ~12.2 hours (incl. visits)
Discover how the American Revolution galvanised Ireland — inspiring Volunteer militias, stoking demands for parliamentary independence, and connecting Irish radicals to the cause of liberty from Dublin's parliament to Belfast's Presbyterian meeting houses.
4 days · 15 stops 6.0 km ~5.3 hours (incl. visits)
From the Norfolk birthplace of Thomas Paine to the Suffolk estate of the general who surrendered at Yorktown, East Anglia shaped both the revolutionary argument and the British war effort — a region of radical dissenters, anxious merchants, and powerful landowners whose decisions changed the world.
2 days · 6 stops 51.9 km ~2.9 hours (incl. visits)
Trace the Revolution's impact through England's industrial heartland — from the Birmingham workshops that armed both sides to the Ironbridge furnaces that forged a new age, and the Enlightenment circles where sympathy for America ran deep.
3 days · 10 stops 53.9 km ~4.3 hours (incl. visits)
From the radical philosophers of the South Wales valleys to the copper mines that sheathed the Royal Navy and the ironworks that cast its cannon, Wales played a vital if often overlooked role in the American Revolution — providing both the materials of war and some of the ideas behind it.
2 days · 7 stops 164.4 km ~4.6 hours (incl. visits)
From Sheffield's blade-smiths to Manchester's textile merchants and Newcastle's radical thinkers, trace the Revolution's impact on England's industrial heartland — the factories that armed the war, the traders who lost their markets, and the radicals who saw America's cause as their own.
3 days · 9 stops 43.8 km ~4.1 hours (incl. visits)
A short drive through the Northamptonshire countryside links the two most important Washington family sites in England: the Tudor manor Lawrence Washington built after purchasing the estate from Henry VIII, and the medieval church where his descendants lie buried beside the Spencer family of Althorp. Together they tell the story of how a prosperous wool merchant's line declined over a century, until a younger son emigrated to Virginia and founded the dynasty that produced America's first president.
2 stops 20.0 km ~1.2 hours (incl. visits)