Touring Taylor Swift’s London: a guide to the city through her lyrics, from pubs to parks – and their connections with her exes
- Taylor Swift still loves London, that much remains true despite her break-ups with ex-partners Joe Alwyn, Matty Healy and Harry Styles, who are all from England
- Read on for a guide to the city through her songs, from the pub where ‘we’re watching rugby with his best friends’ to where she loved drinking in the afternoon
Taylor Swift may sing “So long, London” on her new album, The Tortured Poets Department, but she will be returning this June and August to play eight dates at the city’s Wembley Stadium as her Eras Tour continues.
Their relationship ended last year but, thanks to the 2019 song, Swift’s favourite haunts in the city have been preserved in perpetuity.
Although you would have to be madly in love with someone to “enjoy walking Camden Market in the afternoon”, Swift evidently ventured further.
If you want to take in Taylor Swift’s London, here is a guide, based on “London Boy” and other lyrics by the American singer. But do not attempt to do this in one day because, as Swift would tell critics, “You’d never make it”.
“Took me back to Highgate, met all of his best mates”
