Sometimes it's faster to walk

The London Underground is famous for it's beautiful, sylistic map, which incidentally is utterly disconnected from real geography. I'm currently reading Bill Bryson's "Notes From a Small Island" where he notes some examples: Chancery Lane to Farringdon by tube requires two changes and 4 stations. Mansion House to Bank: change once, 6 stops. For someone having never visited, believing the Tube map might waste a lot of time, so here are a couple of good alternatives for newbies to London geography to help evaluate when it will be faster to walk:

• Owen Massey has loads of tube maps including a long to a very cool geographically corrected tube map
• A tube map with walk lines for physical distances less than 500m (by rodcorp)
• A history of the London tube map can be found here

A lot of non-tube underground facilities exist as well, check out "Exploring Underground London" (also seen previously in the sideblog) and there are several disused stations, some that can be seen in passing

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