"London Hornpipe", also known as "The Navvie", "Navvie on the Line", or "New London Reel" is a Canadian and American hornpipe in G Major (Cole, Page, Ryan) or A Major (Messer). The parts are played AABB. It is a widely known hornpipe thought to be of British origin. The similar British tunes called "The Navvie" or "Navvie on the Line" are credited to Tyneside composer James Hill as is "The Bee's Wing Hornpipe" also in this collection.
North American tunes in the family (particularly related in the first strain) are "Montreal Hornpipe", "Reel de Sherbrooke", "Reel de Montréal" and "Old Blind Sow She Stole the Middlins." "New London" in Ira Ford's Traditional Music in America (1940) is note-for-note the same tune as "London Hornpipe".
It was printed in Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes (1940), Kerr's Merry Melodies, vol. 1 (1880), Messer's Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes (1980), Page's Ralph Page Book of Contras (1969) and Ryan's Mammoth Collection (1883).