Explore Cambridge at your own pace

Above the familiar rooftops and quiet courtyards of Cambridge, centuries of rivalry, revolution, and reinvention hide in plain sight. This city has always whispered its secrets to those who know where to listen.

With this self-guided audio tour, turn every corner into a portal-revealing hidden histories and overlooked legends that most visitors hurry past. Discover lost traditions, whispered scandals, and the silent battles that shaped these storied streets.

What mysterious gathering sparked fierce debate within Downing Place Church's stony walls? Which priceless artifact survived shipwreck and war before resting quietly inside the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology? Why did a once-mundane plant lab become ground zero for climate breakthroughs with global consequences?

Photo: Jean-Luc Benazet, Unsplash

Tour details

Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes, entirely at your own pace

Distance: around 3.9 km (2.4 miles)

Stops: 20 landmarks, including Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Downing Place United Reformed Church, Cambridge, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge

Audio: up to 50 minutes of narration

Starts at: Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Map data by Mapbox and OpenStreetMap contributors

How it works

Book here and a redemption code arrives by email within minutes.

Download the free AudaTours app on your phone and enter the code.

Download the tour once and the whole thing works offline.

Walk to the first stop and press play. The audio for each landmark starts automatically as you approach it, so your phone can stay in your pocket.

There is no fixed date and no start time. The date you pick at checkout does not matter, and the tour stays on your phone permanently, so you can use it whenever you next visit and walk it again as often as you like.

What is included

Professionally narrated audio that plays automatically at each stop

An interactive map showing the walking route between landmarks

Full offline access once downloaded, so you need no data or signal

Freedom to start, pause and resume whenever you like

Lifetime access - your code never expires

Where you will stop

Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Downing Place United Reformed Church, Cambridge

Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge

New Museums Site

Cambridge Medical School building

Cambridge University Museum of Zoology

University of Cambridge Computing Service

Cambridge Corn Exchange

Cambridge Arts Theatre

Cambridge

Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge

Corpus Clock

St Catharine's College, Cambridge

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Pembroke College, Cambridge

Peterhouse, Cambridge

Cambridge Judge Business School

Downing College, Cambridge

Christ's College, Cambridge

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What is AudaTours?

AudaTours turns a walk through a city into a story. Our guides bring landmarks to life with the history, the scandals and the detail you would never get from a plaque.

Immersive: real stories about the places in front of you, not a dry commentary

Offline: download once and use it with no data, anywhere

At your own pace: start, pause and resume whenever you want

Accurate: every story is built from verified historical sources and checked before release

Good to know

This is a self-guided audio tour on your own phone. There is no in-person guide.

It does not include entry to any building or site along the route.

The landmarks on the tour are not affiliated with AudaTours.

You need a smartphone with Android 7.0 or later, or iOS 16 or later.

Bring headphones and start with a charged phone.

Who it suits

Solo travellers, couples, families and small groups who would rather explore on their own schedule than follow a guide and a fixed departure time. It suits a first visit, and it suits anyone who has already seen the famous sights and wants to know what actually happened in them.

Image credits

Photos: Azeira (Wikimedia Commons, public domain); Jean-Luc Benazet, Malgorzata Bujalska (Unsplash).

Description supplied by the event organiser.