Explore Exeter at your own pace

Exeter's fame rests on its cathedral, its Roman walls and its role as the capital of the south-west. This tour belongs to the people those monuments required: the wool-workers whose trade made the city the third richest in England, the engineer who cut Britain's first pound-lock canal, the plasterer who decorated the Custom House ceiling, the masons who carved the Cathedral's longest medieval vault, the tunnel-diggers who plumbed the city's water supply through the rock, the Guildhall beadles who kept order for eight centuries, and the wardens who pulled people from the rubble when the Baedeker bombers came. They built the city; it rarely put their names on the plaques.

Photo: Mylo Kaye, Unsplash

Tour details

Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes, entirely at your own pace

Distance: around 3.6 km (2.2 miles)

Stops: 14 landmarks, including Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Northernhay Gardens Roman Wall, Exeter, Rougemont Castle, Exeter

Audio: up to 35 minutes of narration

Starts at: Royal Albert Memorial Museum

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

Royal Albert Memorial Museum

Northernhay Gardens Roman Wall, Exeter

Rougemont Castle, Exeter

Exeter Underground Passages, Princesshay

Bedford Street, Exeter

Devon and Exeter Institution, 7 Cathedral Close

Exeter Cathedral

Exeter High Street, Guildhall Shopping Centre

St Nicholas Priory, Mint Lane, Exeter

Tucker's Hall, 140 Fore Street, Exeter

Old Exe Bridge

West Gate Site, Fore Street, Exeter

Quay House Visitor Centre, The Quay, Exeter

Exeter Guildhall, High Street

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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: Nick Hawkes, Mylo Kaye, Spencer Eccles_Jones (Unsplash).

Description supplied by the event organiser.