Explore Gloucester at your own pace

A city crowned by soaring spires and shadowed secrets, Gloucester's heart beats just beneath your feet-if you know where to listen. This self-guided audio tour lets you uncover the drama hiding in plain sight as you stroll through Kingsholm and beyond, from grand cathedrals to reborn city squares.

What made a nine-year-old boy's coronation at Gloucester Cathedral echo through centuries of royal intrigue? Why did bishops plot, vanish, and occasionally ride their bicycles straight into modern headlines? Could a lost fountain or an old cinema in Kings Square be the key to forgotten city scandals?

Follow winding paths between pillars, markets, and marbled halls. Hear whispers of rebellion, spectral monks, and days when crowds watched history unfold right here. Experience Gloucester as never before-up close, vivid, unpredictable.

Photo: Philafrenzy, Wikimedia Commons, CC0

Tour details

Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes, entirely at your own pace

Distance: around 3.0 km (1.9 miles)

Stops: 15 landmarks, including Gloucester Cathedral, Diocese of Gloucester, Kings Square, Gloucester

Audio: up to 38 minutes of narration

Starts at: Gloucester Cathedral

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

Gloucester Cathedral

Diocese of Gloucester

Kings Square, Gloucester

Kings Walk Shopping Centre

St Michael's Tower, Gloucester

St Mary de Crypt Church, Gloucester

Gloucester Castle

Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum

Blackfriars, Gloucester

Ladybellegate Street

Glevum

St Nicholas Church, Gloucester

St Mary de Lode Church, Gloucester

St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester

Kingsholm Stadium

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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: Philafrenzy (Wikimedia Commons, public domain); Praveen Goonathilake (Unsplash); AudaTours.

Description supplied by the event organiser.