Explore Leeds at your own pace

A 15-stop walking tour of the working day of Leeds - from Michael Marks's 1884 penny stall in Kirkgate Market, through the 1711 White Cloth Hall and the ghost of the 1758 Coloured Cloth Hall under City Square, to John Barran's 1858 band-knife and the Hispano-Moorish tailoring palace it paid for, the Holbeck mills where Salamanca rolled out in 1812 and flax was spun under a grass-and-sheep roof, and finally to Leeds Bridge where the everyday traffic was filmed in October 1888 and a working morning became the oldest cinema in Britain.

Photo: Paul Rigel, Unsplash

Tour details

Duration: 1 hour 46 minutes, entirely at your own pace

Distance: around 5.2 km (3.2 miles)

Stops: 14 landmarks, including City Square, Leeds, St Pauls House, Leeds, Temple Works

Audio: up to 35 minutes of narration

Starts at: City Square, Leeds

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

City Square, Leeds

St Pauls House, Leeds

Temple Works

Marshall's Mill

Round Foundry

The Tetley, Hunslet Road, Leeds

Leeds Bridge

3rd White Cloth Hall, Crown Street, Leeds

1st White Cloth Hall, Kirkgate, Leeds

Leeds Corn Exchange

Kirkgate Market

Leeds City Varieties

Briggate

Mill Hill Chapel

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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: Paul Rigel (Unsplash); AudaTours.

Description supplied by the event organiser.