Explore Preston at your own pace

A city of secrets hides beneath Preston's bustling streets where stone chapels, glowing shopfronts, and soaring columns reveal tales few ever hear. This self-guided audio tour invites you to roam at your own pace and uncover the hidden stories behind Maudlands' treasured landmarks-places most visitors walk past without a second thought.

Who risked everything within St Wilfrid's walls during years of religious strife? What strange midnight scenes once played out beneath St George's glass rotunda? Which scandal rattled through the great arched porch of Central Methodist Church, sending whispers down Lune Street?

Travel between shadows and sunlight as each step sweeps you into forgotten dramas: revolution, reinvention, quiet heroism, and curious local lore. Let Preston transform with every corner you turn.

Photo: Igor Sporynin, Unsplash

Tour details

Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes, entirely at your own pace

Distance: around 4.4 km (2.8 miles)

Stops: 15 landmarks, including St George's Shopping Centre, St Wilfrid's Church, Preston, Preston Central Methodist Church

Audio: up to 38 minutes of narration

Starts at: St George's Shopping Centre

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

St George's Shopping Centre

St Wilfrid's Church, Preston

Preston Central Methodist Church

Church of St George the Martyr, Preston

Preston Cenotaph

Covered Market, Preston

Harris Museum

Preston Minster

St Paul's Church, Preston, Lancashire

Syro-Malabar Cathedral of St Alphonsa, Preston

City Church, Preston

St Peter's Church, Preston, Lancashire

Maudland Bridge railway station

Church of St Walburge, Preston

St Mark's Church, Preston

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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: Igor Sporynin, Michael Starkie (Unsplash); AudaTours.

Description supplied by the event organiser.