Explore Sheffield at your own pace

Beneath Sheffield's grand City Hall pillars and tram-rattled High Street, secrets still swirl in the open air-where revolution, riot, and the rhythm of everyday life echo under watchful stone. This self-guided audio tour invites you into the untold heart of the city centre, leading you beyond postcard views to uncover legends and scandals lost beneath your feet.

Which bell signaled a deluge that once sent pigs scrambling down Barker's Pool? What act of rebellion reduced Victoria Hall's earliest chapel to ashes in a single night? Who refused for twenty stubborn years to let Sheffield widen its beloved High Street?

Step through buzzing squares and quiet arches, feeling history ripple beneath Yorkshire stone and concert hall domes. Each corner reveals drama, mystery, and moments that shaped Sheffield's spirit-and yours as you follow these curious footsteps.

Photo: BEN ELLIOTT, Unsplash

Tour details

Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes, entirely at your own pace

Distance: around 2.3 km (1.4 miles)

Stops: 15 landmarks, including Barker's Pool, High Street, Sheffield, Victoria Hall, Sheffield

Audio: up to 38 minutes of narration

Starts at: Barker's Pool

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

Barker's Pool

High Street, Sheffield

Victoria Hall, Sheffield

Cathedral Church of St Marie, Sheffield

Crucible Theatre

Tudor Square

Sheffield Winter Garden

Millennium Gallery

Sheaf Square

Showroom Cinema, Sheffield

National Centre for Popular Music

The Leadmill

Site Gallery

BBC Radio Sheffield

Sydney Works

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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: PookieFugglestein (Wikimedia Commons, public domain); BEN ELLIOTT, Harrison Qi (Unsplash).

Description supplied by the event organiser.