AudaTours Durham Audio Tour: Hands That Built Durham

Follow the route in the app and listen as you walk through Durham at your own pace. This self-guided tour has 11 stops, with about 1 hour of audio and around 2 hours in total including the walk between places. It begins at Framwellgate Bridge and carries you through Durham Castle, the Galilee Chapel and Palace Green, past Durham Cathedral, the Indoor Market and Market Place, over Prebends Bridge and Elvet Bridge, to St Oswald’s Church and Redhills Durham Miners Hall. Each stop adds a different working layer to the city: stonecutters’ marks in the cathedral fabric, choristers educated for their voices, kitchen staff and servants keeping the Bishop’s household running, bridge-builders serving pilgrims and traders, market stallholders under ancient charter, and miners who pooled their wages to build their own parliament at Redhills. This Durham version is shaped by the people usually left out of the story — the masons, miners, workers, traders and choir boys whose labour made the city possible.

Timings

Available anytime

Location & directions

Framwellgate Bridge, Durham, County Durham, DH1 3RW

Directions:

Starts at Framwellgate Bridge Durham, visits 11 stops, and finishes at Redhills Durham Miners Hall.

Booking information

Pre-booking requirement:

Book on day

Booking conditions:

Visit the booking link and click the "Get Tour" button to receive a redemption code. Follow the link to download the AudaTours app, enter your redemption code, and you're ready to go.

Booking email:

[email protected]

Booking website:

https://audatours.com/tour/united-kingdom/durham/p-13138-hands-that-built-durham

Accessibility details

This is an outdoor, self-guided audio walking tour. The route follows public streets and pavements and does not include access to the interior of any of the sites — they are to be admired from the outside. Please wear comfortable shoes and dress for the weather.

Additional information

You can start the tour whenever suits you during the festival and pause, resume or revisit it at any point — the route plays at your own pace from your phone. Once redeemed, the tour stays in your AudaTours library so you can come back to it any time. Headphones (or one earbud if walking with a companion) are recommended, and the tour works best in daylight hours.

Estimated duration:

2 hour(s)

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