AudaTours Exeter Audio Tour: Everyday Histories
Exeter Historic Guildhall, Exeter, Devon, EX1 1HS
This self-guided audio walk starts at Exeter Guildhall and follows the route in the app through the city centre, the Cathedral Close, Fore Street, the Quay and underground passages. There are 14 stops in all, with about 1 hour of audio and around 2 hours total including walking.
Wear headphones and go at your own pace, pausing to look up at the places the voices are describing: the Guildhall, Rougemont Castle, the Roman wall at Northernhay, St Nicholas Priory, Tucker’s Hall, the Custom House and Quay, Mol’s Coffee House, Exeter Cathedral, the Devon and Exeter Institution, Bedford Street and the High Street. Exeter’s version focuses on the people usually left out of the plaques: wool-workers and fullers, canal-diggers, customs men, cathedral masons, tunnel-keepers, beadles and the ARP wardens who worked through the Baedeker raids. The audio links these trades and emergency roles to the streets and buildings they shaped, so the walk brings out the city’s labour, regulation, craft and wartime resilience as much as its better-known monuments.
Timings
Available anytime
Location & directions
Exeter Historic Guildhall, Exeter, Devon, EX1 1HS
- Directions:
- Starts at Exeter Guildhall, High Street, visits 14 stops, and finishes at Exeter High Street, Guildhall Shopping Centre.
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/exeter/p-4129-working-exeter
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)
