AudaTours Harrogate Audio Tour: Taking the Waters
Tewit Well, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 2RR
Follow a self-guided audio walk from Tewit Well through the streets, parkland and spa buildings of Harrogate, listening as you go and pausing at 11 stops including the Royal Pump Room, the Royal Baths, the Old Swan, the Crescent, Valley Gardens and the Old Magnesia Well Pump Room.
The route takes about 1 hour of audio and around 2 hours in total including walking.
It begins with the town’s first spring and traces the people who made the spa business work: the dippers and bath attendants who served the waters, the bath-chair pushers who moved visitors uphill, the pastry cooks and Swiss confectioners who catered for them, and the engineers and benefactors who helped shape the town’s spa landscape. Harrogate’s version of the story is unusual for the range of working lives it brings into view. You hear about the dipper elected Queen of the Wells, the Swiss pastry cook who arrived at King’s Cross unsure of his destination, the iron-forging benefactor who became one of the town’s great names, the first park superintendent who shaped Valley Gardens, and the banjo player who spotted a famous novelist sitting under a borrowed name.
Timings
Available anytime
Location & directions
Tewit Well, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 2RR
- Directions:
- Starts at Tewit Well, The Stray, Harrogate, visits 11 stops, and finishes at Valley Gardens, Harrogate.
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/harrogate/p-5387-taking-the-waters
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)
