Durham Audio Tour: Hands That Built Durham

Highlights
GPS-triggered audio plays automatically as you approach each landmark - explore Durham at your own pace, with no group and no fixed start time.
11 stops across Durham, roughly 60 minutes of narration, walked in whatever order and at whatever speed suits you.
Works fully offline once downloaded, so you need no data or signal while you walk.
Your code never expires and there is no fixed date - buy now and use it whenever you next visit.

Explore Durham at your own pace
Durham's skyline belongs to the cathedral and the castle. The rest of the city belongs to a different story - the Norman masons who signed their stones with a chisel mark, the boy choristers educated in exchange for their voices, the Bishop's kitchen staff who fed five hundred in a hall built around hierarchy, the medieval bridge-builders who raised Framwellgate and Elvet for the pilgrims and the traders, the market stallholders who gathered under Bishop Pudsey's charter, the 150,000 Durham miners who pooled their wages to build their own parliament on Redhills Lane, and the secretary William Crawford who made the Durham Miners' Association the largest miners' union in Britain. These are the people whose labour made the peninsula possible - and whose names rarely appear on any plaque.

Photo: Jeffrey Zhang, Unsplash

Tour details
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes, entirely at your own pace
Distance: around 4.1 km (2.5 miles)
Stops: 11 landmarks, including Durham Indoor Market, Durham Market Place, Elvet Bridge
Audio: up to 28 minutes of narration
Starts at: Durham Indoor Market

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
Durham Indoor Market
Durham Market Place
Elvet Bridge
St Oswald's Church, Durham
Prebends Bridge Durham
Durham Castle
Palace Green Durham
Galilee Chapel Durham Cathedral
Framwellgate Bridge Durham
Durham railway station
Redhills Durham Miners Hall

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: Jeffrey Zhang, Jonny Gios, Mihaela Claudia Puscas, Michael Coltman, Toa Heftiba (Unsplash); AudaTours.