Stoke-on-Trent Audio Tour: Fired Earth

Highlights
GPS-triggered audio plays automatically as you approach each landmark - explore Stoke-on-Trent at your own pace, with no group and no fixed start
8 stops across Stoke-on-Trent, 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 Stoke-on-Trent at your own pace
Stoke proper - a square kilometre between the Minster, the Spode works, the station, and the canal - was the engine room of the British ceramics industry. This tour is not about the great potters' families. It is about the throwers and paintresses, the kiln-firers and flint-grinders, the navvies who cut the canal and the boatmen who legged through Harecastle in the dark, the railwaymen who carried the finished ware south and the hotel staff who fed and housed them. It is about Potter's Rot, the workers' cottages Josiah Spode II built at minimum standard in Penkhull Square, the named casualties on the North Staffordshire Railway's war memorial, and the memorial school that Herbert Minton's workers' skills paid for.

Photo: Leonardo Zorzi, Unsplash

Tour details
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes, entirely at your own pace
Distance: around 3.3 km (2.0 miles)
Stops: 8 landmarks, including Stoke-on-Trent railway station, Winton Square, North Stafford Hotel, Winton Square, Stoke-on-Trent, Stoke Town Hall, Glebe Street, Stoke-on-Trent
Audio: up to 20 minutes of narration
Starts at: Stoke-on-Trent railway station, Winton Square

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
Stoke-on-Trent railway station, Winton Square
North Stafford Hotel, Winton Square, Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke Town Hall, Glebe Street, Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke Minster, Stoke-on-Trent
Trent and Mersey Canal towpath, Stoke-on-Trent
Spode Museum Trust, Church Street, Stoke-on-Trent
Herbert Minton Building, London Road, Stoke-on-Trent
Penkhull Square, Stoke-on-Trent

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: Leonardo Zorzi, Dan Stephens, Nirmal Rajendharkumar, Sarah Mallick, Ali Johnson (Unsplash); Daderot (Wikimedia Commons, public domain); AudaTours.