Bath Highlights Audio Tour: Georgian Splendour

Explore Bath at your own pace

Beneath the honeyed stone of Bath lie secrets sharper than any blade. While crowds chase postcard views, the city vibrates with the echoes of political coups, scandalous romances, and scientific breakthroughs that rewrote the stars.

Unlock these buried narratives with this self-guided audio tour. Navigate the winding streets of Bathwick to Queen Square and beyond, uncovering the hidden tragedies and forgotten rebellions lurking in plain sight.

Did the Theatre Royal audience truly witness a performance that incited a local riot? What spectral figure lingers in the dark corridors of the Herschel Museum? Why was a perfectly ordinary morning in Bathwick interrupted by a frantic, unexplained dash for the river?

Photo: Toby Osborn, Unsplash

Tour details

• Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes, entirely at your own pace
• Distance: around 3.9 km (2.4 miles)
• Stops: 14 landmarks, including Roman Baths (Bath), Thermae Bath Spa, Herschel Museum of Astronomy
• Audio: up to 35 minutes of narration
• Starts at: Roman Baths (Bath)

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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

• Roman Baths (Bath)
• Thermae Bath Spa
• Herschel Museum of Astronomy
• Queen Square, Bath
• The Circus, Bath
• Jane Austen Centre
• Theatre Royal, Bath
• Holburne Museum
• Great Pulteney Street
• Pulteney Bridge
• Victoria Art Gallery
• Guildhall, Bath
• Parade Gardens
• Bath Abbey

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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: Toby Osborn, Bradley Pritchard Jones (Unsplash); AudaTours.