Warwick Audio Tour: The Town Behind the Walls

Explore Warwick at your own pace

Warwick belongs to the earls on its postcards. The streets beneath the castle walls belong to a different story - the armourers and mill-tenants who kept the castle running, the six named craftsmen whose contracts survive from the making of Richard Beauchamp's tomb, the five named workers who rebuilt St Mary's nave after the 1694 fire destroyed a quarter of the town, the veterans and their wives who have kept the same morning prayers since 1571, the wool-trading mercer Thomas Oken who made his fortune and gave it all away, the mason Francis Smith who was born in the ashes of one town and spent his life building the next. This is Heritage Open Days' 'Everyday Histories' - the working names Warwick nearly forgot.

Photo: Tom Podmore, Unsplash

Tour details

• Duration: 47 minutes, entirely at your own pace
• Distance: around 1.8 km (1.1 miles)
• Stops: 9 landmarks, including Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick, Warwick Market Place, Lord Leycester Hospital, High Street, Warwick
• Audio: up to 23 minutes of narration
• Starts at: Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick

Map data by Mapbox and OpenStreetMap contributors

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

• Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
• Warwick Market Place
• Lord Leycester Hospital, High Street, Warwick
• West Gate and St James's Chapel, Warwick
• High Street, Warwick - Fire Rebuilding Act streetline
• The Court House, Jury Street, Warwick
• Oken's House, Castle Street, Warwick
• Castle Mill and Old Bridge, Mill Street, Warwick
• Warwick Castle, Warwick

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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: Tom Podmore, A Perry (Unsplash); AudaTours.