Gloucester Audio Tour: No More Twist

Explore Gloucester at your own pace

Gloucester's spires, cloisters and dockside warehouses belong to the history books. The streets between them belong to a different city - the medieval stonemasons who invented fan vaulting under plague conditions, the tailor who finished a mayor's waistcoat by candlelight and pinned a note saying 'no more twist', the newspaper printer who started the Sunday School movement, the pin-wire workers at the Westgate bench who once employed one in five of the city's population, the Augustinian canons dispersed with a year's pension, the corn-porters who hauled grain to the top of Llanthony Warehouse, and the watermen whose trows ran salt and timber on the Severn before the canal cut them out. These are the working people who kept Gloucester going - and whose names rarely made it onto the plaques.

Photo: Phil Jolley, Unsplash

Tour details

• Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes, entirely at your own pace
• Distance: around 3.7 km (2.3 miles)
• Stops: 14 landmarks, including St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester, Infirmary Arches, College Green, Gloucester, Gloucester Cathedral Great Cloister
• Audio: up to 35 minutes of narration
• Starts at: St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester

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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

• St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester
• Infirmary Arches, College Green, Gloucester
• Gloucester Cathedral Great Cloister
• College Court, Gloucester
• Eastgate Viewing Chamber, Eastgate Street, Gloucester
• Robert Raikes House, 36 Southgate Street, Gloucester
• The New Inn, Gloucester
• Gloucester Cross, upper Westgate Street
• Three Cocks Lane, Gloucester
• The Folk of Gloucester, 99 Westgate Street
• Gloucester Prison gatehouse, Barrack Square
• Gloucester Docks main basin, north quay
• National Waterways Museum, Llanthony Warehouse, Gloucester Docks
• Llanthony Secunda Priory gatehouse, Gloucester

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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: Praveen Goonathilake, Phil Jolley, Taylor Keeran (Unsplash).