Kingston upon Hull Audio Tour: Working Hull

Explore Kingston upon Hull at your own pace

Hull's skyline belongs to the merchants. The streets between the docks, the river and the Minster belong to a different city - the medieval craftsmen who laid the earliest brick Gothic church in England course by course, the seafarers' brotherhood men who built almshouses for the wrecked and widowed, the whaling captains whose Arctic log-books became science, the trawlermen's wives who stood on a dock in January and refused to let another crew sail without a radio operator, the dock labourers who shifted a city's worth of trade by hand across the quays, and the abolition campaigner born in a High Street merchant house who spent thirty years dismantling a trade his own city had profited from. Heritage Open Days 2026 theme is 'Everyday Histories': the unsung and the missing from the picture. This tour names them.

Photo: 43 Clicks North, Unsplash

Tour details

• Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes, entirely at your own pace
• Distance: around 3.0 km (1.9 miles)
• Stops: 9 landmarks, including Hull Maritime Museum, Humber Dock Marina, Kingston upon Hull, Maister House, High Street, Kingston upon Hull
• Audio: up to 23 minutes of narration
• Starts at: Hull Maritime Museum

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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

• Hull Maritime Museum
• Humber Dock Marina, Kingston upon Hull
• Maister House, High Street, Kingston upon Hull
• Wilberforce House
• Blaydes House, 6 High Street, Kingston upon Hull
• The Old White Harte Pub, Silver Street, Kingston upon Hull
• Land of Green Ginger, Kingston upon Hull
• Hull Trinity House, Trinity House Lane, Kingston upon Hull
• Hull Minster, Minster Yard, Kingston upon Hull

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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: 43 Clicks North (Unsplash); AudaTours.