St Albans Audio Tour: Historic Pub Crawl

Explore Saint Albans at your own pace

Beneath the polished cobblestones of St Albans lie the shattered bones of centuries of revolution and betrayal. This is not a city of quiet history but a fortress of secrets waiting to be unearthed.

Take this self-guided audio tour to peel back the layers of a town that survived political purges and bloodthirsty rebellions. You will access hidden narratives that tourists walk past every single day.

Why does the shadow of a local pub hide a secret pact forged in blood? What ghost still rattles the floorboards of The Old Kings Arms during the dead of night? Can you identify which tavern served as the unlikely planning room for a treasonous plot?

Photo: Gary Houston, Wikimedia Commons, CC0

Tour details

• Duration: 35 minutes, entirely at your own pace
• Distance: around 1.4 km (0.8 miles)
• Stops: 6 landmarks, including The White Lion, St Albans, Hare and Hounds, St Albans, The Old Kings Arms
• Audio: up to 15 minutes of narration
• Starts at: The White Lion, St Albans

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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

• The White Lion, St Albans
• Hare and Hounds, St Albans
• The Old Kings Arms
• Fleur de Lys, St Albans
• The Boot, St Albans
• The Cock, St Albans

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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: Gary Houston (Wikimedia Commons, public domain).