Highlights
- GPS-triggered audio plays automatically as you approach each landmark - explore Leeds at your own pace, with no group and no fixed start time.
- 14 stops across Leeds, roughly 60 minutes of narration, walked in whatever order and at whatever speed suits you.
- Works fully offline once downloaded, so you need no data or signal while you walk.
- Your code never expires and there is no fixed date - buy now and use it whenever you next visit.
Explore Leeds at your own pace
A 15-stop walking tour of the working day of Leeds - from Michael Marks's 1884 penny stall in Kirkgate Market, through the 1711 White Cloth Hall and the ghost of the 1758 Coloured Cloth Hall under City Square, to John Barran's 1858 band-knife and the Hispano-Moorish tailoring palace it paid for, the Holbeck mills where Salamanca rolled out in 1812 and flax was spun under a grass-and-sheep roof, and finally to Leeds Bridge where the everyday traffic was filmed in October 1888 and a working morning became the oldest cinema in Britain.
Photo: Paul Rigel, Unsplash
Tour details
- Duration: 1 hour 46 minutes, entirely at your own pace
- Distance: around 5.2 km (3.2 miles)
- Stops: 14 landmarks, including City Square, Leeds, St Pauls House, Leeds, Temple Works
- Audio: up to 35 minutes of narration
- Starts at: City Square, Leeds
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
- City Square, Leeds
- St Pauls House, Leeds
- Temple Works
- Marshall's Mill
- Round Foundry
- The Tetley, Hunslet Road, Leeds
- Leeds Bridge
- 3rd White Cloth Hall, Crown Street, Leeds
- 1st White Cloth Hall, Kirkgate, Leeds
- Leeds Corn Exchange
- Kirkgate Market
- Leeds City Varieties
- Briggate
- Mill Hill Chapel
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: Paul Rigel, Satty Singh, Mario Tuzon, Abbie Hartley, Tim Lumley, Korng Sok, Joseph Mama (Unsplash); AudaTours.
