Highlights
- GPS-triggered audio plays automatically as you approach each landmark - explore Swindon at your own pace, with no group and no fixed start time.
- 14 stops across Swindon, roughly 124 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 Swindon at your own pace
Smoke once curled above Swindon as its mighty railway works roared with invention and intrigue. But beneath the grit and progress lies a tapestry of secrets that even locals overlook.
This self-guided audio tour leads you beyond the ordinary, guiding you through Broadgreen and into hidden pockets around Swindon Works, the Museum of the Great Western Railway, and even the legendary Magic Roundabout. Uncover stories left behind by tycoons, rebels, and the daring dreamers who shaped this industrial powerhouse.
What catastrophe forced Swindon's engineers to rethink everything overnight? Why did one local landmark become a symbol of silent rebellion? And what unexpected misadventures haunt the perplexing turns of the Magic Roundabout?
Photo: Peter Albanese, Unsplash
Tour details
- Duration: 1 hour 57 minutes, entirely at your own pace
- Distance: around 5.9 km (3.7 miles)
- Stops: 14 landmarks, including Swindon Mechanics' Institute, Museum of the Great Western Railway, Swindon Works
- Audio: up to 35 minutes of narration
- Starts at: Swindon Mechanics' Institute
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
- Swindon Mechanics' Institute
- Museum of the Great Western Railway
- Swindon Works
- Swindon Designer Outlet
- St Mark's Church, Swindon
- Wyvern Theatre
- Swindon Town Hall
- Museum of Computing
- Museum & Art Swindon
- Holy Rood Church, Swindon
- Queens Park, Swindon
- Magic Roundabout
- County Cricket Ground, Swindon
- County Ground
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: Peter Albanese, Patrick Graham (Unsplash); Wikimedia Commons, Adrian Pingstone (Wikimedia Commons, public domain); AudaTours.
