Themed, costumed walking tours

The Tudor & Stuart Tour of Chester

Walk the historic streets of Chester, in the company of a professional, costumed guide. Hear remarkable tales, from a city boasting over six hundred listed buildings.

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The Georgian & Regency Tour of Lancaster

Learn fascinating local facts, from a professional, costumed guide, whilst walking the historic streets of Lancaster, a district boasting over thirteen hundred listed buildings and structures.

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Chester Time Travel Tour

Take the family time-travelling through a historic city with a costumed guide. Traverse two thousand years of history in just sixty minutes...

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Lancaster Time Travel Tour

Take the family time-travelling through a historic city with a costumed guide. Traverse two thousand years of history in just sixty minutes...

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Filthy Tour of Chester

Discover Chester's filthy history...the side that makes other tours blush. From grimy street dirt to doing the dirty behind closed doors. Public Filthy tours take place throughout the year. 18 years and over only.

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Disclaimer

If due to unforeseen circumstances a tour is cancelled, and an alternative date cannot be agreed, customers will receive a full refund.

Customers should arrive ten minutes before tour start times. If delayed, customers should contact the guide by phone before the tour is due to start.

Guides will wait for up to ten minutes after tour start times. If customers do not arrive by this time, there will be no refunds on tickets purchased.

Customers must ensure that they are in good health and wear suitable walking shoes as they will be traversing cobbles, narrow paths, hills, uneven surfaces and occasionally steps.

Whilst many of our routes are wheelchair accessible, we ask customers to inform us when booking of any mobility issues to allow for us to plan accordingly.

Although our staff do not walk quickly and are able to adapt to slower paces, we ask customers to consider booking private tours in preference to public ones where pacing is an issue.

Given the historic nature of cities, customers undertake any walking tours at their own discretion and risk.

"Really enjoyable and interesting tour, the guide clearly knew his stuff and shared lots of stories about Chester and the Stuart/Tudor period (and a few ghost stories thrown in...). Fantastic to see inside Stanley Palace, and lots of tips on other buildings to visit."

Charlotte

"Back in London now but thank you so much for your tour of Lancaster yesterday. Christine and I really enjoyed it. You spoke well and clearly even tho in character and linked up for me many of the buildings I had noticed as I walked to and fro. It's a really good enterprise and I wish you luck."

Elizabeth

"The tour lasted 90 minutes and Miles was able to tell us many interesting facts about the Tudor/Stuart history in Chester. He was excellent with my daughter who is a budding historian, taking time to answer questions and gave her encouragement to learn more."

Lynn H

"Having some one to lead you and explain things that occurred or may not have occurred, around the period of history involved in the tour, is both entertaining and enlightening."

"The guide Miles Mason took us on a walking tour of some of Chester's tudor buildings, including the beautiful Stanley Palace, which the group was show around by the guide. Thoroughly recommend."

Sophie C

"Excellent tour , interesting and informative. Lovely architecture in Chester. Fascinating stories of the people who lived and worked in Chester during this period. The tour was done at a relaxed pace so everyone was able to keep up and enjoy the guide’s humour and knowledge of the subject."

Christine G

"Absolutely fantastic tour! There was so much interesting information and our tour guide was so entertaining and had an unbelievable amount of knowledge. I try to do a history tour in any new city we go to and this has by far been the best. This is an absolute must do tour for a fascinating insight into the history of Chester."

Becky

"This was a fantastic tour of Georgian Lancaster. Really brought the character of the town and its people to life during this era. Great fun, excellent tour guide, full of character with lots of stories to tell." Helen B

"Brilliant tour by a well informed guide. Highly recommended. Lived in the area for over forty years but learnt so much."

Lindsey W