Guided City Walking Tour of Newcastle: Exploring Historical Sights and Interesting Characters
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432 Ratings
Tyne and Wear
Embark on a guided city walking tour of Newcastle and explore its historical sights and fascinating characters. Discover the city's rich history from the Iron Age to present day. Prepare for a 3.5km journey with steps, road crossings, and uneven pavement. Check the weather forecast and contact the tour guide in case of bad weather.
Duration:
2 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Grey’s Monument - Hear the history of Grainger Town and the man on the monument.
- Grainger Market - More history of Grainger Town, and the market built to replace those demolished to build it.
- Blackfriars Medieval Friary - Learn about the history of the Blackfriars, and the mark they left on Newcastle.
- The Newcastle Town Wall - Hear about the town wall and it’s towers, the siege of Newcastle in 1644, and the Gallowgate leadworks.
- St. Mary’s Cathedral - The first cathedral in Newcastle (but not the oldest). Hear the history of the cathedrals in the city, and how this one came to be built.
- Newcastle Castle - Hear about the history of the site from the Iron Age to the Roman fort, and the building, and rebuilding, of the castle.
What's Included
- English-speaking tour guide
Additional Information
Embark on an enthralling journey around the enticing city of Newcastle where you will discover intriguing sites. You’ll be enlightened about the city’s progression from the Iron Age to modern times, along with intriguing narratives about some distinctive city residents.
This tour covers a path of roughly 3.5km (2.2 miles) and involves several steps, road crossings, and some uneven pavement underfoot.
Ensure to gear up based on the predicted weather conditions for the day.
If adverse weather conditions emerge, feel free to get in touch via the messaging option available on TripAdvisor to confirm if the tour is proceeding. Cancelations due to weather conditions will be quite infrequent.
Location
Société Café Bar
Grey Street
From December 1st 2023 NO TOURS will meet at Grey's Monument due to disruption from the Christmas market and from weekend demonstrations. After this date ALL TOURS will begin at Societe Cafe where the staff are selling hot drinks, including some festive mulled wine!
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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702zackt
Apr 23, 2024
Great experience - My boyfriend and I booked this tour the day after we arrived in Newcastle for the first time. Rob was incredibly informative, cheerful, and clearly passionate about the history of this beautiful city. It was a great first activity for newcomers to Newcastle, and Rob was able to provide us with many recommendations on how to spend our week here. I feel like my knowledge and appreciation for the city increased ten-fold! Highly recommend!
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Justruben88
Apr 19, 2024
Fantastic guide, fantastic knowledge lots of fun and great care taken by the guide! - Absolutely fantastic experience having brought my fiancée who fell in love with Newcastle’s charm, I decided we should have a tour of the area. I know the area like the back of my hand and had a good working knowledge of the city and its history… however! I learned so much from this tour my partner and I both did! Rich information, laughs along the way, fun places to see after the tour, it was amazing! We would highly recommend this even if you’re a local! We are 100% coming back for more tours!
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Birties
Apr 16, 2024
An enjoyable exercise - Enjoyable and informative tour with Rob, who has clearly researched the local history. Would recommend for anyone who wants to know more about Grainger town
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Katherinea763
Apr 13, 2024
Varied knowledge and very enjoyable - Our guided tour was excellent very informative with great local knowledge with many funny stories . I would strongly recommend these tours .
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I5189hdmarym
Apr 7, 2024
Very fun tour of a great city - Delightful and interesting tour of
The city center of New Castle fun facts and lots of history. Something for everyone. Recommend!
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226eds
Apr 6, 2024
Great tour 😃 - What a delightful tour. Rob knows it all and is so enthousiastic that he won’t stop feeding you with all you need to know about Newcastle. Time is not an issue for him, because the tour lasted more than three hours.
When you take a visit to Newcastle this tour is a must 😃.
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Davidrp4537gv
Apr 6, 2024
Walking tour - Very knowledgeable and friendly guide. Tour well suited to small group we were part of. Very worthwhile morning. Thoroughly recommended.
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Wishihadalambo
Apr 6, 2024
Superb Tour - This guided tour is one of the best I have been on… I urge you not to miss it. It is a good balance between history and random facts and the effort needed to cover the walk is well balanced. Rob is phenomenally knowledgeable and this is one of the few walks I have been on where I have remembered numerous facts, to the extent of boring my husband the next day, because they were delivered in such an absorbing manor.
I was truly impressed.
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Buggero2024
Mar 30, 2024
Worth the walk. - “Red Beards” tour is a treasure trove of rich, well researched, interesting, and historical curiosities. Don’t miss out!
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V3762kykerrym
Mar 26, 2024
Fabulous tour - What an amazing friendly tour guide. He was so knowledgeable about the city. We went at a steady pace and learnt so much. We were having such a fabulous time we had gone over our time by 45 minutes!
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