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A self-guided audio walk through Falmouth, the harbour town the Killigrew family built. It starts on the High Street and the Moor, where a granite obelisk remembers the Royal Mail packet ships that sailed from Falmouth from 1688 to 1852, and the Prince of Wales Pier, from which the St Nazaire raiders left in 1942. Along the waterfront: Fish Strand Quay, where the dispatch announcing Trafalgar and Nelson's death came ashore in November 1805, the Church of King Charles the Martyr, Custom House Quay and the King's Pipe, where seized tobacco was burned in public view, the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, Arwenack House and the Killigrew Monument, and the docks begun in 1860, where cruise ships berth. The walk ends on the headland at Pendennis Castle, Henry VIII's artillery fort, which held out for the King for five months in 1646, its Tudor keep, the blockhouse of Little Dennis, and Gyllyngvase Beach.
13 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 53 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 11 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
High Street and Market Strand, The Moor and the Packet Memorial, Prince of Wales Pier.
Fish Strand Quay, Church of King Charles the Martyr, Custom House Quay and the King's Pipe, Events Square and the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, Arwenack House and the Killigrew Monument, Falmouth Docks and the cruise berths.
Pendennis Castle: the gatehouse and the siege of 1646, Pendennis Castle: Henry VIII's keep, Pendennis Point and Little Dennis, Gyllyngvase Beach and Queen Mary Gardens.
A granite obelisk for the Post Office packet ships that carried the mails from Falmouth to Spain, Portugal, the West Indies and America from 1688 to 1852.
Where Lieutenant Lapenotiere landed on 4 November 1805 with the dispatch announcing Trafalgar and the death of Nelson.
Sir Peter Killigrew's quay of about 1670, and the brick chimney where Customs burned seized tobacco for all to see.
The Killigrews' seat, Parliament's headquarters in the siege of Pendennis, and the uninscribed granite pyramid of 1737 opposite.
Henry VIII's fort on the headland, held for the King for five months in 1646 until hunger forced its surrender.
A D-shaped Tudor blockhouse of 1539 on the bedrock at the harbour mouth, its walls nearly three metres thick.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 13 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 13 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in Falmouth — Pendennis Castle, the Packets and the Harbour of the Killigrews, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
13 narration points, including High Street and Market Strand, The Moor and the Packet Memorial, Prince of Wales Pier, Fish Strand Quay and Church of King Charles the Martyr. That is about 22 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~2½ hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 13 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.