Photo: Ken Day (CC BY-SA 4.0)
A self-guided audio walk through Laugharne, the small town on the Taf estuary where Dylan Thomas lived on and off for nearly twenty years. It begins on the Strand, the 'heron priested shore' of Poem in October, and Eros, the cottage with no plumbing where Dylan and Caitlin first lived in 1938, then the Grist Cross and Laugharne Castle, a Norman castle Sir John Perrot turned into a Tudor mansion, with the gazebo where Richard Hughes, and later Thomas, wrote. In the town: the Town Hall of 1747, where the Corporation and its Portreeve still meet, Brown's Hotel, Thomas's daily haunt, and Sea View behind the castle. Then along Dylan's Walk to the shed above the water where he worked on Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night and Under Milk Wood, the Boathouse, his home from 1949 until he left for New York in 1953, and St Martin's Church, where Dylan and Caitlin lie in one grave under a white wooden cross.
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 · 18 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.
The Strand and the Taf estuary, Eros, Gosport Street, The Grist and the Grist Cross, Laugharne Castle, Castle House, the gazebo and Richard Hughes.
The Town Hall and the Portreeve, Brown's Hotel, Sea View.
Cliff Road and Dylan's Walk, Dylan Thomas's writing shed, Dylan Thomas Boathouse, St Martin's Church, Laugharne, The graves of Dylan and Caitlin Thomas.
The de Brian family's thirteenth-century castle, made into a Tudor mansion by Sir John Perrot and the 'castle brown as owls' of Poem in October.
The gazebo on the castle wall where Richard Hughes worked, and where Thomas wrote stories for Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.
The whitewashed Town Hall of 1747, where the Corporation still meets under its Portreeve, who wears a chain of gold cockle shells.
Dylan Thomas's daily haunt, where he took breakfast, played darts, and listened at a window table.
A 1920s garage turned into his workroom in 1949, looking across the estuary to Sir John's Hill.
The family's home from May 1949 until his departure for New York in 1953, now a museum.
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 Laugharne — Dylan Thomas's Boathouse, the Castle and the Portreeve's Town, 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 The Strand and the Taf estuary, Eros, Gosport Street, The Grist and the Grist Cross, Laugharne Castle and Castle House, the gazebo and Richard Hughes. That is about 17 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 ~2 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.