Photo: Jonathan Hutchins (CC BY-SA 2.0)
A self-guided audio tour of the seaside town the Mostyn Estate laid out on marshland in the mid-nineteenth century, and the limestone headland above it. It starts on the pier, more than 700 metres of wrought-iron lattice into the bay, then Happy Valley, the old quarry given to the town for Queen Victoria's Jubilee, and the promenade bandstand built because hoteliers complained about the mobile one. Through the planned streets to Holy Trinity, Lady Augusta Mostyn's terracotta gallery, Mostyn Street and the museum, then up the Great Orme by the cable-hauled tramway, changing cars at Halfway Station. On top: copper mines worked some 4,000 years ago and found only in 1987, the summit at 679 feet, and St Tudno's Church in its sheltered hollow over the sea. It ends on the West Shore at the White Rabbit of 1933 and the site of Penmorfa, the Liddell family's holiday house.
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 · 152 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 72 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.
Llandudno Pier, Happy Valley.
The Promenade and the bandstand, Holy Trinity Church, MOSTYN gallery, Mostyn Street, Llandudno Museum, Great Orme Tramway: Victoria Station.
Halfway Station, Great Orme Bronze Age Mines, The Great Orme summit, St Tudno's Church, The White Rabbit and Penmorfa.
A wrought-iron pier of more than 700 metres, built to reach water deep enough for steamers at any tide.
Copper workings about 4,000 years old, dug with stone hammers and bone tools, found when a car park was landscaped in 1987.
Where passengers change cars between the tramway's two cable-hauled sections, with the winding drums turning behind glass.
A semaphore station, golf hotel, RAF radar station and Randolph Turpin's bar, with views to Snowdonia and Anglesey.
A twelfth- and fifteenth-century church in a hollow above the Irish Sea, where summer services are held in the churchyard.
The marble rabbit of 1933 near the site of the Liddells' holiday house; whether Carroll ever visited them there is not documented.
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 Llandudno — the Victorian Resort, the Great Orme and Alice Liddell, 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 Llandudno Pier, Happy Valley, The Promenade and the bandstand, Holy Trinity Church and MOSTYN gallery. That is about 25 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.
Yes, from Llandudno. There is no start time and no group to keep up with, so you can stop at any point and head back to the ship. Keep your own eye on the all-aboard 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 ~4 hours with the tramway 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.