Photo: Diego Delso (CC BY-SA 4.0)
A self-guided audio walk through medieval Norwich. From the Norman castle keep, later a gaol and then a museum, it crosses the market the Normans laid out to St Peter Mancroft, the 1938 City Hall and the flint Guildhall, built after Norwich became a county in its own right in 1404. Strangers' Hall recalls the weavers from Flanders the city invited in 1565. Then the Dominican friary church of St Andrew's and Blackfriars' Halls, cobbled Elm Hill, Tombland and the Ethelbert Gate built after the riot of 1272, the Erpingham Gate and the Edith Cavell memorial, and the cathedral begun in 1096, with its cloister of carved bosses. The walk follows the Wensum past the Great Hospital, Cow Tower and Bishop Bridge, where Kett's rebels stormed the city in 1549, to Pull's Ferry, the Music House and the story of medieval Jewish Norwich, Dragon Hall, and the church where Julian of Norwich lived as an anchoress.
19 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 · 358 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 214 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.
Norwich Castle, St Peter Mancroft, City Hall, Norwich Market, Norwich Guildhall, Strangers' Hall.
St Andrew's and Blackfriars' Halls, Elm Hill, Tombland and the Ethelbert Gate, Erpingham Gate and the Edith Cavell memorial, Norwich Cathedral, Cathedral cloister.
Great Hospital, Cow Tower, Bishop Bridge and Kett's Rebellion, Pull's Ferry, The Music House and medieval Jewish Norwich, Dragon Hall, St Julian's Church.
The Norman keep on its man-made mound, begun around 1094, a gaol from 1220, and where Robert Kett was hanged in chains in 1549.
The cobbled medieval street beside the Wensum, saved from clearance after the Norwich Society's survey of 1927.
Begun in 1096 by Herbert de Losinga, with a stone spire of 1480 and centuries of graffiti scratched into its stonework.
Built from 1297 to 1430, its 49 bays carry carved bosses of Green Men, dragons and Apocalypse scenes low enough to study.
The fourteenth-century bridge Kett's rebels attacked across in 1549 to take the city, before their defeat at Dussindale.
The rebuilt church on the site of the cell where Julian of Norwich wrote Revelations of Divine Love, the earliest surviving book in English known to be by a woman.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 19 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. 19 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 Norwich — the Cathedral, the Castle, Elm Hill and the Strangers, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
19 narration points, including Norwich Castle, St Peter Mancroft, Norwich Market, Norwich Guildhall and Strangers' Hall. That is about 39 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. 19 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.