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Ludlow: Self-Guided Audio Tour
Features
- Free cancellation available
- 1h 30m
- Mobile voucher
- Instant confirmation
Overview
- See some of the town’s more than 500 buildings of special historical interest
- Hear from producer Owen Bowles, a Blue Badge Tourist Guide
- Do it all in 90 minutes or linger at stops along the way
- Get unlimited use before your booking date and after it
- Use the virtual tour option at home
Activity location
- Ludlow
- Ludlow, England, United Kingdom
Meeting/Redemption Point
- Start: Ludlow Castle: Castle Sq, Ludlow SY8 1AY, United Kingdom The tour begins at the entrance to Ludlow Castle, next to the Russian Cannon, at the west end of Castle Square.
- Ludlow, England, United Kingdom
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Valid for 1 Hour, Ludlow: Self-Guided Audio Tour in English
- 1h 30m
- English
What's included, what's not
- Lifetime access to this tour in English
- VoiceMap App for Android and iOS
- Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
- Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route
- Smartphone and headphones
- Transport
- Food and drink
Know before you book
- In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
What you can expect
Full of restaurants with fantastic tasting menus and other more modest lip-smacking eateries and pubs, a visit to the market town of Ludlow is a feast for the senses for foodies! On this walking tour, I’ll show you the gastronomic delights and historical sites of Ludlow, the slow food capital of England.
Starting in front of Ludlow Castle, you’ll be guided around the town, down Broad Street, through the Whitcliffe Common Nature Reserve and over the Dinham Bridge before arriving back at the castle. Along the way, I’ll show you some of the town’s more than 500 listed buildings of special historical interest – more than any other town of equivalent size. You’ll also hear fascinating titbits about Ludlow and find out if poet John Betjeman was correct when he described it as “probably the loveliest town in England.”
On this 90-minute walk around the town, you’ll have the opportunity to:
• Find out how the castle’s massive outer bailey was used to muster troops for the Norman invasion of Ireland
• See Ludlow Assembly Rooms where the great and the good of Georgian and early Victorian society came to party
• Peruse Ludlow Market’s superb range of local produce
• Take in the massive cathedral-sized wool church of St Laurence’s with its famous carillon playing at 4-hour intervals
• Pass by sumptuously decorated historical inns, shops and houses, including the Feathers Hotel which was once described as the “prodigy of timber framed buildings”
• Walk through the fortified gatehouse of Broad Gate, built to keep out the marauding Welsh
• Go over the medieval stone Ludlow Bridge, built in the early 1400s, which was a site of early confrontation in the Wars of the Roses
• Discover Whitcliffe Common, a site of Special Scientific Interest with 415-million-year-old rock formations and early fossils, on a stroll along the Bread Walk, its riverside promenade
• Take delight in the River Teme, a fast-flowing river which skirts the town
• Hear about how Lucien Bonaparte, the brother of Napoleon, was confined to Dinham House during the Napoleonic Wars
By the end of the tour, you’ll have the answers to questions like:
• Who was the first husband of Catherine of Aragon?
• What is a Burnt Cornflake?
• Where did Robin Hood lose an arrow?
• When did Ludlow become the capital of Wales?
• How did Ludlow get its name?
So come and join me on this stroll around Ludlow and Whitcliffe Common and discover its historical and culinary delights!
Location
Activity location
- Ludlow
- Ludlow, England, United Kingdom
Meeting/Redemption Point
- Start: Ludlow Castle: Castle Sq, Ludlow SY8 1AY, United Kingdom The tour begins at the entrance to Ludlow Castle, next to the Russian Cannon, at the west end of Castle Square.
- Ludlow, England, United Kingdom