Guided Walking Tour Of Durham & Its Infamous Characters

Wonderful walking tour learning about history and individuals from Durham’s past. Tom is an engaging and fun guide! I would highly recommend!

A lot of fun. Tom is friendly, funny, and engaging. Great stories too! Also very knowledgeable about a city he clearly loves. His many skills include walking backwards and spotting cows. Thank you, Tom. 5 stars

Our guide, Tom was fantastic; amusing, very knowledgeable and kept us all focused, engaged and entertained despite a wide age range in the group. A definite 'Recommend' from us! Durham is a hilly place, so do wear appropriate footwear.

I was blown away by how good the tour was. Super knowledgeable and charismatic.

My partner and I joined Tom on his walking tour this weekend - informative, engaging, funny, thoroughly interesting - and a great value for money too. Highly recommend for anyone visiting Durham!

We had a fabulous time on this tour! Tom was both knowledgeable and entertaining, the walking pace was perfectly pitched, we saw things we’d not otherwise have spotted, and Tom shared a wealth of information that really enhanced our visit to the city. Highly recommended. Thank you ☺️

Tom was a brilliant guide and we can thoroughly recommend him. As we walked around the city we learned interesting and unusual facts and stories about some of its previous inhabitants and key buildings and monuments. We learned much more than we could have done by using a guidebook or audio guide and it was clear that Tom loves the city of Durham and has undertaken significant research which is keen to share with his customers. Thank you Tom!

Very interesting tour & Tom was an excellent knowledgeable & entertaining guide. I would definitely recommend him to friends.

Tom was brilliant. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and had quite a range in our group 21-65 but everyone learnt something. Tom was also very flexible when my mum became ill and we needed to change the dates last minute-thank you Tom! He was also patient with my mum and her slower walking and mobility not to mention her funny questions. Would highly recommend for something different in Durham!

Interesting tour, great guide & excellent value. Highly recommend.

Tom was èxcellent, very well suited to being a guide. Accomplished story teller!

Tom met us at the designated point and kicked off the tour with a short story, filled with history and a touch of humor. As we casually walked through and and the streets of Durham, Tom shared so many fascinating facts, stories and humorous tales that our time together flew by too quickly. We loved this tour and our time with Tom. He is a jewel of Durham!

Very informative and interesting . The tour is full of information and tales. We loved it highly recommend . The guide was excellent kept us all inthralled.

Our guide Tom was awesome and really made the tour so enjoyable. We knew a little about Durham but had only scratched the surface. Tom took us on a deep dive and our group of 5 thoroughly enjoyed every minute!

I went with my husband to get a feel for Durham. I had been before but hadn't really seen much of it. My husband knew Durham well and thought our guide was very good. I found him to be interesting and entertaining. It was just the right amount of walking, enjoyable and not too taxing.

Tom the guide was very entertaining and informative and the tour was just about the right length

An entertaining and informative tour by an enthusiastic guide. I loved it. Would highly recommend!

Our guide (Tom, I think? Can’t remember) was excellent. Very knowledgeable, approachable and humorous. He led us on a wonderful tour of Durham telling us some interesting tales of some of its inhabitants through the ages. Excellent value for money.

Fabulous experience. Tom was an incredible guide, giving a wonderful overview of the history of the Cathedral, the city, and the county. Very highly recommended.

We had a great time with Tom our Guide , he made the tour really interesting with his strolling minstrel style . Picked out all the local landmarks and more .. 90 minutes of a memorable tour

Great 90 minutes of stories and sights around Durham. Our host Tom was informative and entertaining. A lovely experience.

Tom was a great guide. Lots of interesting stories about Durham history and some of its characters. It was well paced and thoroughly enjoyable.

In Durham for a few days holiday. Wanted a historical overview and orientation around the city. This walk, with the story told via key characters in the history of Durham, was fun and informative. Really enjoyed it!

Tom our guide, fluent, interesting and thoughtful. We saw parts of the city that were new to us and heard stories of daringdo!

Excellent value and very interesting tour with lots of useful information and insights with a great guide in Tom

Great fun - informative, friendly, interesting - excellent introduction to a lovely city. Tom’s knowledge, story telling and humour made for a great morning. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Thank you, Tom.

Our guide was excellent, very entertaining, informative, and enthusiastic.

Excellent value for money, learnt so much about Durham.

The walking tour was fantastic, our guide knew his stuff and he made sure to include everyone on the walk

Brilliant tour, excellent story telling way of getting to know Durham. Captivating & interesting. Tom is very knowledgeable

Great guide. Knowledgeable about Durham. hilly, so be prepared to walk. Guide was humorous and interesting.

Tom was a fantastic guide. He was engaging, funny and extremely knowledgeable. He always had answers to our questions and encouraging our participation in the tour.

Tom is such an enthusiastic and knowledgeable guide. Enjoyed hearing about the history and folklore of Durham, as first time visitors. Enjoyed crossing the Ove Arup bridge, taking a different route and perspective we would never have discovered on our short trip. We were puzzled as to why our fellow Scots kept trying to take the Castle and Durham over the centuries until unification....definitely would have been in my 'too hard' box! Highly recommend this tour and worth way more than £11 per person 😊

Really enjoyed the walk around Durham on what was a lovely sunny day. Our guide was a really friendly person who was very knowledgeable and had a good store of interesting (from a historical and character point of view) and at times amusing stories. A great way to spend 90 mins in Durham

Excellent tour. Tom was brilliant. Held our interest by being informative, amusing, and entertaining. Using his impressive knowledge of Durham city history linked to infamous characters.

Tom was a great guide. We went to quite a few different places in Durham. Very entertaining as well as knowledgeable.

Tom was an excellent guide and storyteller. He was really knowledgeable, and had a great way of bringing Durham’s characters to life, as well as explaining key points about the cathedral and castle. I would highly recommend Tom as a guide.

We had a good time on this tour with Tom. Was able to learn plenty of stories about Durham history and origination. Tom was a great guide and an engaging storyteller. I would recommend this tour to anyone interested Thank you Tom. Aziz,

We struck lucky with this one. When we met Thomas our guide he told us we were the only two people on the tour. What followed was a really personal, funny, entertaining and very informative tour of the city. Amazing guide, great value and very highly recommended.

Brilliant tour! Tom is incredibly knowledgeable and friendly. Tour is very well thought out and informative. Would heavily recommend to anyone, well worth the money :)

My teen son and I went on this tour and it was absolutely amazing. We come to the area regularly to visit family so know the area a bit but this tour brought Durham to life with the stories and history. My 13 year old still talks about this tour so thank you. It was so engaging and interesting. The tour guide was friendly, knowledgeable and kept us entertained with stories of Durham and its historic people. The tour guide was so good he should be hosting his own history show on TV!!!

My guide was very informative and insightful. He provided a stellar introduction to the history of Durham and many of the curious inhabitants who've walked its cobbled streets. Absolutely a must do if, like me, you're new not just to Durham but the whole region. I did an evening tour in February so some areas got a little dark but that made it atmospheric for me.

A really enjoyable and knowledgeable tour of Durham. Great to get to see places we would not have stumbled upon. Great value for money!

Tom is very knowledgeable about Durham's history and quirky, often infamous, characters. He is great company and we thoroughly enjoyed the tour which is great value for money.

A great walk. Tom was very knowledgeable and entertaining. I would certainly recommend him. He told some lovely stories regarding some great characters.

Tom is fantastic. His knowledge of Durham and its history is encyclopedic and he is extremely engaging and delivers the tour in a friendly and amusing way. Highly recommended!

This was an absolutely brilliant walking tour. Tom was an excellent guide, full of knowledge and obviously passionate about history. He really brought the characters to life. The pace was very leisurely and never felt rushed, with plenty of time for questions and we certainly learned a lot about Durham in that short time. Would highly recommend.

Tom was very entertaining and so interesting We really enjoyed our tour and would definitely recommend it to anyone who wants to get to know more about Durham

Tom was an amazing guide he was very passionate and can tell this is something that he loves doing. It was our 1st guided tour and will most definitely do more tours