Audio tours
in London

Audio tours in London

Dark History

Jack the Ripper: The Real Steps of 1888

A walking route through Whitechapel and Spitalfields, following the five crime scenes of London's most famous unsolved case. Real streets, real dates, no sensationalism, no invented details. Approximate audio length: 10

🎧 10 min 10 stops 🚶 5.39 km ESENPT +2

Dark History

Dark London: Executioners, Fire and Power

A walking route from the Tower of London to Smithfield, through the real settings of public executions, the Great Fire of 1666, and centuries of punishment used as spectacle. No dramatized violence — just the facts, as t

🎧 10 min 10 stops 🚶 3.79 km ESENPT +2

History

London at War: The Blitz and the City That Held On

A walking route from Trafalgar Square to the City, following the real places where London lived through the Second World War: Churchill's bunker, the scars of the Blitz, and the cathedral that refused to fall. Approximat

🎧 10 min 10 stops 🚶 6.3 km ESENPT +2

History

The Monarchy: From Buckingham to the Crown Today

A walking route through the palaces, squares, and living traditions of the British monarchy, from the Changing of the Guard to the Coronation Chair. Real history, real protocol, and the question dividing Britain today. A

🎧 11 min 10 stops 🚶 5.23 km ESENPT +2

Suggested plan for London

Doing every Trevurs tour in London takes about 6 h 15 min in total. A relaxed way to split it:

No fixed schedule: start whenever you want, skip stops, or spread a tour over several days.

London on a budget

The Trevurs app is free and has 4 audio tours in London: 41 min of narration across 40 stops and 20.7 km of walking routes. Download them over wifi and listen offline, with no mobile data. Entry tickets to museums, churches or monuments along the way are not included. Premium, from USD 1.99, adds unlimited offline downloads, every tour and no ads.

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London at your own pace

Each tour starts at stop 1 and you go stop by stop at your own pace: pause, rewind or skip any stop. No booking and no fixed start time, and it works offline once downloaded.

• Jack the Ripper: The Real Steps of 1888
  Starts at stop 1, “Whitechapel, 1888” (map) · 10 min of audio · 5.4 km (~1 h 20 min on foot) · ~1 h 30 min in total
• Dark London: Executioners, Fire and Power
  Starts at stop 1, “The Fortress That Became a Prison” (map) · 10 min of audio · 3.8 km (~55 min on foot) · ~1 h 15 min in total
• London at War: The Blitz and the City That Held On
  Starts at stop 1, “London Prepares for War” (map) · 10 min of audio · 6.3 km (~1 h 35 min on foot) · ~1 h 45 min in total
• The Monarchy: From Buckingham to the Crown Today
  Starts at stop 1, “The Palace That Still Works” (map) · 11 min of audio · 5.2 km (~1 h 20 min on foot) · ~1 h 45 min in total

In one day you can do London at War: The Blitz and the City That Held On (~1 h 45 min), The Monarchy: From Buckingham to the Crown Today (~1 h 45 min) and Jack the Ripper: The Real Steps of 1888 (~1 h 30 min): about 5 h of touring with audio and walking. Doing all 4 tours takes about 2 days at a relaxed pace, as in the suggested plan on this page.

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Why an audio tour

• ✓ No group to keep up with and no guide to wait for
• ✓ Start at any time of day, on your own schedule
• ✓ Go at your own pace: pause, rewind or skip any stop
• ✓ No need to commit 2 or 3 hours to a single tour: do one stop or the whole route
• ✓ Works offline once downloaded

Trevurs is a free app for iOS and Android. There is also an optional Premium version, from USD 1.99, with unlimited offline downloads, access to every tour and no ads. It also helps keep an independent app alive.

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