Canterbury Walking Tour: Delve Into History with City's Official Guided Visit

Immerse yourself in the rich history of Canterbury with the city’s official guided walking tour. Explore medieval lanes, pilgrim inns, and the majestic Cathedral’s Precincts while hearing captivating stories of the city’s evolution over the years.

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • 36 Burgate - Experience history brought to life by our expert Green Badge Guides on a captivating 90-minute tour. Journey through the medieval lanes, the Cathedral Precincts, and the historic grounds of King’s School. Hear intriguing tales of murder, ghosts, and the many renowned historical figures, writers, and artists who have lived or visited…
What's Included
  • Fully qualified Green Badge Canterbury City Guide
  • Tour of central city lanes
  • Visit to famous Cathedral Precincts (grounds)
What's Not Included
  • Entry to attractions
Additional Information

Canterbury Guided Tours offer engaging hour and a half tours for those visiting the historic city of Canterbury. From ancient streets and pilgrim inns to the grand Cathedral’s Precincts, our tours will take you on a historic journey, narrating tales and portraying the city’s transformation over the ages.
Established in 1948, Canterbury Tourist Guides…

Location
Butter Market
Daily Tour: Please meet your Guide in the Buttermarket, outside the main Cathedral Gate. Guides wear a red sash. Please note you may finish your tour in a different location (usually the High Street).
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Kevin_d
Aug 15, 2025
Excellent- do it! - Excellent guide really interesting commentary throughout and showed so many interesting places to see
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Mrsjost
Aug 13, 2025
Outstanding - This was a truly excellent tour. Informative but presented in a warm , friendly , easy manner that made it all the more interesting. Julian was outstanding, one of the best tour guides we’ve had and we are frequent walking tour people. His knowledge was extensive- but he never over faced the group. He checked we were were happy with the level of information as we went. Invited questions and included everyone in the answers. It was meant to be 1 1/2 hours but the group was so involved that it ran over- he checked everyone was happy with that.
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Onair231659
Aug 12, 2025
Knowledgeable engaging tour - Alex was a superb tour guide. Her detailed knowledge was very welcome, and had very engaging stories to tell. So glad I went on this tour. I learned a lot!
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Peter
Aug 6, 2025
Canterbury walking tour - Pauline was an excellent guide. She was extremely knowledgeable and told amusing anecdotes. She made sure to include everyone in the group.
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375margv
Jul 31, 2025
Beautiful Canterbury - Me and my husband visited the Canterbury and took this tour last minute. It was a very informative tour lots of stories to hear. We had a fantastic time - what a beautiful city
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Erik
Jul 28, 2025
Highly recommended - This city walk is highly recommended! We met Melody at DE buttermarkt EN she took us around DE city for over 1.5 hours. We hear DE about the EN, the martyrdom of Thomas Becket, poet Geoffrey Chaucer and all kinds of DE about architecture in the city. We also heard interesting stories around Canterbury Cathedral. Melody is very all round EN gives a lot of information. A very nice introduction to then explore far DEr the city yourself!
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Kdb92522
Jul 23, 2025
Outstanding tour - Julian was a phenomenal tour guide -engaging, charismatic, and incredibly knowledgeable. Even with a large group, he made sure to connect with everyone. Highly recommend the tour -excellent value.
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Jilled117
Jul 18, 2025
Great way to see Canterbury - We loved this tour. Our guide, Mark, was outstanding. Not only was he extremely knowledgeable his talks were just brilliant. He has to be an actor, he brought all the stories to life and was so funny. His presentation of a part of the Canterbury Tails was superb. We were also fascinated by what we saw. We live near Canterbury and know it well but as we had friends staying we thought we would take this tour. We were not disappointed. We went into the grounds of Canterbury Cathedral which are not covered by any other tour (or at least not on a regular basis) so we saw and learned so much we didn’t know. This was also the case after we left the grounds. We can highly recommend this tour.
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Departure58215627522
Jul 17, 2025
Highly recommend! - An amazing experience! Knowledgeable guide, great sights, and seamless tour. engaging, making every stop memorable! Highly recommend!
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Mso636
Jul 24, 2025
Just ok - This tour was just ok. Our tour guide’s voice just wasn’t as loud and clear as expected. Tour guide could have been more enthusiastic and entertaining. We didn’t even get to go inside the Cathedral. And we should have been given chances to to take pics.
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up to 6 guests
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Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).