Guided City Walking Tour of Newcastle: Exploring Historical Sights and Interesting Characters

Embark on a guided city walking tour of Newcastle and explore its historical sights and fascinating characters. Discover the city’s rich history from the Iron Age to present day. Prepare for a 3.5km journey with steps, road crossings, and uneven pavement. Check the weather forecast and contact the tour guide in case of bad weather.

Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Grey’s Monument - Hear the history of Grainger Town and the man on the monument.
  • Grainger Market - More history of Grainger Town, and the market built to replace those demolished to build it.
  • Blackfriars Medieval Friary - Learn about the history of the Blackfriars, and the mark they left on Newcastle.
  • The Newcastle Town Wall -…
What's Included
  • English-speaking tour guide
Additional Information

Embark on an enthralling journey around the enticing city of Newcastle where you will discover intriguing sites. You’ll be enlightened about the city’s progression from the Iron Age to modern times, along with intriguing narratives about some distinctive city residents.
This tour covers a path of roughly 3.5km (2.2 miles) and involves several steps, road…

Location
Société Café Bar
Grey Street
From December 1st 2023 NO TOURS will meet at Grey's Monument due to disruption from the Christmas market and from weekend demonstrations. After this date ALL TOURS will begin at Societe Cafe where the staff are selling hot drinks, including some festive mulled wine!
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Harmanvmh
Jun 4, 2025
Newcastle Walking Tour. - Our guide was Rob - hugely knowledgeable about Newcastle City and very funny. The 2.5 hours went very quickly, such an enjoyable tour
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Milton_h
May 27, 2025
Rob was awesome, his... - Rob was awesome, his knowledge in the area and general was amazing. Highly recommend for all levels.
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Terri
May 26, 2025
Great local info and recommendations - Our guide was super knowledgeable about the area and made our tour quite enjoyable. Sadly, we didn’t have enough time, after our tour, to go back and shop at Grainger Market before it closed!! At our guides recommendation, we did enjoy our breakfast at the Centurion, next to the train station, before hopping on our train to Scotland.
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122gerdam
May 23, 2025
Excellent historical tour around Newcastle city centre and back streets. Rob was very humerus and informative. - Great tour guide who was very interesting and humorous. Learnt a lot about Newcastle City and loved the quirky stories Rob told us about.
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Malcolm_t
May 20, 2025
A Social History of Central Newcastle - Rob is a knowledgeable, friendly guide who is attentive to the needs of his tour group. He brought the history of Newcastle alive across the millennia in an informative and entertaining manner. Highly recommended.
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Tracyf172
May 10, 2025
Good Overview Tour - Tour guide is fun and informative, which makes for a good overview tour of the city of Newcastle. We both enjoyed it very much and would recommend.
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Anital449
May 4, 2025
Great guide! - Daniel was a repository of information and very knowledgeable that provided an excellent overview of the high points of Newcastle. I had no idea there was such a wealth of history within this delightful town. Daniel is an incredible guide!
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Stevewood59
Apr 30, 2025
Best tour by far - Tob was absolutely bar far the best guide we have ever had, his presentation was full of humour and masses of information. Just which we could have digested more. We would emphatically advise any visitor to go on this trip as even if you are a first time visitor like us or a past one, you will pick up so much knowledge from Rob so you can fully appreciate what a wonderful city Newcastle is.
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Chrismz8761ps
Apr 19, 2025
Highly recommended - Rob was incredibly knowledgeable and informative and really brought the city to life for us. He showed us some hidden parts as well as the well known and was great company as well.
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Roger_j
Apr 16, 2025
A real history buff - A great tour with a great guide Rob a history nerd (his words) Very informative and interesting, highly recommended
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From $41
up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).