York Walls Private Walking Tour: Personalized, Compliance with Social Distancing Rules

Experience a personalized and socially distanced walking tour of York’s famous city walls. Explore at your own pace with a private guide, and enjoy food and drink along the way.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • York City Walls - The walls of York have a rich and bloodthirsty history stretching back nearly 2000 years. Whilst free to walk on, visitors can often leave the city having missed out on discovering the secrets of the walls, and the city they have protected for so long. These personalised tours provide a totally unique, bespoke and entertaining…
What's Included
  • Tour escort/host
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off (by foot, city centre hotels only)
What's Not Included
  • Entrance fees (2 small museums located around the walls are available for entry separately)
  • Food and drinks
Additional Information

Your own personalized tour guide, taking you on a spectacular trip round the world famous city walls! You are provided a unique guided tour experience - you will be picked up at your hotel, or in town at a place of your choosing, at a time to suit you. You will be taken around the walls, no big groups to tag along with or time schedules to keep, and…

Location
Roman Column
Minster Yard
Outside York Minster near the entrance to the gift shop is the Roman Column. Its easy to find and right in the centre of town, a great place to meet!
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Terri_m
Jul 12, 2025
York tour - John, our guide, was terrific. He was personable and very knowledgeable. It felt like we were having a conversation rather than being lectured to - interactive and fun!
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The_atomic
Jul 6, 2025
Phenomenal, passionate stories of the history of York and its walls! - Our family of five with three teens thoroughly enjoyed this tour! Was even better than expected. Was seeking an understanding of the walls and adjacent structures and their history and got that and more. John our tour guide really knows a lot of facts and better yet how to bring history to life, explaining how history is actually written and what life was like for the locals during their eras throughout time in York. John is what you wish all your high school history teachers would have been like, bringing stories alive with a Steve Irwin or Bear Grylls-like passion! We all agreed he was the best of all our similar tour guides of our trip through the UK. Super easy and responsive communication when scheduling. Highly recommend!
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Lottaad
Jul 4, 2025
City to come back to many times - Amazing city, however extremely much tourists in late June. Has previously been to York in the autumn, significantly less people in the city.
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Richards_p
Oct 29, 2024
An Amazing tour!! - Our guide John was amazing, very very knowledgable of York and British history and he made the whole experience very enjoyable and interesting, highly recommended!!
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Seaydot
Oct 13, 2024
Walking the York Walls - We walked most of the existing walls around York. Beautiful views!!! There are a lot of steps and no provisions for handicapped.Well worth the time!
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Mwwildcatfan
Oct 12, 2024
Best walking tour we have taken - What a fun and informative walking tour. Unlike any we have experienced. Our guide, John, was funny and so filled with unique facts. His deep understanding of York history made our stay here far more enjoyable. Highly recommend!!!
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Michael_s
Oct 8, 2024
Walk with John! - John is a wonderful guide. Lots of great info and very friendly. Highly recommend John and this tour.
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Safari16761515630
Oct 7, 2024
Really pleasant walk - It was a fine sunny day, not too hot snd the walk around the city walls was so pleasant and relaxing. It's not at all strenuous and you get to see York for a different and interesting aspect.
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422dancem
Sep 30, 2024
Nice walk - The first thing time visiting here since moving to the area. Lots of sights to see and a good day out my family really enjoyed the trip
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Rainb0wsh0es
Jul 29, 2025
On A High - Wanted to experience walking on parts of the walls that surround the city centre of York. These walls are high, around 4 metres in height, and less than 2 metres across, and mainly do not have hand rails or anything to prevent you falling off onto the deep sloping grassy banks, so you really have to be careful up there! There were a fair few people walking on the walls when I was there in late July, and passing by each other at that height takes some careful footing! There are gaps in the walls at various intervals, where you can get off via the stairs if you want to. Not an activity for kids, - too risky! Would not even attempt this on a rainy or frosty day either!
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From $66
up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).