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Welcome to Newcastle City Guides website.
We are a group of enthusiastic, well-trained volunteers who, with NewcastleGateshead Initiative, share a passion for the history, heritage and culture of our great city.
The links below highlight our entertaining and fully researched historical walks around Newcastle, Gateshead and surrounding areas.
To keep up to date with our activity, sign up here for regular information.
For more information please contact us by email: info@ngi.org.uk
View the Newcastle Association of City Guides Access Statement online, or download the Newcastle Association of City Guides Access Statement as a PDF (Adobe reader required).
Click on each link to discover more about our range of walking tours for the coming season.
CITY HIGHLIGHTS DAILY WALKING TOURS
This walk is an ideal introduction to Newcastle, its history and culture.
NEWCASTLE CITY GUIDES - SEASON TICKETS
Season tickets offer access to over 40 different heritage walks throughout the year, as well as the City Highlights tours which run daily during the summer. The tickets cost £30 for adults and £25 for concessions. Season tickets make a fantastic gift for anyone interested in the history, heritage and culture of NewcastleGateshead.
NEWCASTLE CITY GUIDES: CITY TOURS 2017 BROCHURE
Download the City Tours 2017 brochure, or read online.
These detailed walks provide fascinating facts and stories about historical events in Newcastle, Gateshead and surrounding areas
Climb the 164 steps of this monument in the centre of the city and let Newcastle City Guides show you the sights.
As part of this annual event in September we will be leading additional walking tours.
If you’ve ever thought “I’d like to do that”, then here’s some things you ought to know.
Looking for something a bit different? Experience the sounds of a wartime air raid and, follow a guide underground to discover Victoria Tunnel's role as a colliery waggonway. Tours run regularly throughout the year. See the Victoria Tunnel website for tour times.
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Daily walking tour which offers a fascinating introduction to the history and culture of our wonderful city.
Newcastle upon Tyne
Meet at Newcastle end of Swing Bridge. Finish St. Thomas' Church, Haymarket.
From the site of the Chapel of St. Thomas on the medieval bridge, to its early Victorian replacement at Barras Bridge, this walk visits several sites of religious...
Low Fell
Meet and finish at the junction of Belle Vue Bank and Durham Road, Low Fell (opposite the New Cannon).
Discover how a pitman, an enterprising publican and the development of a new road changed Low Fell from an area of desolate waste to a...
Newcastle upon Tyne
Take a tour of Newcastle's iconic Grey's Monument this Spring. During 2017, Grey's Monument will be open for scheduled public tours on the first Saturday of each month.
Newcastle upon Tyne
Meet at St. Thomas' Church, Haymarket. Finish at Grainger Market.
This is a walk about Newcastle in times of conflict, not just in the Great War but throughout the centuries. Join us to remember the fallen, as well as some of those who survived.
Tynemouth
Meet and finish at Queen Victoria's statue on the village green near Tynemouth Metro Station.
Stroll down the centuries in this historic coastal village to hear the stories of seafarers and saints, inhabitants and invaders of old Tynemouth on...
Newcastle upon Tyne
Meet at Cardinal Hume's Monument, St. Mary's Cathedral. Finish at St Nicholas Cathedral.
This walk celebrates 250 years since Bewick, one of Tyneside's most famous sons, arrived in Newcastle to begin his apprenticeship with Ralph Beilby, and...
South Shields
Meet and finish at South Shields Metro Station.
Join our re-named walk around the centre of South Shields and the riverside. Sitting at the mouth of the Tyne, South Shields has a long history from Roman times to the modern day. Strong links to...
Gateshead
Meet and finish at Shipley Art Gallery, Prince Consort Road (NE8 4JB).
Take part in a new walk for 2017! To celebrate the Centenary of the Shipley Art Gallery, which was built during World War 1, this walk around the Shipcote area of Gateshead,...
Gosforth
Meet at the corner of High Street and Moor Road South. Finish at All Saints Church.
Enjoy a stroll around Gosforth, looking at many of the great houses, remembering when this was the place for the seriously rich to live.
The latest edition of the Newcastle City Guides City Tours brochure
Climb the 164 steps of this monument in the centre of the city and let Newcastle City Guides show you the sights.
This walk is an ideal introduction to Newcastle, its history and culture.
As part of this annual event in September we will be leading additional walking tours. Watch this space for further details.
If you’ve ever thought “I’d like to do that”, then here’s some things you ought to know.
These detailed walks provide fascinating facts and stories about historical events in Newcastle, Gateshead and surrounding areas
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