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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
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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 2018 BROCHURE
Download the City Tours 2018 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
An early 19th century development, Summerhill is a delightful but little-known backwater. Come and explore this hidden area, home to some of Newcastle’s prominent Quaker families.
North Shields
This walk remembers the lives of several local people including a Dame of the British Empire, a brave young man who won the George Medal and a pioneering journalist who went down with the Titanic.
Gosforth
Enjoy a stroll around Gosforth looking at many of the great houses and remembering when this was the place for the seriously rich to live.
Quayside Newcastle
A circular walk around the Quayside with ghost stories, witches, bodies fished out of the river and murders on both sides of the Tyne.
Newcastle upon Tyne
Discover why Irish refugees fleeing the 1845 Potato Famine were welcomed on Tyneside and examine the part played by Tyneside Irish Nationalists seeking an Independent Ireland.
Newcastle upon Tyne
The name ‘Wallsend’ has links to the Romans and Segedunum. This walk remembers former great industries and some of the local ‘heroes’ from the town
Newcastle upon Tyne
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 significance.
Newcastle upon Tyne
Booking Essential
Do you dare join us at Halloween for this popular walk? Who will we bump into on our route around haunted Newcastle?
Newcastle upon Tyne
This is a walk about Newcastle in time 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.
The latest edition of the Newcastle City Guides City Tours brochure
As part of this annual event in September we will be leading additional walking tours. Watch this space for further details.
This walk is an ideal introduction to Newcastle, its history and culture.
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.
If you’ve ever thought “I’d like to do that”, then here’s some things you ought to know.
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