Gloucester Audio Tour: No More Twist

Name: Gloucester Audio Tour: No More Twist
Brand: AudaTours
Price: 2.99 USD
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Gloucester's spires, cloisters and dockside warehouses belong to the history books. The streets between them belong to a different city — the medieval stonemasons who invented fan vaulting under plague conditions, the tailor who finished a mayor's waistcoat by candlelight and pinned a note saying 'no more twist', the newspaper printer who started the Sunday School movement, the pin-wire workers at the Westgate bench who once employed one in five of the city's population, the Augustinian canons dispersed with a year's pension, the corn-porters who hauled grain to the top of Llanthony Warehouse, and the watermen whose trows ran salt and timber on the Severn before the canal cut them out. These are the working people who kept Gloucester going — and whose names rarely made it onto the plaques.

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About this tour

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Duration 80–100 minsGo at your own pace
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3.5 km walking routeFollow the guided path
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LocationGloucester, United Kingdom
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Starts at Eastgate Viewing Chamber, Eastgate Street, Gloucester

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Eastgate Viewing ChamberA viewing chamber beneath the pavement of Eastgate Street reveals the remains of the Roman east gate of Glevum — the Roman colonia founded around AD 96-98 — together with the base of a medieval gate tower and a Tudor horse-pool. The Roman street grid of which this was the eastern terminus still defines Gloucester's city centre today.

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Robert Raikes's HouseA timber-framed merchant's house built in 1560, used from 1758 as the offices of the Gloucester Journal by Robert Raikes, newspaper printer and founder of the Sunday School movement. Raikes took over the paper from his father in 1757 and used it to publicise his educational experiment — inspired by a walk through the city's ragged working-class streets. Behind him in the print shop, a compositor in his workshop was setting the type that would spread the idea nationally.

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The Cross, GloucesterThe historic centre of Gloucester's medieval market, at the crossroads of the four main Roman streets. The upper part of Westgate Street was the main market place from the mid-12th century, flanked by mercers' and beltmakers' shops to the north and butchers' shambles to the south. The Boothall, a little further west, was being used for the sale of leather by the 13th century and wool by the late 14th.

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The New Inn HotelGrade I listed pub in Gloucester, England

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College CourtA narrow medieval lane running from Westgate Street to the Cathedral's St Michael's Gate, lined with timber-framed buildings. Number 9 College Court is the building Beatrix Potter chose as the setting for The Tailor of Gloucester. The real tailor, John Prichard, worked at 45 Westgate Street; his assistants finished a mayor's waistcoat in the night and pinned a note to the unfinished buttonhole: 'no more twist.'

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Gloucester CathedralThe Great Cloister, north of the nave, contains the earliest surviving fan vaulting in England. Built in the late 14th century, the very earliest section dates from the 1350s and shows experimental stonework — medieval masons working out, stone by stone, a structural form no one had ever built before. The master mason Robert Lesyngham is credited with beginning the other three walks from 1381.

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Is this a guided group tour?

No - this is a self-guided audio tour. You explore independently at your own pace, with audio narration playing through your phone. No tour guide, no group, no schedule.

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Most tours take 60–90 minutes to complete, but you control the pace entirely. Pause, skip stops, or take breaks whenever you want.

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