Self-guided audio walking tour by AudaTours through Barker's Pool and the High Street, with narrated stops at fifteen landmarks.
Sheffield Audio Tour: Iconic Heart starts at Barker's Pool on Tuesday 23 October, a self-guided walk through the city centre that you run entirely at your own pace. It's delivered by AudaTours via their app, so there's no in-person guide to keep up with — just you and your headphones. The whole thing takes around an hour and nine minutes, covering about 2.3 kilometres across fifteen stops, with up to 38 minutes of professionally narrated audio that kicks in automatically as you reach each landmark.
The route begins at Barker's Pool and takes you through the open-air spaces beneath the grand City Hall pillars and along the tram-rattled High Street, where local legends and scandals still linger. Along the way, the audio fills in the gaps: you'll hear what bell once signalled a deluge that sent pigs scrambling down Barker's Pool, what act of rebellion reduced Victoria Hall's earliest chapel to ashes in a single night, and who refused for twenty years to let Sheffield widen its beloved High Street.
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It's pitched at solo travellers, couples, families and small groups, and it works as well for first-time visitors as it does for those who've already seen the city's famous sights. One thing to keep in mind is that the tour doesn't include entry to any building or site along the route — you're taking in the landmarks from the street. The tour costs £4.99, and since it's all through the app, you can start and stop whenever you like.
