Tours of Colchester: Explore Britain’s First City with a Recognized Guide
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220 Ratings
Essex
Explore Colchester, Britain's first city, with a recognized guide. Choose from 6 engaging tours and discover 2000 years of history, including exclusive access to city landmarks.
Duration:
1 hour, 30 minutes
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Colchester - Britain’s first City comes its newest, another milestone of in the 2000 year history of Colchester.\n\nDiscover how the industrial revolution changed the face of Colchester.\n\nFrom the opportunity and wealth it gave to some, and the abject poverty it gave to others.\nSee \’Jumbo\’ the largest water tower in Britain, the Town Hall in all its splendor, how the Victorians entertained themselves in the pubs and theatres. And marvel at the feats of engineering around the City. Discover their legacy and how it impacts us today.
What's Included
- Entertaining and informative guided tours
What's Not Included
- Parking fees
Additional Information
Select from 6 distinctive journeys.
Your Own City Tour
Spirits and Sorceresses Tour
Roman Journey
Victorian Era Tour
Fortress Campus Tour
Civil Conflict Siege Tour
Upon securing your spot, you’ll be reached to cement the tour choice and assign the desired time.
Explore Colchester, the first ever City of Britain, and also its latest. Uncover 2000 years of past carried by Romans, Saxons, Normans and numerous more.
The tours are led by a fully certified guide recognized by the Colchester Council and a proud member of The Colchester Tourist Guide Association (CTGA).
Find out why they settled here, their prolonged stay and the remains they left us.
Privileged access to city landmarks including a Roman theatre is given.
Absorb the extraordinary past of Britain’s inaugural City in a charismatic and enlightening fashion.
The tours we provide are:
Your Own City Tour
Spirits and Sorceresses Tour
Roman Journey
Victorian Era Tour
Fortress Campus Tour
Civil Conflict Siege Tour
Location
Colchester War Memorial
High Street
The War Memorial is situated at the Main Gates to Castle Park.
The nearest Car Park is All Saints Car park and a larger Car park at Greyfriars hotel behind it, both are pay and display.
exit to the main road and walk up 100 meters to the Memorial
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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498bobw
Mar 18, 2024
Historic Colchester - Great in depth knowledge, good humoured and likeable bloke, informative and enlightening tour, definitely recommendes.
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Martinlh2770ep
Mar 17, 2024
Superb tour really fascinating - Ray gave an absolutely fabulous tour. Full of interesting facts he really brought history to life. He really knows his history, the contextual information made it clear he wasn't just working from a learned script. I can't recommend this highly enough.
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Toolaw
Mar 16, 2024
Recommend going - So good! My best friend was down visiting me and my dad from uni and it was her first time in Colchester.
All three of us loved the tour.
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Danz2622gl
Mar 9, 2024
Great tour - Ray's knowledge of Colchester history is second to none, and he made the tour very engaging and fun. He is a natural story teller, and his passion for the subject shines through
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Leannebj5980db
Mar 8, 2024
Excellent!! - Excellent tour of Colchester with fascinating stories. Ray, the tour guide was very engaging and informative! Would highly reccomend and we will be trying some of the other tours he has on offer!
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Nigele800
Mar 3, 2024
What the Romans really did for us! - An outragously entertaining and fasciniating journey through the history of Colchester and Roman life, and how the Roman Empire still influences our lives today.
Ray's enthusiasm and knowledge carried us back two millennia to discover the reality and harshness of daily life.....unless ofcourse you were a Roman or someone of importance! The tour transports you from before the arrivial of the Romans, the changes following their occupation and eventual departure, the arrival of the Normans, then onward to the English Civil War, eventually bringing you back to the present day and how the Romans had an influence on the Space Shuttle.
This tour is highly recommended for all ages.
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847jessief
Feb 24, 2024
Roman tour of Colchester - Brilliant tour of a town I’ve lived in my whole life but never realised quite how much was there our 2 girls (8 & 10years) really enjoyed it as it made there Roman topic at school come to life
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Sharonju9244hm
Feb 23, 2024
A wonderful mix of spooky tales and history. - Ray was extremely knowledgeable and entertaining, you can clearly tell that he has a passion for what he does. The evenings walk was a wonderful mix of spooky tales and the history behind them and the tour was rounded off with a visit to the amazing Red Lion Hotel, So glad we chose to do this on our first visit to Colchester. Would love to come back and do the other tours on offer.
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733janise
Feb 23, 2024
A Great Walking Tour of Colchester - We did the tour with Ray and had a wonderful time. He is very knowledgable about Colchester and history and we would thoroughly recommend him and his tour.
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Guide21558415212
Feb 16, 2024
Ghost Tour - It was really informative, funny and in places very spooky! Especially the ending, which I was not expecting. Thank you for a lovely evening
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