Stow-on-the-Wold Town Tour

Tour Details
Leave your guidebook behind and truly experience Stow-on-the-Wold!


This engaging and entertaining audio tour lets you travel back in time to imagine what life was like in Stow hundreds - even thousands - of years ago! Find out what the name means, hear about its many coaching inns, and be thankful that the town no longer uses swillies! This tour starts and ends at the stocks in the market square.


In this tour you'll hear about:
 Stow's Iron Age Fort & Roman Camp
The Geology of the Cotswolds
Medieval Markets & Fairs
 The Town's NameCoaching InnsSt. Edwards Hall
 The Lime Kiln
Stow's Crossroads
Tunnels Under Stow
 The Royalist
Stow Lodge
The Wells
 The Brewery
The Market Cross
The Crooked House
 SwilliesSt. Edward's Church
The Fosse Way
Download This Tour (£4.99)


Duration: 80 minutes    

Distance: 1 mile     

Level: Easy


Some roads do not have pavements and some walkways have steps. Pubs, Tea Rooms, Shopping, Public Toilets are available in town.

Hear an audio sample of the Town Tour:

TownTourExcerpt.mp3 Town Tour

iPod unit used for Walking Past audio tour hire. Photo credit: Cotswolds Observer

Downloading a Tour:

After you go through the PayPal checkout, click "return to merchant" to be directed to our download page. There you'll be able to download the entire tour to put onto your own mp3 player as well as a route map in PDF format.


All tours have been professionally recorded by engineer, producer, musician and composer George Shilling at his Bank Cottage Studio.


www.midnightstorytellers.co.ukYour narrator is Chloë of the Midnight Storytellers.  Feisty, funny and wickedly feminine, Chloë is a charismatic and original entertainer with mesmerising stage presence.


In cabaret, as a speciality act, and as an after dinner speaker she blends traditional storytelling with stand-up comedy. Her easy rapport and desert dry humour enchant audiences. She is the rebel raconteur of modern performance storytelling, a pioneer in spoken word entertainment.


See Chloë perform live! Check her calendar for upcoming dates and venues.



Take a tour today!


Simply download any tour to use on own audio player


If you have a Large Group please contact us for special rates.

Visitor Comments
We finished our tour a little while ago. It really was very good and we highly recommend it to anyone...There are a bunch of places we're going back to over the next week or so which we would not have seen otherwise. Awesome!"

Jenny and Bob, USA

25 Sept 2009

There were things in this tour that even I didn't know about Stow - and I've lived here most of my life!"

A long-time resident of Stow
August 2009