We are licensed and insured to guide up to 50 passengers per guide.

Bespoke coach tours, walking tours, lectures, slide shows, treasure hunts and comedy ghost walks.

Our speciality areas are Windsor (including the castle), Henley, Marlow and the Thames Valley but we are also qualified to guide elsewhere in the Southern Tourist Board area encompassing Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Dorset & Hampshire.

Rates vary according th the type of tour and time of day which you require.

WALKING TOUR IDEAS:

WINDSOR TOWN WALK

This walk is for anyone wishing to get a nice, tidy overview of Windsor, without having to read an entire guide book! We give an overview of Windsor's history, delve into town life, explain the pageantry, the army and the influence of the royal family. We also touch on the importance of the river, its traditions, including swan upping and cover comic tales and anecdotes concerning some of the famous people who have lived here.

MEDIAEVAL WINDSOR

Windsor has a very colourful history, the Mediaeval period being prominent. It was the time when the longbow reigned supreme and the castle became the stone fortress that we know today.  Hear tales of kings, playwrites, poets and ordinary people who lived during those times and helped to shape Windsor and the nation.

WINDSOR'S PUBS AND PEOPLE

Windsor has a large number of pubs and hostelries but few visiting them know the vast history that lies behind such establishments. Weaving our way through town, we stop at pubs with an interesting and colourful history, as well as many shops and restaurants familiar to all that started life as alehouses many centuries ago.

SOLDIERS AND SIEGES IN WINDSOR

With its castle and two barracks, Windsor's present and past are inextricably linked with the lives of soldiers. This walk incorporates stories from the early castle days, when local unrest and sieges were typical, to civil war, to foreign wars where disease became an unexpected adversary. We also touch on pageantry and the way the Household Division has a special place in our hearts.

TUDOR WINDSOR

This walk incorporates stories which range from the building of various sections of the castle and the chapel to the Tudors' activities in the forest, what went on in the market place and the schools and how Shakespeare came to town to write The Merry Wives of Windsor.

GEORGIAN WINDSOR

This walk covers the area around the central train station, the Long Walk, Batchelor's Acre and bits in between! The focus is on the Hanoverian kings' influence on Windsor, what happened here during their reigns and also their personal activities and interests here.

VICTORIAN WINDSOR

This walk extends outwards from the central train station, towards the barracks, the garrison church and the well-hidden Prince Consort Cottages.  Learn how Windsor expanded under the reign of Queen Victoria and the benefits the railway brought to town. Hear about the celebrations for Queen Victoria's jubilee and what additions she made to the castle, as well as about the role of the Household Division in Windsor.

HENLEY TOWN WALK

Whilst gently strolling through town, learn about Henley’s evolution from simple riverside village to the centre of a tug-of-war during the Civil War, to thriving coaching interchange, to rowing Mecca.  Walk includes details on Leander Club and the history of the famous regatta.

**** ONLY AVAILABLE UNTIL 18TH APRIL 2010: ****

(Available for groups only)

QUINCENTENARY HENRY
A tour exploring his life, loves and legendary court at Windsor

2009 saw the 500th anniversary of one of our most famous monarchs Henry VIII becoming King in 1509 aged just 17 years old.  To mark this momentous event a special Henry VIII Tour taking in town and castle was conceived by 4 local Blue Badge guides for groups, coinciding with and ending at the Henry VIII anniversary exhibition in the Drawings Gallery of Windsor Castle.

Starting in the town itself, groups will hear about his hunting and hawking expeditions in Windsor Great Park, his banquets with up to 30 courses including ‘flaming swans and porpoise in armour’ and his grand processions through the town on Garter Day.  Groups will then enter Windsor Castle to see where Henry’s royal tennis court was situated, how he created the North Terrace and from there into St George’s Chapel, the spiritual home of the Order of the Garter.  It is here that Henry is buried with his third and favourite wife Jane Seymour and it is in this place that stories abound:  how he was created a Knight of the Garter aged just 4 years old, how a special viewing gallery was created for his first wife Catherine of Aragon to watch Garter services and how he sent five Knights of the Garter to their executions at the Tower of London.  Finally in the Chapel, the story of Henry’s funeral and how his coffin was so heavy that it had to be lowered into the royal vault by 16 soldiers ‘of exceptional height and strength’!

The tour will finish at the Drawings Gallery so that groups can visit the exhibition at their leisure.

Tours can be booked for any day between 1st January and 18th April 2010 when the exhibition is open, except on Sundays when St George’s Chapel is closed to tourist visits.

Book your tour by phoning 07770 933117 or 01628 828279 or Email us