Audio guides along England’s longest waymarked path — Tintagel’s split headland, the engine houses above the cliffs at Wheal Coates, the light at Godrevy that Virginia Woolf watched from the shore, the vast dunes of Braunton Burrows. Written for walking, and they play in flight mode when the signal goes over the cliff edge.
The narration plays in the free app and nowhere else. Every script is free to read here.
Not a museum handset and not a scraped encyclopedia entry. 47 scripts written for the South West Coast Path, and built to work where there is no signal.
Every guide is an original script, researched site by site and written for the ear — never lifted off a webpage. Where you are standing, what to look for, and the one story worth carrying away with you.
These are scripts, not articles. One image at a time, paced for walking, so you can keep your eyes on the path and the ground under your boots and still take every word in.
Walk into range of a site and the guide begins on its own. No hunting through a menu with the sun on the screen, a pack on your back and gloves on your hands.
Download once on wifi and the whole library plays in flight mode — down in a gorge, out on a ridge, at the far end of the trail where nothing has a single bar of reception.
Three steps, and the last one is just walking.
Free on iPhone and Android. Scan the code above, or tap through — it works out which store you need.
Open Downloads, tap Audio Guides, choose your language. The whole library lands on the phone while you still have wifi.
Reach a site and the guide starts by itself — or press play whenever you like. The full script is on screen too, if you would rather read.
Tap any pin to listen.
Every site on the South West Coast Path that has a guide. Open any one to read the complete script — free, no account, in every language it was written in. Each carries a code that opens that guide in the app, which is the only place the audio plays.
Listen to multiple guides and the catalogue starts working as a single piece. Three stories thread through it.
Wheal Coates (the iconic engine house above Chapel Porth) → Geevor (a working tin mine into the 1990s, now a museum) → Botallack & Levant (the Crowns engine houses clinging to the cliff face, and the beam engine still running on steam). Cornwall's UNESCO-listed mining world, told in three stops.
Tintagel Castle (where legend places King Arthur's conception) → St Michael's Mount (the giant Cormoran and the archangel's apparition) → Old Harry Rocks (chalk stacks that carry the devil's own nickname). The path's legends, from Cornwall to the Purbeck finish.
By tradition you dip your boots in the Bristol Channel beside the giant map sculpture at Minehead — and again in the English Channel when you finally reach the marker at South Haven Point, 630 miles later. Two guides bookend the walk.
The first words you hear when you reach Tintagel Castle.
The wind hits you first. You are standing on a headland that is half mainland, half island, split by a deep chasm with the sea churning far below, and clinging to the rock on both sides are the broken grey walls of a castle. A slender footbridge spans the gap. This is Tintagel, and few places in England wear their legends so heavily, or so well.Tintagel Castle: Castle of Kings and Legends · read the whole guide →
The app is free, and until 1 October 2026 every one of the 47 narrated guides is free inside it. Open a free account before 1 October and the complete library stays yours permanently. Separately and always: the full written script of every guide is published free on this website, in every language it exists in.
Yes, completely. Download them over wifi before you set off and they play in flight mode — the audio, the script and the maps. That is the point: the places these guides describe are mostly where the signal is not.
English, with its own narrator throughout the library.
No. The app starts a guide automatically when you walk into range, which is how most people use them, but you can play any guide any time — on the plane, over breakfast, or at home while you plan.
Yes. Every script on this page is published in full and free to read, with no account and no app. The narration itself lives only in the app.
We do. Each guide is researched for its own site and written to a fixed shape — where you are standing, what to look for, the one human story worth carrying away — then checked against the archaeology and the local record. That is 47 original scripts for the South West Coast Path alone.
Yes. The catalogue below is sorted by stage, so you can see which guides fall on the stretch you are doing. Most people walk the Path in pieces over several years; the guides are built for exactly that.
Every guide on this page is narrated in the free South West Coast Walk app, and only there. This website is where you read and plan; the app is what you walk with.
Tell us your dates, difficulty, and what you need. We'll match tours, guides, accommodations, and transfers along the stages with audio guides.
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