Events & Seasonal Tours
The tourist guides run walks in association with major events in Winchester and on seasonal occasions.
These can be booked at the Tourist Information Centre in advance and purchased from the guide at the start of the walk, if available. Tickets cost £4.50 (Children £1)
Tours start from the Tourist Information Centre unless otherwise stated. Click here for a map of the location of the Tourist Infomation Centre.
Open Up & Lighten Up Winchester 11-26 September
Winchester City Council Event
| 18 September Thursday | 6 pm | Walk on the Wild Side
Tress & Shrubs of Winchester | >
| 25 September Thursday | 6 pm | Personalities of the Soke
Find out about some of the people associated with Winchester's eastern suburb. |
Tudors at the Westgate - 27 & 28 September
Winchester Museums Service Event
| 28 September Sunday | 2.30-3.30pm £4 & £1 | Tudor
Family Walk
Come and find out about Tudor Winchester and some of the characters who lived there. Suitable for all the family Meet outside Westgate Museum |
Halloween
| 31 October Friday | 6.30 pm 7.30 pm | Ghastly Goings-On
A Halloween feast of ghosts and other ghastly goings on. |
| 1 November Saturday | 6.30 pm 7.30 pm | Ghastly Goings-On
A Halloween feast of ghosts and other ghastly goings on. |
Christmas in Winchester through the Ages
2.30-3.30pm. Adults £4 Children £1
Starting at the Luminous Motion sculpture next to the City Museum
| Saturday 29 November | Sunday 30 November |
| Saturday 6 December | Sunday 7 December |
| Saturday 13 December | Sunday 14 December |
Past 2008 Tours
Watercress Festival 10-11 May
| May 10 Saturday | 2.30 pm | Alresford Town Tour Meet at Alresford railway station entrance |
Medieval Re-enactors at City Museum - Sunday June 1
| June 1Sunday | 2.30 pm | Family walk around Medieval Winchester Come and find out about medieval Winchester and some of the characters who lived there. Suitable for all the familyMeet utside City Museum |
Winchester Festival 4-13 July
| July 5Saturday | 3 pm | Jane Austen's Winchester Jane Austen died in Winchester in 1817. On this tour you will see some of the places in Winchester which she knew, hear about her life, and her sad early death. |
| July 8Tuesday | 6.30 pm | Winchester's French Connections Discover the links between Winchester and France ranging from Queens of the Realm to refugees, both formal and informal Meet utside City Museum |
| July 15Tuesday | 6.30 pm | Street Furniture Did you know that streets have furniture? If you would like to know more, come on a stroll around the streets of Winchester |
Hampshire Food Festival - July
| July 22Tuesday | 6.30 pm | Pub Walk 2 Come and partake of a drink in The Wykeham Arms, The Black Boy & The Bishop on The Bridge while hearing about their history. Price of drink not included in tour! Meet at War memorial outside west front of cathedral |