Chester Tour Company’s Viking Tours is returning to Chester this summer with a bigger team of guides. The tours explore the Age of the Vikings who settled in the city over 1,000 years ago and were frequently at odds with their Anglo-Saxon neighbours.
The tours, which feature costumed guides dressed as a fighter or a Shield Maiden, leave from Chester Town Hall Visitor Information Centre and take visitors to locations associated with the invaders from across the North Sea. Everyone taking part in the tour will receive a replica Viking coin as a memento of their trip.
The guided walk is run by The Guild of Ghost Hunters Ltd, who run the highly popular Chester Ghost Tours. Its director, Gerald Tattum says, “We are delighted to be bringing back this exciting tour with a much bigger team of guides that includes a historian, an archaeologist, experienced guides and re-enactors. We have all worked hard to ensure the content is accurate as well as entertaining, providing an authentic historical experience’.
Group tours are available, which can be combined with educational workshops for schools in partnership with St John’s Church by the Amphitheatre, as the building features some Viking artefacts. Tours depart at 11.15am and 3.15pm on Saturdays, from June to October.
Tickets for the tours are bookable at Chester Visitor Information Centre at the Town Hall and at www.vikingchester.com.
