Welcome to Terrible Tours

At Terrible Tours we think the best way to learn is to laugh. And that’s usually about stories and people rather than architecture and dates, and above all about what’s odd, funny, grisly, or smelly and generally revolting! Our walking tours of Cambridge and walking tours of Norwich are uniquely entertaining and genuinely funny, but don’t take our word for it – check out our 5 star TripAdvisor ratings here.

Yes, Cambridge is home to one of the world’s greatest Universities, but it’s about much more than that. Rank Romans, scary Saxons, vile Vikings and nasty Normans all came here long before the first scallywag student ever did. It’s alive with stories (and ghosts!).

Norwich too is brimming with history - from its mighty Norman castle to medieval markets and haunted alleyways. Our Nasty Norwich History Tour and Nightmare Norwich Ghost Tour reveal the city’s colourful past with humour, enthusiasm, and just the right dose of the grisly.

And while our founder is a proper full-on history bore and studied at Cambridge University as a student, luckily for you all of our tour guides are experienced entertainers. Our aim is to make your experience of both cities as fun, immersive, and above all memorable, as possible.

So if you want someone to spend ten minutes explaining (often in monotones) the difference between a Gothic and a Tudor arch, or give you the specific year and month each College chapel was completed, then we are NOT for you! Please go to one of the many other Cambridge or Norwich walking tour businesses that can do just that for you.

But if you’re actually wanting a walk around our historic cities that you’ll enjoy so much you’ll wish it lasted longer – rather than counting down the minutes till it’s over, we really hope you’ll try us out. And when you have, we hope you’ll agree we’re terrible. But in a good way.