Listening to a Discovery Audio Guide is like having your own personal local guide telling you about the area. Available on CD or by download, these professionally narrated guides are packed with fascinating and entertaining stories from local history and legend.

Each guide also includes our choice of the very best places to stay, eat, drink and visit, all of them carefully chosen to give you a real flavour of the area, and many of them well off the beaten track - the area's hidden gems.

Our guides can help you plan your trip from home, or their stories and music can entertain you as you drive around.

However well you think you know the area, we guarantee it won't be long before you're saying "Well, I didn't know THAT!"

Each Discovery Audio Guide covers a particular destination, such as Cumbria and The Lake District or The Yorkshire Dales.

Each track in a guide features one town or area and is self-contained, so you can choose which tracks to listen to and play them in any order.

The insert for the CD contains contact details of the places featured in the guide and a map showing their location. There are also links from this site to the websites of these places.

Click here to buy the guides either on CD or by downloading tracks in mp3 format.  

Do you know?

• Who was the Romanian inventor who helped the Allies to win the First World War?
• What was a Hawkshead whig and why did it contain caraway seeds?
• Where you can cruise on a solar powered boat?
• Which author was crucial in establishing the National Trust?

Find the answers by listening to the sample tracks from our Discovery Audio Guide to Cumbria and The Lake District

DISCOVER:

Magnificent castles

Great places to eat

Cosy tearooms

Welcoming hotels

Special B&Bs

We are developing new guides all the time. Use the tabs at the top of the page to find the one you want.

We hope you enjoy your trip!