Walking tours of Edinburgh, the best city in Scotland
Looking for a free walking tour which is independent, local, and authentic? You have come to the right website.
Edinburgh Street Historians provides walking tours unlike any other with professional tour guides experienced in acting, academics, teaching, and comedy. Our team of passionate guides will show you the city that others miss – a beautiful and vital city which helped to shape the modern world.
Most tours we offer are Free Walking Tours / Pay What You Think It’s Worth because we believe in people being able to see this amazing example of human heritage regardless of where they are from.
To add to all this, we have a great range of recommendations, a range of articles that are 100% human written with human-created pictures. Fundamentally we think it shows respect to our guests that everything we do is done by people, for people. We do not do intrusive ads anywhere on this site because we are all about offering accessible walking tours and great travel tips. If you’d like to see our glowing reviews prior to booking, feel free to consult them here or look at our testimonials section below.
Testimonials – What People Say About Us
“Fraser was amazing!!! Very passionate and informative! Great at projecting and the speed was perfect!”
– Delighted on the Old Town Tour
“Incredible experience! Very enjoyable for history nerds & anyone interested in finding the Edinburgh LGBTQ community. Also Frazer (sic, it’s Fraser) had no problem with accommodating a wheelchair & last minute scheduling change.”
— Happy customer from LGBT tour
Superb Old Town Tour experience! Frasers passion for the forgotten stories, especially women and lgbtq+ related topics made the ‚regular‘ tour even better. His captivating storytelling and the fact that he seemed to know way more than he was able to fit into the time we had made this tour one of the best walking tours I have done so far. Thank you Fraser and i think we have to come back just to get to know Augie 🙌🏻
- T Keill
“Fun, informative and a fabulous introduction to a beautiful city and its delights. Do yourself a favour and book!”
– Anais Gscwind, Travel Writer
“We booked with street historians not knowing what to expect but we had the best time, the tour guide Fraser was knowledgeable, funny and most of all fun. If you’re looking for a tour that doesn’t stick to the boring corporate scripted tour then you should try these guys, we saw the quirkier side of Edinburgh and really had a great time!”
– Calum Horn
“It’s been really nice working with you and seeing a different way to approach tours”
– Elinor Flavell, tour guide on Forgotten Women’s tours
“Local, authentic, amazing!”
– Molshri Singh
“Had a great time with Fraser and Roisin on their respective Old Town and Forgotten Women tours. Very interesting and different, they give you an accurate picture of Edinburgh across ages and highlight relevant historical events and characters that are not often talked about. It’s also very cool how they relate it with the present-day city situation, all explained in an informal, funny and close manner. Either if you’re local or from abroad, that’s definitely the tour you want to be in, really recommend it!”
Oriol Perera
Walking tours of Edinburgh
The basic idea of the Edinburgh Street Historians is that we are several tour guides who run exceptional tours of Edinburgh. These are unlike most of those you’ll find on the Royal Mile or elsewhere in Edinburgh. Our reviews and testimonials prove this. In addition, we have some seasonal specials which other tour operators do not really do, and we have some tours which focus on locations other guides simply ignore. Want to book one? Check them all out here.
The Street Historians way is to offer great free walking tours on the basis of Pay What You Think it’s Worth. Want to know more about it? Read here.
Perhaps you are trying to organise your trip to Edinburgh and you’re wondering where to find the best recommendations? This is absolutely the spot for you. Our recommendations has had years of work put into it and you could plan your entire visit around it.
The Meadows Tour!
Saturdays
10am – 11am
This is a tour which no one else does, a tour of Southside Edinburgh’s gorgeous Meadows! This large green park space has a fascinating history as well as a great natural landscape.
Hear how modern Edinburgh was shaped by its environment and how it still continues to affect the people here to this day! This walk is a perfect getaway from the hustle and bustle of the city centre.
This tour is ideal for photographers and those with dogs. It is also very accessible as the paths are quite flat.
Get Your Picture Taken, Picturesque Tour
Various times, available for private tours
Why leave your holiday pictures to chance or a mobile phone?
With this tour, Dan Chiu-Lezeau shows you the city of Edinburgh in a way which celebrates our architecture, history, and monuments. Additionally, he’ll take several pictures of them and professionally edit them so you can have amazing holiday photos you’ll remember forever.
For a short time, these are being offered Pay As You Want but as so much additional time goes into the editing process, this is a short time offer so book now!
Feel free to message below if you have any questions, requests or queries. Private tours are available for groups at competitive rates
Edinburgh Street Historians