Private Guided Tours of Leeds
Tours of Leeds runs private, guided heritage tours of the city — led by Leeds-born guide Mike Hampshire and built around your group. Every tour is bespoke and quoted per tour for the guide’s time, not per head. Tell us what you have in mind and we’ll send a tailored quote.
Bespoke group experiences, priced per tour.
Just your group, a guide who has researched every stop from the original archives, and a route shaped around what you want to see. No fixed dates to work around and no public ticket queue — you enquire, we quote, you book.
Choose your tour
Three tours, each private to your group and customisable on request.
The Leeds Heritage Pub Tour
Three centuries of Leeds pub and brewing history across some of the city’s most characterful pubs. Around 3.5 hours, drinks included, over-18s.
The Essential Leeds City Centre Tour
The buildings, people and stories that shaped Leeds, from City Square to the Corn Exchange. A 90-minute guided walk through the heart of the city.
The Leeds Waterfront Heritage Tour
Leeds’ industrial heart, from Marshall’s Mill to Leeds Dock — canals, mills and the waterways that built the city. A 90-minute guided walk.
Meet your guide
Every Tours of Leeds tour is led by Mike Hampshire — Leeds-born, Secretary of the British Guild of Beer Writers and former Chair of CAMRA Leeds, with a background in the city’s pubs and breweries. He researches every tour himself from original archives, so you get Leeds history first-hand.
What groups say
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We had a private tour with Mike for a group of 12 of us on a Saturday afternoon. Mike was fantastically knowledgeable and a great host for us all. Everyone was delighted with the afternoon. Highly recommend if you are in the Leeds area and looking for something unique!
Nick via Google
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Mike took a group of ten of us on the Heritage Pub & Brewery Tour. It was a fantastic tour and we really enjoyed it – a great selection of pubs and local beers, mixed with lots of interesting social history / trivia about beer drinking in Leeds, pitched just at the right level for our group. For anyone interested in Leeds’s beer heritage, this is for you
Thomas via Google
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Our group thoroughly enjoyed our tour. It was great that Mike could change the meeting and finishing points to suit our day. They were fascinating by the history of the city and his knowledge. Great fun!
Trudy via Google