Doctor Who Cardiff Locations Walking Tour

From Gallifrey to Wales, retrace the steps of your favourite Time Lord with the Doctor Who Cardiff Locations Walking Tour. Re-live some of the Doctor’s best adventures with this fun and informative stroll around a beautiful city!

Since returning to the screens in 2005, much of the filming of Doctor Who has been based in Cardiff. The production team have used the city’s buildings and settings to create numerous locations based on Earth and throughout the universe! With a Doctor Who expert as your guide, you will see the sites of over 30 memorable scenes on this tour.

From 20 per person

Highlights

  • Enter the church where the Donna Noble is kidnapped by the Doctor just before her wedding
  • See more than 30 Doctor Who filming locations used in the show since 2005
  • Stand where Clara speaks on her mobile phone to the Doctor (Matt Smith) in Deep Breath
  • Learn how Cardiff has been transformed into 1970's New York, ancient Pompeii, London and Paris, as well intergalactic locations

Tour details

  • Meeting point

    Please arrive 10 Minutes before departure at the entrance of Cardiff Castle, Castle St, Cardiff CF10 3RB

  • Tour departs

    Saturday at 1:00 pm on 24. Oct. 2020
    Select Saturdays at 1:00 pm (Apr 2021 – Oct 2021)

  • Tour ends

    Cardiff City Centre

  • Duration

  • Where

  • Live guide speaks

  • Travel by

  • Tour type

  • Max group size

    20 persons

  • Tour operator

  • Cancellation policy

    24 hours or more before start: full refund less 5% booking fees.
    After that time or no-show: no refund.

  • Exclusions

    Gratuities (optional)

  • Things to bring

    Appropriate clothing
    Comfortable shoes

  • Film series

  • Trademarks

    Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures (and related titles and characters) are trademarks of the BBC. All rights reserved by the BBC.

  • Disclaimer

    This is an independent, unofficial tour of public locations featured in the BBC’s Doctor Who television series. It is not connected with, or licensed or endorsed by, the BBC in any way, and does not include access to any official Doctor Who sets or props.

Full description

Doctor Who Cardiff Locations Walking Tour
Doctor Who Cardiff Locations Walking Tour

Locations throughout Cardiff have appeared in over 20 Doctor Who episodes!

However, many of these play the role of other parts of the world (and other worlds). One of these is St. John’s Church in Cardiff City Centre. In the episode The Runaway Bride, it doubled as St. Mary’s Church in Chiswick, where Donna Noble has her wedding. Unfortunately, her plans are derailed when, as she walks down the aisle, the TARDIS abducts her.

This tour also makes a stop at Cardiff Castle. This 2,000-year-old fortress regularly acts as a venue for events and concerts. But for Doctor Who, and the spin-off show Torchwood, it offered the perfect backdrop for many different episodes. Most notably you can see it in the series 6 two-parter The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People, and the Christmas special The Snowmen. The Blaidd Drwg project also nearly destroyed it in the episode Boom Town. Thankfully Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor put a stop to that!

You’ll also get to visit one of the first filming locations to feature in the rebooted Doctor Who: House of Fraser on St. Mary’s Street. The exterior of this building was used to create Henrik’s, the department store where Rose Tyler works in the Ninth Doctor’s very first episode. That is until the Doctor blows it up to rid it of an Auton threat.

Doctor Who Cardiff Locations Walking Tour
Doctor Who Cardiff Locations Walking Tour

And there are plenty of other locations throughout the Cardiff that you will have the chance to get up close and personal with. Like the road where a milk float hits and kills Danny Pink. Or the National Museum of Wales, which has been used to create scenes in many places, on many planets.

The Doctor Who Cardiff Locations Walking Tour not only brings you through ONE amazing city. It is an opportunity for all Whovians to explore scenes from New York, ancient Pompeii, London, Paris, and all manner of intergalactic settings. And you don’t even need a TARDIS to do it!

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