A woman with glasses, a black top hat and shawl looking out from behind a dark-colored building wall, with a blurred menu board outside in the background.

Madame Peculiar’s daytime Whitby walking tours

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Our Weird and Wonderful Whitby walking tours run (almost) all year round and cover Whitby’s little-known underside, where history and folklore come together to give an alternative insight into this fascinating and important little town. Madame Peculiar will take you on a journey across a thousand years of Whitby history in her own quirky and mischievous style.

Madame Peculiar’s Whitby Walking Tour is perfect for:

  • First-time Whitby visitors and many-time Whitby visitors

  • Locals and visitors from faraway lands

  • History buffs and people who hated history at school

  • Goths and Non-Goths

  • The spiritual and the sceptical

  • People who don’t do steps

  • Children and dogs

Weird and Wonderful Whitby tour reviews

“Absolutely fantastic tour with Madame Peculiar. Have done several of the Ghost tours and fancied something different. Had a great time.”
— Brett K
“For a 945-year old, Madame Peculiar is on tip-top form! She’s also a smidge cheeky! I LOVED this tour! It was inclusive, interesting and full of lots of unusual juicy tidbits. Do not get it twisted, this is NOT a ghost tour. It is a proper living breathing history / peculiarity tour! I was so taken with the stories - are they true? Did it happen? Ask Madame P to find out!”
— Lip Venom
“Lovely way to spend an hour or so, would recommend this to families too!”
— citybreaksafavourite
“What an excellent way to spend an hour! Being seasoned visitors to Whitby, we were sceptical that we would discover much. How wrong we were. Highly recommended.”
— JackieK
“We found the storytelling engaging, humorous and insightful. We have fallen in love with Whitby and your tour was definitely part of that attraction.”
— David and Pam
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