Tours

Since fully training six tour guides throughout August and September, we’ve had a turbulent time with our programme to say the least! Despite national restrictive measures throughout November, meaning no tours or other heritage activities could take place, we have managed to deliver eight bookable tours with COVID-19 guidelines fully in place. Numbers were restricted to ten per tour with a maximum of six bookings. Social distancing was enforced throughout household groups throughout. Across all eight tours the COVID-19 safety was rated at 4.8 out of 5 with safety being ranked as excellent.

100% of our visitors ranked the tours very good or excellent, with our tour guides regularly receiving amazing feedback on Tripadvisor as well as on evaluation surveys.

“Interesting and comfortably paced presentation by knowledgeable and articulate guides”

Surveymonkey tour expereince survey

The tours aim to highlight the Abbey’s hidden gems focusing on its fall and rebirth over the past 950 years. Tours are available throughout December and tickets are bookable for free through Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/selby-abbey-31088340645 all donations are welcome, either through our website or our contactless and standard collection boxes.

Thank you to the National Lottery Heritage Fund and all the lottery players for supporting the Resilient Heritage Project to allow us to train our tour guides and deliver amazing experiences for our local community and further afield.