Bury Tour Guides to launch new tours next year after successful 2025

More than 1,500 visitors from 19 countries on four different continents enjoyed tours in Bury St Edmunds in 2025.

Bury St Edmunds Tour Guides are all green or blue badge registered having completed their training with the National Institute of Tour Guiding. With years of experience and with a love of Bury St Edmunds, its history and people and a great sense of humour, the tour guides ensure our visitors see the best that Bury St Edmunds has to offer year after year.

Marketing officer, John Saunders said: “This year has been about the range of tours we have offered and the clients who have enjoyed them.  Our 1,536 visitors have come from 19 countries in four different continents and from all parts of the UK."

Their Ghostly and Macabre Tour which takes place on Fridays from Halloween to the end of March every year has seen record breaking early booking figures and is set to be their best season to date.

John added: "We have had 450 bookings already compared with 903 for the whole of last year."

Having sold out until the end of December, they have announced this week that they will put on some extra tour dates on in 2026.

The popular Bury St Edmunds Food and Drink Tours, launched this year with Our Bury St Edmunds BID and local independent businesses in the town centre, will continue in 2026 and dates are already available to book and a tour would make a great Christmas or Valentine's gift.

The Tour Guides now offer over 20 separate tours on various subjects, meaning that there is a tour for almost every topic.

The most successful are those that relate to both World Wars, dog-friendly walking tours and a literary tour which proved a sell-out at this year’s Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival.   The tours are ideal for groups and most can be delivered throughout the year.

Bury St Edmunds Tour Guides will prepare for the resumption of daily tours in April and the introduction of two new tours, details of which will be announced later.