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For the 18^th and 19^th September Exeter’s Underground Passages are once again opening up with free tours for Heritage Open Days.

Due to the popularity of this event tickets are restricted to 5 tickets per customer. 

These medieval passages have always fascinated local people. There are stories of wars and sieges, plague and pestilence. They were designed to bring clean drinking water from natural springs outside the walled city. The water came through lead pipes into the heart of the city. The pipes sometimes leaked and repairs to buried pipes could only be carried out by digging them up as we do today. To avoid this disruption the passages were vaulted. It is down some of these vaulted passageways that visitors are guided.

Exeter is the only city in the UK to have underground passages of this type. Guided tours have taken place here since the 1930s. Today the passages are lit throughout, but still fascinate for all who enter.

About the tours

• Please arrive 10-15 minutes before your tour is due to start.
• Children aged under 5 are not allowed on tours but free access to the exhibition is permitted with an accompanying adult.
• Children (under 18s) must be accompanied by an adult underground.
• Wheelchair and pushchair access is restricted to the exhibition only.
• Visitors should be aware that the Passages are constricted and low in places. They are not suitable for those who suffer from claustrophobia.
• Sensible footwear is recommended.
• Dogs are not permitted on tours. However assistance dogs are allowed into the exhibition.

How to find us

The entrance to Exeter's Underground Passages is on Paris Street within the Princesshay Quarter.

Paris Street is just off the main High Street as it joins Sidwell Street - head towards Exeter central bus station from the High Street and you will find the entrance to the Passages on the right-hand side in between Next and the back of Zara.

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Contacting us

Our address is: 2 Paris Street, Exeter EX1 1GA

You can call us on: 01392 265887

You can email us on: underground.passages@exeter.gov.uk

This event is part of the Heritage Open Days Festival. https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/