Seven Sisters Audio Tour - GPS Guide That Plays As You Walk

A Guide That Talks Back

Twenty-six stops between Seaford and Eastbourne, each one triggered by your GPS position on the cliffs - the geology of the chalk, the wildlife, and a thousand years of history, from a lost medieval village to a lighthouse that moved. Tap Start once at the trailhead and the coast tells its own story, hands-free, all day, with no signal required.

Written and narrated by Alen Marrick, built into the Trail Companion offline map.

The Short Version

26 narrated stops play automatically as you reach them - about 25 minutes of listening in all
Works offline once you save it - your phone's GPS needs no signal at all
Both directions - Seaford to Eastbourne or Eastbourne to Seaford, or just one section
Every stop is also text - read instead of listen, any time
From £5.99 alone, or £9.99 bundled with the 24-page Ultimate Guide PDF

How It Works

The audio tour lives inside the Trail Companion, the live offline map that comes with every Ultimate Guide purchase. After buying, you activate it on your phone with the link from your purchase email, then tap Save for offline once while you still have signal - this stores the map tiles and all 26 stops of narration on your device.

From there, it runs itself. Tap Start the audio tour at the trailhead, and as you walk, your live GPS position triggers each stop the moment you reach it - no app to check, no track to follow, nothing to tap along the way. Your phone's GPS comes from satellites, not the mobile network, so it keeps working exactly where reception on the Seven Sisters is at its worst: down in the Cuckmere valley and in the dips between the cliffs.

Every stop is geofenced to its own location rather than chained to a fixed order, so the tour works walking Seaford to Eastbourne, the other way round, or for just one section of the route - and any stop can be replayed, or heard early, by tapping its numbered pin on the map.

What the 26 Stops Cover

A sample of what plays along the way, roughly in order from Seaford to Eastbourne:

Seaford & Martello Tower 74

A lost medieval port, and the most westerly Napoleonic-era fort in Britain.

The kittiwake colony

A seabird colony nesting on the cliffs at Splash Point since 1989.

Seaford Head

Chalk downland and the low banks of an Iron Age hillfort.

The Coastguard Cottages

The most photographed view on this coast, and the fight to save it from the sea.

The Cuckmere's ghost meanders

A river straightened in 1846, leaving perfect loops the water no longer runs through.

Exceat, the lost village

Once one of the more important settlements in East Sussex - abandoned after the Black Death.

Haven Brow to Went Hill Brow

Each of the seven named cliffs, its own theme - chalk formation, flint, wildflowers and butterflies, erosion, smugglers' gin.

Birling Gap

A coastguard terrace the sea has been taking cottage by cottage since 1994.

Belle Tout lighthouse

Moved 17 metres inland on greased beams in 1999, to save it from the cliff edge.

Beachy Head

England's highest chalk sea cliff - a separate headland, not one of the Seven Sisters.

Eastbourne

Journey's end at the pier, with the walk's full distance and climb recapped.

Every fact in the tour is checked against official sources - Historic England, the National Trust, the Sussex Wildlife Trust and others - not just repeated from other websites. The full source list is part of the site's editorial record.

A Sample Stop

Stop 12 · Short Brow

“This is Short Brow - at fifty-seven metres, the lowest of the Sisters, exactly as the name promises. It is a good place to think about what you are actually standing on. Every step of this walk is on chalk: the remains of plankton that drifted in a warm, clear sea between roughly eighty-seven and eighty-four million years ago...”

One of 26 stops - this one on the geology beneath your feet.

Get the Audio Tour

Ultimate Guide

£4.99

24-page PDF + the live offline trail map. No audio tour.

See the guide

Best value

Guide + Audio Tour

£9.99

Everything - the PDF, the offline map, and all 26 narrated stops.

Audio Tour only

£5.99

The tour + the offline map. No PDF. Also the upgrade price if you already own the guide.

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Audio Tour FAQs

What is the Seven Sisters audio tour?

A GPS-triggered audio tour built into the Trail Companion offline map. Twenty-six narrated stops play automatically as you reach them between Seaford and Eastbourne, covering the geology of the chalk, the wildlife, and the history of the coast - from the lost medieval village of Exceat and the smugglers of Crowlink to the lighthouse that was moved back from the cliff edge. About 25 minutes of listening in all, written by Alen Marrick.

Does it work with no phone signal?

Yes. Save the map for offline once, while you still have signal, and the narration is stored on your phone alongside the map tiles. Your phone's GPS works from satellites, not the mobile network, so the stops keep triggering and playing with zero signal - which matters, because reception on the Seven Sisters is patchy at best.

Do I have to walk in one direction?

No. Each stop is geofenced to its own location rather than tied to a fixed sequence, so the tour plays correctly whether you walk Seaford to Eastbourne or the other way, and even if you only walk part of the route.

How much does it cost?

£5.99 on its own, which includes the Trail Companion offline map (no PDF guide). £9.99 bundled with the Ultimate Guide PDF - the two together, saving 99p versus buying separately. Already own the Ultimate Guide? You can add the audio tour at any time for £5.99.

Can I read it instead of listening?

Yes. Every stop can be read as on-screen text as well as heard, using the Aa button in the Trail Companion - useful in a quiet spot, for accessibility, or if you just prefer reading.