Welcome to Royal Arsenal Woolwich guided tours registration page!
Upcoming RAH 2026 Tour Dates
Time: 1pm to 4pm
Price: £25 per person **
To receive tour dates, updates, and the option to book a place, please register your interest using the form below. The form is simply for notifications and to hold your place on the list. There is no commitment to attend.
No upfront payment. You pay on the day on arrival.
Tours are scheduled once we have enough registered interest, so the more people who register, the sooner the next date will be confirmed.
Note: extended tours are less frequent than standard tours, once or twice a year
** Prices are subject to increase to £30 per person from June 2026 for the standard 3 hour tour.
- RAH Standard Tour dates:
Time: 1pm to 4pm
Price: £25 per person **
- RAH Extended Tour:
Date: Sunday 2026 - TBC
Time: 11am to 5pm
Price: £50 Per Person
To receive tour dates, updates, and the option to book a place, please register your interest using the form below. The form is simply for notifications and to hold your place on the list. There is no commitment to attend.
No upfront payment. You pay on the day on arrival.
Tours are scheduled once we have enough registered interest, so the more people who register, the sooner the next date will be confirmed.
Note: extended tours are less frequent than standard tours, once or twice a year
** Prices are subject to increase to £30 per person from June 2026 for the standard 3 hour tour.
We will reply with details once we have received your booking request.
Email [email protected] for any queries or if you have issues submitting the form, please book with email instead.
Email [email protected] for any queries or if you have issues submitting the form, please book with email instead.
Standard tour route approx. 3 hours long
Woolwich Arsenal History Standard 3 hour Tour area 2025
Standard RAH tour poster description
RAH Woolwich Arsenal History Tours Standard (3 hours) poster £25 a place
Extended tour route
Woolwich Royal Arsenal History Extended 6 hour tour area
Extended tour poster description
Royal Arsenal Extended tour information poster 6 hours (including a break) £40 per place
Extended tour information: 5-6 hours
The tour will be fully narrated, is likely to be over five hours long and will feature all the historic buildings in our shorter tours of the Arsenal’s western core. In addition, it will also include the following...
• Full description of how guns were made in the Arsenal from Bronze, Cast Iron, Wrought Iron and Steel.
• Full description of artillery ammunition manufacture.
• A description of high explosives manufacture. Deliberately limited!
• The Arsenal’s canal and it’s recently restored Lock and Swing Bridge.
• A view of the surviving ‘Danger Buildings’ area from the top of Gallions Hill with narration.
• The remarkable roll-on roll-off railway slipway for despatch of the largest guns to firing ranges in the Thames Estuary. Its capacity was over 300 tons. **note subject to tide times
More details will be emailed before the tour date once registered.
Extra information can be found here:
https://www.royal-arsenal-history.com/extended-tour.html
The tour will be fully narrated, is likely to be over five hours long and will feature all the historic buildings in our shorter tours of the Arsenal’s western core. In addition, it will also include the following...
• Full description of how guns were made in the Arsenal from Bronze, Cast Iron, Wrought Iron and Steel.
• Full description of artillery ammunition manufacture.
• A description of high explosives manufacture. Deliberately limited!
• The Arsenal’s canal and it’s recently restored Lock and Swing Bridge.
• A view of the surviving ‘Danger Buildings’ area from the top of Gallions Hill with narration.
• The remarkable roll-on roll-off railway slipway for despatch of the largest guns to firing ranges in the Thames Estuary. Its capacity was over 300 tons. **note subject to tide times
More details will be emailed before the tour date once registered.
Extra information can be found here:
https://www.royal-arsenal-history.com/extended-tour.html
The extended version is approx. 5-6 hours long (including a break) and the tour will head towards the danger building areas along the river Thames. More information here:
Our first tour. The first tour was on Sunday 30th July 2023 and despite unexpected rainfall was immensely well received.
So great was the appreciation that we are definitely running a couple of repeat tours.
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