A great way to explore the heritage of our communities is through a walking tour which will take you to heritage homes with interesting architecture and colourful stories, road-side plaques, and historic sites. Below are several self-guided walking tours created by locals and heritage groups for your enjoyment:
- Campbellford Walking Tour - a tour of designated heritage properties where you can see houses belonging to notables of the past like James Cockburn. You'll learn about the rumoured conflict between the Ferris and Dinwoodie families years ago.
- Cobourg Walking Tour - Interesting People and Places Tour will take you by Cobourg's mystery building 'The Barracks', the birthplace of Hollywood actress, Marie Dressler, and will have you marvelling at a house "The Hill" that occupies one of Cobourg's finest locations.
- Port Hope Walking Tour - Historical Walking Tour taking you by one of Port Hope's oldest houses, Canada House, overlooking Lake Ontario, and a walk down Ontario's best-preserved 19th century streetscape -- Walton Street.
- Hastings Walking Tour - find out who won, from the King, the Royal Red Cross for bravery; see a huge bay window door that was presumed to be for family wakes.
- Warkworth Walking Tour - you'll see glorious architecture like ornate Italianate brackets, polychromatic brickwork, and cobblestone piers supporting a verandah.
- Grafton Walking Tour - an opportunity to stroll through this hamlet featuring the former Grafton Common School from 1861, a Gothic Revival house built in 1854, and a chance to learn how Grafton acquired its name.
- Colborne Walking Tour - see the only example of a house in the Queen Anne Revival, and learn about the Seaton House ghost.
- Gore's Landing, Rice Lake - obtain the booklet for a 4km walking tour, with some items inspiried by literary pioneer and former resident, Catharine Parr Traill.
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