Welcome to Visit Alperton Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Alperton
Visit Alperton places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Alperton places to visit. A unique way to experience Alperton’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Alperton as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Alperton Walkfo Preview Alperton is 7.5 miles (12 km) west north-west of Charing Cross. It includes a handful of high-rise and many mid-rise buildings. It adjoins the Grand Union Canal’s Paddington Arm, fed by the Brent Reservoir. When you visit Alperton, Walkfo brings Alperton places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Alperton Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Alperton
Visit Alperton – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 162 audio plaques & Alperton places for you to explore in the Alperton area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Alperton places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Alperton toponymy
Alperton means “farmstead or estate associated with a man named Ealhbeorht” deriving from Anglo-Saxon personal name and tūn, meaning farmstead or village in Old English.
Why visit Alperton with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Alperton places with Walkfo Alperton to hear history at Alperton’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Alperton has 162 places to visit in our interactive Alperton map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Alperton, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Alperton places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Alperton & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Alperton tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Alperton
Best Alperton places to visit
Alperton has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Alperton’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Alperton’s information audio spots:
Ealing Common Ealing Common is a large open space (approx 47 acres) in Ealing, West London . It is the largest open space in the world, with an area of 47 acres .
Hanger Hill Hanger Hill or Haymills Estate is a local area and ward of the London Borough of Ealing . It was developed in the interwar period when affluent Londoners moved out of Central London for more green spaces . The estate features spacious houses and flats designed by architects Douglas Smith and Barley .
Ealing Grove Ealing Grove was a mansion and estate in Ealing, Middlesex, west London . It was adjacent to the Ealing House estate, but distinct from it, and stood amongst trees .
Hanger Hill Wood Hanger Hill Wood is a small remnant of ancient woodland to the east of the Hanger Hill Park and North Circular Road at Hanger Lane in Ealing in the London Borough of Ealing . Named from ‘Hangra’, the Old English word for wooded slope .
St Peter’s Church, Ealing St Peter’s Church is an Anglican parish church in North Ealing, in the Diocese of London . Grade II* Listed building is noted for its combination of Arts & Crafts and late-Victorian Gothic .
Horsenden Hill Horsenden Hill is a hill and open space in West London . It is one of the higher eminences in the local area, rising to 85m (276 ft) above sea level . The summit forms part of an ancient hillfort and is the site of a trig point .
Castlebar Hill Castlebar Hill is 167 feet (51 m) high . In the 18th century, it was the location of Castle Beare, a grand mansion or country seat .
London Samurai Rovers F.C. London Samurai Rovers Football Club is a football club based in Acton, London. They are currently members of the Combined Counties League Division One and play at Twyford Avenue Sports Ground.
Stonebridge Park power station Stonebridge Park power station was a private supply electricity generating station in Wembley north west London. It supplied direct current electricity to the adjacent Euston to Watford electric railway lines from 1914 to 1967.
Visit Alperton plaques
27 plaques hereAlperton has 27 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Alperton plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit Alperton using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Alperton plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Alperton audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Alperton allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Alperton’s 162 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Alperton freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Alperton Map App
Our visit Alperton map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Alperton & surrounding areas using the Walkfo digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has plaque, building, street or area information on history, culture or tourism.
You can set your Walkfo’s Alperton tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Alperton centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Alperton area at LONG:-0.2994, LAT:51.5405.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Alperton, go to your App Store to search for “Walkfo” or follow a links below and install on your mobile phone. Walkfo is designed for use with headphones or AirPods, so you can walk & explore whilst learning about the things around you without digital distraction.
Things to do & visit in Alperton / surrounding areas
● Twyford Church of England Academies Trust ● Ealing Common Depot ● Acton, London ● Ealing Common ● St Gabriel’s Church, North Acton ● Hanger Hill ● Gypsy Corner ● West Acton ● University of West London ● Parafia Ealing ● Ealing Broadway Centre ● Drama Studio London ● Ealing Grove ● LH2 Studios ● 2001 Ealing bombing ● Western Avenue, London ● Hanger Lane ● Ealing Jazz Club ● Ealing ● Ealing Cricket Club Ground ● Ealing Studios ● Blast Radio ● Pitzhanger Manor ● Ealing Town Hall ● Municipal Borough of Ealing ● Victoria Hall (Ealing) ● St Augustine’s Priory, Ealing ● The Questors Theatre ● Hanger Hill Wood ● Durston House
● Harlesden ● Acton Lane Power Station ● North Acton ● St Matthew’s Church, Willesden ● Willesden New Cemetery ● Edward Sayers (RAF airman) ● Central Middlesex Hospital ● Church End, Brent ● Municipal Borough of Willesden ● Willesden Brent Sidings ● Stonebridge, London ● Taylors Lane Power Station ● Freestone and Webb ● Park Royal ● Park Royal Vehicles ● Fulton Umbrellas ● Fox Wood ● Nuffield Speech and Language Unit ● St Peter’s Church, Ealing ● West Twyford ● Montpelier, London ● Brentham Garden Suburb ● Ace Cafe ● Ealing Abbey ● Ealing rail crash ● St John’s Church, Ealing ● Alperton ● St James Church Alperton ● Wembley Central rail crash ● Wembley Central Mosque ● Stonebridge Park Depot ● Wembley Central (ward) ● Wembley Intercity Depot ● Wembley ● London Hackspace ● Perivale ● Tokyngton ● White Horse Bridge ● North Wembley ● Horsenden Hill ● London Designer Outlet ● Wembley (Chiltern) Light Maintenance Depot ● Wembley Conference Centre ● Pitshanger ● Wembley Stadium (1923) ● Twin Towers (Wembley) ● Wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics ● Weightlifting at the 1948 Summer Olympics ● Boxing at the 1948 Summer Olympics ● Field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics ● Volleyball at the 2012 Summer Olympics ● Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics ● Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics ● Football at the 1948 Summer Olympics ● Sudbury, London ● St Mary’s Perivale ● Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics ● Wembley Stadium ● Concert for Diana ● 2000 England v Germany football match ● Wembley Stadium Bowl ● Nelson Mandela: An International Tribute for a Free South Africa ● Elite Cinema, Wembley Park ● Wembley Arena ● Diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics ● Swimming at the 1948 Summer Olympics ● Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics ● Perivale Wood ● Wembley F.C. ● Greenford Urban District ● Brent Civic Centre ● St. Raphael’s Edible Garden ● Pitshanger Dynamo F.C. ● Kensington & Ealing Borough F.C. ● Sufra (charity) ● Wembley United Synagogue ● Duke of Kent, Ealing ● Olympic Way ● Castlebar Hill ● Fountain Studios ● Wembley Park Cricket Ground ● Hirst Research Centre ● BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London ● Tír Chonaill Gaels ● Wembley Park ● West Ealing ● Neasden Hospital ● St Raphael’s Estate ● St Stephen’s Church, Ealing ● Ealing Trailfinders Rugby Club ● Trailfinders Sports Ground ● North Greenford United F.C. ● Perivale Park Athletics Track ● Preston (ward) ● Half-Way House, West Ealing ● The Drayton Court ● Brent Valley Golf Club ● Hanwell ● Neasden Junction ● Brent Park, Neasden ● Greenford ● Litten Nature Reserve ● Neasden Foundation F.C. ● Southall F.C. ● London Rangers F.C. ● Grove Farm, Ealing ● Sudbury Hill ● Neasden Depot ● Neasden Power Station ● London Borough of Harrow ● Harrow on the Hill ● Northwick Park ● Windermere, South Kenton ● Preston Park (Brent) ● Chalkhill Estate ● Brent Town Hall ● London Borough of Brent ● Municipal Borough of Wembley ● Lycée International de Londres Winston Churchill ● Preston, London ● Hanger Lane gyratory ● Acton–Northolt line ● Mapesbury ● Watkin’s Tower ● British Empire Exhibition ● Hanwell Town F.C. ● London Motorcycle Museum ● London Samurai Rovers F.C. ● Statue of Bobby Moore, Wembley ● Willesden Logistics Hub
Getting to / around Alperton – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Alperton using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Alperton places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Alperton Public Transport Stations
Alperton Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Acton Main Line railway station
West Acton tube station
North Ealing tube station
North Acton tube station
Old Oak Lane Halt railway station
Park Royal railway station
Park Royal tube station
West London Junction (LBR) railway station
Willesden Junction station
Old Oak Common Lane railway station
Willesden railway station
Harlesden station
Harlesden railway station (Midland Railway)
Park Royal West Halt railway station
Twyford Abbey Halt railway station
Park Royal & Twyford Abbey tube station
Hanger Lane tube station
Brentham for North Ealing and Greystoke Park railway station
Alperton tube station
Wembley Central station
Sudbury Town tube station
Stonebridge Park station
Perivale tube station
Sudbury & Harrow Road railway station
Perivale Halt railway station
North Wembley station
Wembley Exhibition railway station
Wembley Park tube station
South Greenford railway station
West Ealing railway station
Drayton Green railway station
Neasden tube station
Castle Bar Park railway station
Greenford station
Sudbury Hill tube station
Sudbury Hill Harrow railway station
South Kenton station
Preston Road tube station
Ealing Common tube station
Ealing Broadway station
Wembley Stadium railway station
Stonebridge Park power station
Uxbridge Road
Harrow Road
Lytton Road Assembly Rooms
Trains
Alperton station is on the Piccadilly line and located in the district. Other close stations include Hanger Lane (Central line) and Stonebridge Park (Bakerloo line & Watford DC Line) to the east.
Local Alperton historians & Alperton tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Alperton? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Alperton’s places, attractions & landmarks ability to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & using our simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. – Creating a new audio experience for your Alperton place is free* and quick (15+ minutes if you prepare text content) to use, with Walkfo Creator doing the hard work of generating AI audio files for geo-spots from the text you provide with a simply click on a map. – The 100 Amazing Alperton Places is just one example of an outdoor museum created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) for people to safely explore during Covid-19 times whilst visiting a city. Our tool is open to tourism organisations, travel destinations & National Trust locations to create their own audio walks to offer free when people visit Alperton destinations. – Walkfo itself is looking to partner with websites offering things-to-do / what’s on events listings to enhance the content of our ‘visit-Alperton’ web pages (for example: www.visitAlperton.com). If you are interested in partnering, please contact us to discuss options.
* Walkfo Creator is free to use for a limited number of audio spots within a map with a license fee applicable when more than 20 audio spots within location walk are created. v1.1336