Welcome to Visit Balerno Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Balerno
Visit Balerno places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Balerno places to visit. A unique way to experience Balerno’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Balerno as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Balerno Walkfo Preview Balerno is a village on the outskirts of Edinburgh, Scotland situated 8 miles (13 kilometres) south-west of the city centre. Traditionally in the county of Midlothian it now falls within the jurisdiction of the City of Edinburgh Council. When you visit Balerno, Walkfo brings Balerno places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Balerno Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Balerno
Visit Balerno – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 21 audio plaques & Balerno places for you to explore in the Balerno area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Balerno places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Balerno history
The name derives from the Scottish Gaelic Baile Àirneach, meaning “townland/town of the hawthorns” The earliest written records of Balhernoch or Balernach are found in the late 13th century. The 18th Century brought substantial development to the area, with many new flax, snuff and paper mills springing up. After the First World War house building began in earnest in the area.
Why visit Balerno with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Balerno places with Walkfo Balerno to hear history at Balerno’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Balerno has 21 places to visit in our interactive Balerno 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 Balerno, 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 Balerno places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Balerno & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 21 audio facts unique to Balerno places in an interactive Balerno map you can explore.”
Walkfo Balerno tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Balerno
Best Balerno places to visit
Balerno has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Balerno’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Balerno’s information audio spots:
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Visit Balerno plaques
6 plaques hereBalerno has 6 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Balerno 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 Balerno using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Balerno plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Balerno audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Balerno allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Balerno’s 21 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Balerno freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Balerno Map App
Our visit Balerno map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Balerno & 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 Balerno tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Balerno centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Balerno area at LONG:-3.337526, LAT:55.88518.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Balerno, 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 Balerno / surrounding areas
● Bavelaw Castle ● Threipmuir Reservoir ● Harlaw Reservoir ● Juniper Green ● Woodhall House, Edinburgh ● Balerno line ● Water of Leith Walkway ● Balerno ● Lennox Tower ● Curriehill ● Currie ● Dalmahoy ● 1992 Solheim Cup ● Riccarton, Edinburgh ● European Energy Centre ● European Centre of Technology ● Renewable Energy Institute ● Heart of Midlothian W.F.C. ● Hermiston, Edinburgh ● Burnwynd ● RAF Kirknewton
Getting to / around Balerno – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Balerno using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Balerno places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Balerno Public Transport Stations
Balerno Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Juniper Green railway station
Currie railway station
Balerno railway station
Curriehill railway station
Ravelrig Junction Platform railway station
Historical
The Caledonian Railway built the Balerno line, a spur line from Slateford, via Colinton, to the centre of Edinburgh. The last passenger train to run on the line was in 1943, and a High School was placed on the site of the goods station in 1983.
Present day
Balerno is serviced by the 44 bus route, operated by Lothian Buses. The route connects Balerno to Currie, Slateford, the City Centre and Brunstane. The village was also served by the E&M Horsburgh service 24 bus route.
Local Balerno historians & Balerno tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Balerno? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Balerno’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 Balerno 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 Balerno 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 Balerno 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-Balerno’ web pages (for example: www.visitBalerno.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
Visit Balerno places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Balerno places to visit. A unique way to experience Balerno’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Balerno as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Balerno places with Walkfo Balerno to hear history at Balerno’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Balerno has 21 places to visit in our interactive Balerno 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 Balerno, 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 Balerno places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Balerno & the surrounding areas.
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Trying to encourage visitors to Balerno?