Welcome to Visit Bearton Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Bearton
Visit Bearton places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Bearton places to visit. A unique way to experience Bearton’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Bearton as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Bearton Walkfo Preview Bearton was a small hamlet lying to the north of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England. It was incorporated into Hitchin over a century ago, and now forms part of the Hitchin Bearton ward. The name Bearton survives in a number of street names – Bearton Road, Bearton Green and Bearton Close. When you visit Bearton, Walkfo brings Bearton places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Bearton Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Bearton
Visit Bearton – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 44 audio plaques & Bearton places for you to explore in the Bearton area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Bearton places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Bearton with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Bearton places with Walkfo Bearton to hear history at Bearton’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Bearton has 44 places to visit in our interactive Bearton 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 Bearton, 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 Bearton places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Bearton & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Bearton tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Bearton
Best Bearton places to visit
Bearton has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Bearton’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Bearton’s information audio spots:
Letchworth Cemetery Cemetery was the first burial ground for Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire. It is now closed for new burials but can be used if graves are being reopened and for prepurchased plots. Cremated remains are also still being interred at the cemetery.
Church of St Katharine, Ickleford The Church of St Katharine of Alexandria is the Church of England parish church for Ickleford in Hertfordshire. It is a Grade I listed building and comes under the Diocese of St Albans.
Church of St Mary, Letchworth The Church of St Mary the Virgin is the Church of England parish church of Letchworth in Hertfordshire. A church appears to have been on the site since before the Norman Conquest. The current church was built in the late 12th century and is Grade II listed.
River Purwell The River Purwell is a chalk stream in Hertfordshire. Its source is springs which rise out of the chalk bedrock at St Ippolyts, forming Ippollitts Brook. The entire course of the stream is near Hitchin.
Hitchin Priory Hitchin Priory in Hitchin in Hertfordshire is today a hotel built in about 1700 on the site of a Carmelite friary founded in 1317. Parts of the original priory are incorporated in the existing building, which has been a Grade I listed building since 1951.
Hitchin Museum and Art Gallery The Hitchin Museum and Art Gallery was a local history museum in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. It told the story of the town’s social history and of the rural industries that contributed to its prosperity.
Hitchin Cemetery Hitchin Cemetery, also known as St John’s Road Cemetery, is the main burial ground for the town of Hitchin. It has been owned and managed by North Hertfordshire District Council since 1974. The cemetery is located on Hitchin Hill, with Standhill Road running along the north-western boundary.
St Mary’s Church, Hitchin St Mary’s Church is a Church of England parish church in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. It dates from the 14th and 15th centuries, with its tower dating from around 1190. The church has been Grade I listed since 1951. During the laying of a new floor in 1911, foundations of a more ancient Saxon church building were found.
Butts Close Butts Close is an 11-acre (45,000 m) park in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. The name refers to the archery butts that used to be on it during the Late medieval and Tudor times. During those years it was much larger but in the last centuries it was built on it.
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Great Wymondley St Mary’s Church is an active Anglican church in Great Wymondley, Hertfordshire. It is a Grade I listed building.
Visit Bearton plaques
2 plaques hereBearton has 2 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Bearton 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 Bearton using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Bearton plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Bearton audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Bearton allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Bearton’s 44 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Bearton freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Bearton Map App
Our visit Bearton map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Bearton & 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 Bearton tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Bearton centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Bearton area at LONG:-0.28416, LAT:51.95777.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Bearton, 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 Bearton / surrounding areas
● Letchworth Cemetery ● Wilbury Hill Camp ● River Oughton ● Hitchin Rural District ● Church of St Katharine, Ickleford ● Church of St Mary, Letchworth ● Ickleford ● River Purwell ● Walsworth ● Hitchin Up Yard ● Purwell Meadows ● Charlton, Hertfordshire ● Hitchin Priory ● Hitchin ● Hitchin Museum and Art Gallery ● Hitchin Cemetery ● North Hertfordshire Museum ● St Mary’s Church, Hitchin ● Hitchin Town Hall ● Hitchin Town Cricket Club Ground ● Sunnyside (Hitchin) ● Butts Close ● Queen Mother Theatre ● Gosmore ● Hitchin Town F.C. ● Oughtonhead Lane ● Highbury Ward ● Westmill (Hitchin) ● Hitchin Oughton ● Benslow Music Trust
● Bearton ● Benslow ● St Ippolyts ● Oughtonhead Nature Reserve ● Oughtonhead Common ● Poets Estate (Hitchin) ● Purwell Ninesprings ● Holwell, Hertfordshire ● Pirton, Hertfordshire ● Hitchin Flyover ● Wymondley Roman Villa ● Church of St Mary the Virgin, Great Wymondley
Getting to / around Bearton – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Bearton using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Bearton places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Bearton Public Transport Stations
Bearton Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Hitchin railway station
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Local Bearton historians & Bearton tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Bearton? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Bearton’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 Bearton 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 Bearton 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 Bearton 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-Bearton’ web pages (for example: www.visitBearton.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