Welcome to Visit Blaby Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Blaby
Visit Blaby places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Blaby places to visit. A unique way to experience Blaby’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Blaby as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Blaby Walkfo Preview Blaby is some five miles south of Leicester city centre. It has population of around 6,240 (2001 figures), falling slightly to 6,194 at the 2011 census. Its name probably came Old Norse Blábýr = “farmstead or village belonging to a man named Blár” When you visit Blaby, Walkfo brings Blaby places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Blaby Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Blaby
Visit Blaby – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 35 audio plaques & Blaby places for you to explore in the Blaby area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Blaby places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Blaby with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Blaby places with Walkfo Blaby to hear history at Blaby’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Blaby has 35 places to visit in our interactive Blaby 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 Blaby, 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 Blaby places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Blaby & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 35 audio facts unique to Blaby places in an interactive Blaby map you can explore.”
Walkfo Blaby tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Blaby
Best Blaby places to visit
Blaby has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Blaby’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Blaby’s information audio spots:
Braunstone Park & Rowley Fields Braunstone Park & Rowley Fields is an electoral ward and administrative division of the city of Leicester, England . It comprises the western Leicester suburbs of Braunstone Frith, Braunstone .
Aylestone Meadows Aylestone Meadows is an 8.8-hectare (22-acre) Local Nature Reserve in Leicester . It is Leicester’s largest nature reserve situated on the floodplains of the River Soar and River Biam along with several locks of the Grand Union Canal . A medieval packhorse bridge provides evidence of trade and previous settlement .
St Andrews F.C. (England) St Andrews Football Club are a football club based in Aylestone, a suburb of Leicester, England . They play in the United Counties League Division One, having been relegated from the Premier Division at the end of the 2017–18 season .
Enderby, Leicestershire Enderby is a village and civil parish in Leicestershire, on the southwest outskirts of the city of Leicester . The village’s name means ‘farm/settlement of Eindrithi’ The parish includes the neighbourhood of St John’s, which is east of the village separated from it by the M1 motorway .
South Wigston South Wigston is a large village to the south of Leicester, England. It is outside the city boundary, forming part of the Oadby and Wigst district of Leicestershire. The population of the ward rose slightly from 7,471 at the 2001 census to 7,490 at the 2011 census.
St Thomas’ Church, South Wigston St Thomas’ Church, South Wigston is a Grade II* listed parish church in Leicestershire. It was built in the 1930s and is located in South Wigston.
County Hall F.C. County Hall Football Club is a football club based in Wigston, Leicestershire, England. They are currently members of the Leicesterhire Senior League Premier Division and play at Saffron Lane, groundsharing with Aylestone Park.
Glen Parva Barracks Glen Parva Barracks was a military installation near South Wigston in Leicestershire. It was located on the outskirts of South Wigston.
Glen Parva Glen Parva is a civil parish in the Blaby district of Leicestershire. The population of the civil parish (including Eyres Monsell) was measured at 17,189 in the 2011 census. It is a largely residential area with no main shopping or leisure centres, although it is situated next to Fosse Shopping Park.
River Sence, Wigston River Sence is a Leicestershire (England) tributary of the larger River Soar. After prolonged rain the river floods large areas of farm land along its course. The Environment Agency monitors the river but there has been no significant flooding in recent years.
Visit Blaby plaques
1 plaques hereBlaby has 1 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Blaby 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 Blaby using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Blaby plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Blaby audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Blaby allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Blaby’s 35 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Blaby freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Blaby Map App
Our visit Blaby map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Blaby & 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 Blaby tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Blaby centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Blaby area at LONG:-1.16777, LAT:52.5724.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Blaby, 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.
● Fosse Shopping Park ● Enderby Warren Quarry ● Braunstone Park & Rowley Fields ● Aylestone Meadows ● St Andrews F.C. (England) ● Enderby, Leicestershire ● Aylestone ● South Wigston ● St Thomas’ Church, South Wigston ● Aylestone Park F.C. ● County Hall F.C. ● Glen Parva Barracks ● HM Prison Glen Parva ● Eyres Monsell ● Glen Parva ● Glen Parva Nature Reserve ● River Sence, Wigston ● Whetstone, Leicestershire ● Countesthorpe ● Leicestershire and Rutland County Football Association ● Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust ● Blaby & Whetstone Athletic F.C. ● Saffron Dynamo F.C. ● Narborough Bog ● Carlton Hayes Hospital ● Narborough Hall ● All Saints Church, Narborough ● Narborough, Leicestershire ● Blaby District ● Littlethorpe, Leicestershire
● Cosby, Leicestershire ● St Andrew’s Church, Aylestone ● All Saints’ Church, Blaby
Getting to / around Blaby – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Blaby using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Blaby places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Blaby Public Transport Stations
Blaby Notable Streets & Road Destinations
South Wigston railway station
Wigston Glen Parva railway station
Wigston South railway station
Wigston Magna railway station
Blaby railway station
Whetstone railway station
Countesthorpe railway station
Narborough railway station
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Local Blaby historians & Blaby tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Blaby? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Blaby’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 Blaby 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 Blaby 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 Blaby 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-Blaby’ web pages (for example: www.visitBlaby.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 Blaby places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Blaby places to visit. A unique way to experience Blaby’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Blaby as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Blaby places with Walkfo Blaby to hear history at Blaby’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Blaby has 35 places to visit in our interactive Blaby 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 Blaby, 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 Blaby places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Blaby & the surrounding areas.
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