Welcome to Visit Calke Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Calke
Visit Calke places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Calke places to visit. A unique way to experience Calke’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Calke as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Calke Walkfo Preview Calke is a small village and civil parish in South Derbyshire. It includes the historic house Calke Abbey, a National Trust property. The main entrance to its grounds is from the neighbouring village of Ticknall. When you visit Calke, Walkfo brings Calke places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Calke Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Calke
Visit Calke – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 22 audio plaques & Calke places for you to explore in the Calke area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Calke places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Calke with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Calke places with Walkfo Calke to hear history at Calke’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Calke has 22 places to visit in our interactive Calke 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 Calke, 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 Calke places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Calke & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Calke tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Calke
Best Calke places to visit
Calke has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Calke’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Calke’s information audio spots:
St Michael with St Mary’s Church, Melbourne St Michael and St Mary’s Church, Melbourne is a Grade I listed parish church in Derbyshire. It was built in the 1930s and is now a Grade II listed parish.
Melbourne Hall Melbourne Hall is a Georgian country house in Melbourne, Derbyshire, England. It was the seat of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. The hall is the origin of the name of Melbourne, Australia. The house is a Grade II* listed building.
Breedon Hall Breedon Hall, Breedon on the Hill in north-west Leicestershire, is listed on the English Heritage Register. It was the ancestral home of the Curzons for over three centuries and is now owned by the Meynell family.
St George’s Church, Ticknall St George’s Church, Ticknall is a Grade II listed parish church in Derbyshire. It was built in the 1930s and is now a Grade I listed Grade II parish church.
Ticknall Tramway The Ticknall Tramway was a 12.8 mi (20.6 km) long 4 ft 2 in (1,270 mm) gauge horse-drawn plateway. It operated from 1802 to 1913.
Calke Abbey Calke Abbey is a Grade I listed country house near Ticknall, Derbyshire, in the care of the National Trust. The site was an Augustinian priory from the 12th century until its dissolution by Henry VIII. The present building was never actually an abbey, but is a Baroque mansion built between 1701 and 1704.
Staunton Harold Hall Staunton Harold Hall is a large 18th-century Grade I listed country house built by the Earls Ferrers. It is situated within the 2,000-acre (810 ha) Staunpton Harold Park, Leicestershire, England.
Church of St Mary and St Hardulph, Breedon on the Hill The Priory Church of St Mary and St Hardulph is the Church of England parish church of Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire. The church was founded as a monastery in the 7th century and contains the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon sculptures. It also contains a notable family pew and Renaissance-era church monuments to the Shirley family.
Visit Calke plaques
1 plaques hereCalke has 1 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Calke 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 Calke using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Calke plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Calke audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Calke allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Calke’s 22 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Calke freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Calke Map App
Our visit Calke map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Calke & 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 Calke tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Calke centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Calke area at LONG:-1.448, LAT:52.795.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Calke, 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.
● Smisby ● Boundary, Derbyshire ● St James’ Church, Smisby ● Melbourne, Derbyshire ● St Michael with St Mary’s Church, Melbourne ● Melbourne Hall ● Wilson, Leicestershire ● Staunton Harold Reservoir ● Lount Meadows ● Breedon on the Hill ● Breedon Hall ● Breedon Hill ● Worthington, Leicestershire ● Ticknall ● St George’s Church, Ticknall ● Ticknall Tramway ● Calke Abbey ● Staunton Harold Hall ● Staunton Harold ● Dimminsdale ● Melbourne Castle ● Church of St Mary and St Hardulph, Breedon on the Hill
Getting to / around Calke – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Calke using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Calke places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Calke Public Transport Stations
Calke Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Worthington railway station
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Local Calke historians & Calke tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Calke? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Calke’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 Calke 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 Calke 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 Calke 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-Calke’ web pages (for example: www.visitCalke.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