Welcome to Visit Camelon Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Camelon
Visit Camelon places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Camelon places to visit. A unique way to experience Camelon’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Camelon as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Camelon Walkfo Preview Camelon is 1.3 miles (2.1 km) west of Falkirk and 2.6 miles (4.2 km) east of Bonnybridge. At the time of the 2001 census, Camelon had a population of 4,508. When you visit Camelon, Walkfo brings Camelon places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Camelon Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Camelon
Visit Camelon – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 37 audio plaques & Camelon places for you to explore in the Camelon area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Camelon places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Camelon history
Camelon has been suggested as the southern fort of the Roman Gask Ridge separating the Highlands from the Lowlands. A Roman altar was found at Bogton Farm under a kilometer west of the fort. A Samian ware platter, possibly also associated with the site was found and can now be viewed at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow.
Why visit Camelon with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Camelon places with Walkfo Camelon to hear history at Camelon’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Camelon has 37 places to visit in our interactive Camelon 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 Camelon, 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 Camelon places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Camelon & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Camelon tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Camelon
Best Camelon places to visit
Camelon has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Camelon’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Camelon’s information audio spots:
Callendar House Callendar House is set within the grounds of Callendar Park in Falkirk, central Scotland. During the 19th century, it was redesigned and extended in the style of a French Renaissance château fused with elements of Scottish baronial architecture. The core of the building is a 14th-century tower house, with a 300 ft frontage.
Arthur’s O’on Arthur’s O’on (Scots: Oven) was a stone building thought to be a probable Roman temple. It stood on rising ground above the north bank of the River Carron in Stenhousemuir, near Falkirk, Scotland.
Rosebank distillery Rosebank distillery is situated in Camelon on the banks of the Forth and Clyde canal between Edinburgh and Glasgow. Ian MacLeod Distillers Ltd purchased the site from Scottish Canals and the trademarks from Diageo.
Falkirk Old Parish Church Falkirk Old & St. Modan’s Parish Church is located in the centre of Falkirk, central Scotland. The medieval Old Parish Church may have been founded as early as the 7th century. The church was largely rebuilt in the 19th century, though the 18th-century steeple was retained. The building is protected as a category A listed building.
St Andrew’s West St. Andrew’s West Parish Church is the largest church in Falkirk, Scotland, founded in 1843. The present Gothic building was built in 1896 at a cost of £8,100 to designs by architect James Strang. It is protected as a category C(s) listed building.
Falkirk Steeple The Falkirk Steeple was built in 1814 and replaced an earlier steeple dating from the late 17th century. A stylised image of the steeple appears on the crest of Falkirk Football Club.
Falkirk Community Hospital Falkirk Community Hospital is a community hospital in Falkirk, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Forth Valley and is part of the Forth Valley NHS.
Watling Lodge Watling Lodge was a Roman fortlet on the Antonine Wall in Scotland. It was located near what is now Lock Sixteen on the Forth and Clyde Canal in Falkirk.
Millennium Link The Union Canal and the Forth & Clyde Canal were originally joined by a flight of locks. The Millennium Link project replaced the locks with a boat lift, the Falkirk Wheel. The total cost of the project was £78 million.
Royal Scottish National Hospital The Royal Scottish National Hospital was a psychiatric institution situated in Larbert, Falkirk, Scotland. It was first founded as the Scottish National Institution for the Education of Imbecile Children in 1862.
Visit Camelon plaques
2 plaques hereCamelon has 2 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Camelon 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 Camelon using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Camelon plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Camelon audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Camelon allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Camelon’s 37 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Camelon freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Camelon Map App
Our visit Camelon map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Camelon & 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 Camelon tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Camelon centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Camelon area at LONG:-3.817454, LAT:56.004596.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Camelon, 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 Camelon / surrounding areas
● Callendar House ● Carron, Falkirk ● Carronshore ● Arthur’s O’on ● Abbotshaugh Community Woodland ● Stenhousemuir ● Bainsford ● Carronvale House ● Firs Park ● Bellsdyke Hospital ● Larbert ● Rosebank distillery ● Falkirk Old Parish Church ● St Andrew’s West ● Falkirk Steeple ● Camelon ● Falkirk Community Hospital ● Woodlands, Falkirk ● Camelon Juniors F.C. ● Bantaskine ● Glen Village ● Watling Lodge ● Tamfourhill ● Battle of Falkirk Muir ● Millennium Link ● Falkirk Wheel ● Royal Scottish National Hospital ● Forth Valley Royal Hospital ● Rough Castle Fort ● Falkirk (council area)
● High Bonnybridge ● Falkirk Public Library ● Battle of Falkirk ● Brockville Park ● Falkirk
Getting to / around Camelon – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Camelon using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Camelon places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Camelon Public Transport Stations
Camelon Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Falkirk Grahamston railway station
Larbert railway station
Camelon railway station
Falkirk High railway station
Bonnybridge High railway station
Westerglen transmitting station
Falkirk bus station
A88 road
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Local Camelon historians & Camelon tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Camelon? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Camelon’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 Camelon 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 Camelon 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 Camelon 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-Camelon’ web pages (for example: www.visitCamelon.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