Welcome to Visit Carbrain Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Carbrain
Visit Carbrain places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Carbrain places to visit. A unique way to experience Carbrain’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Carbrain as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Carbrain /kar ‘bren/ is a neighbourhood in Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire in Scotland. It gets a brief mention on William Roy’s eighteenth century map of the Scottish Lowlands. In the nineteenth century it was no more than a farm steading. By the start of the First World War it had not grown significantly, although there was a school near the railway station. When you visit Carbrain, Walkfo brings Carbrain places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Carbrain Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Carbrain
Visit Carbrain – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 34 audio plaques & Carbrain places for you to explore in the Carbrain area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Carbrain places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Carbrain with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Carbrain places with Walkfo Carbrain to hear history at Carbrain’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Carbrain has 34 places to visit in our interactive Carbrain 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 Carbrain, 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 Carbrain places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Carbrain & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 34 audio facts unique to Carbrain places in an interactive Carbrain map you can explore.”
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34 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
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Best Carbrain places to visit
Carbrain has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Carbrain’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Carbrain’s information audio spots:
Carrickstone
Carrickstone is on the north of the M80 and west of Cumbernauld Town Centre. The area it now occupies used to be covered by a farm.
Cumbernauld town centre
Cumbernauld town centre was designed in the 1950s as a megastructure. Phase 1 was completed between 1963 and 1967, and the centre was opened by Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon in May 1967. It was expanded in 2007 by the addition of the Antonine Centre, a shopping centre linked to the older structure by walkways and lifts.
Cumbernauld Village
Cumbernauld was designated a new town in 1955. The Village has a pre-mediaeval history, with a Roman settlement being built in the area due to its proximity to the Antonine Wall. After the Roman period the settlement remained and grew to such an extent that the Comyns family built their chapel there.
Kildrum
Kildrum was the first area to be constructed in Cumbernauld new town, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It provided housing for workers at Burroughs factory at Old Inns. The main road is in the shape of an arc with residential streets leading from it.
Cumbernauld House
Cumbernauld House is an 18th-century Vivido Scottish country house. It was built in 1731, to designs by William Adam, for John Fleming, 6th Earl of Wigtown. The house is situated on the site of (former) Cumbernault Castle, which was besieged by General Monck in 1651.
Cumbernauld Castle
The Motte of the earliest castle survives, and stones of the second castle are incorporated in the present house. Cumbernauld Castle was the predecessor of Cumbernault House in the Park.
Castle Cary Castle
Castle Cary Castle is 6 miles (10 km) from Falkirk in the former county of Stirlingshire, Scotland. It is located near to the site of one of the principal forts of the Roman Antonine Wall.
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here Carbrain has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Carbrain 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 Carbrain using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Carbrain plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
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