Welcome to Visit Carrville Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Carrville
Visit Carrville places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Carrville places to visit. A unique way to experience Carrville’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Carrville as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Carrville Walkfo Preview Carrville is a short distance to the east of Durham, near to Moor End and Belmont. It is part of the Belmont parish. When you visit Carrville, Walkfo brings Carrville places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Carrville Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Carrville
Visit Carrville – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 76 audio plaques & Carrville places for you to explore in the Carrville area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Carrville places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Carrville with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Carrville places with Walkfo Carrville to hear history at Carrville’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Carrville has 76 places to visit in our interactive Carrville 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 Carrville, 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 Carrville places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Carrville & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Carrville tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Carrville
Best Carrville places to visit
Carrville has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Carrville’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Carrville’s information audio spots:
St Cuthbert’s Society Boat Club St Cuthbert’s Society Boat Club (SCSBC) is one of the oldest and most distinguished of Durham’s collegiate clubs. Founded in the summer of 1893 with the aim of representing St.Cuthbert’s Society at collegiate level.
St Cuthbert’s Church, Durham St Cuthbert’s Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Durham. It was opened on 31 May 1827 to replace two previous chapels, one run by the secular clergy and the other by the Jesuits. The church is a protected building, being part of the Elvet Green Conservation Area. From 2012 to 2016 the parish was entrusted, along with the chaplaincy, to the Dominican Order.
Shire Hall, Durham The Old Shire Hall is a Grade II listed building in Old Elvet, Durham. It was the headquarters of Durham County Council from 1898 to 1963.
Durham Amateur Rowing Club Durham Amateur Rowing Club is a rowing club on the River Wear. It is based at City Boathouse, Green Lane, Old Elvet, Durham, County Durham.
Purple Radio Purple Radio is Durham University’s Official Student Radio Station. Purple broadcasts online 24 hours a day during term time, from October until June each year.
St Oswald’s Church, Durham St Oswald’s Church is a grade II* listed building and dates from the 12th century. The church is a Church of England parish church in Durham, County Durham.
Institute of Advanced Study (Durham) Institute of Advanced Study was set up to mark Durham’s 175th anniversary. It is intended to attract scholars and public figures from across the world to collaborate on ‘agenda-setting research’ The Institute accepted its first fellows in January 2006 and was formally inaugurated in October 2006.
Cranmer Hall, Durham Cranmer Hall forms part of St John’s College, Durham which is a recognised college of Durham University. It stands in the Open Evangelical tradition and trains ordinands for the Church of England and the wider Anglican Communion.
Palace Green Palace Green is an area of grass in the centre of Durham, England, flanked by Durham Cathedral and Durham Castle. The Cathedral and Castle together form a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The area is accessed by two cobbled streets called Owengate and Dun Cow Lane.
Durham University Department of Engineering The Department of Engineering at Durham University was formed following the split of the School of Engineering & Computer Sciences in October 2017. The engineering research covers civil, mechanical, electrical and electronic engineering research groups.
Visit Carrville plaques
11 plaques hereCarrville has 11 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Carrville 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 Carrville using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Carrville plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Carrville audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Carrville allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Carrville’s 76 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Carrville freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Carrville Map App
Our visit Carrville map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Carrville & 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 Carrville tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Carrville centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Carrville area at LONG:-1.524, LAT:54.789.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Carrville, 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 Carrville / surrounding areas
● High Moorsley ● Pittington ● Littletown, County Durham ● Pittington Hill ● Sherburn Hill ● Durham–Sunderland line ● The Racecourse ● HM Prison Durham ● Green Lane Cricket Ground ● St Cuthbert’s Society Boat Club ● St Cuthbert’s Church, Durham ● Shire Hall, Durham ● The Victoria, Durham ● Durham Amateur Rowing Club ● Purple Radio ● Durham Students’ Union ● Palatinate (newspaper) ● St Giles Church, Durham ● St Oswald’s Church, Durham ● Durham Museum and Heritage Centre ● Assembly Rooms Theatre (Durham) ● Durham University Department of Music ● Institute of Advanced Study (Durham) ● Durham University ● The Bailey ● Kepier ● Cranmer Hall, Durham ● Palace Green ● Cosin’s Library ● Durham Dean and Chapter Library
● Durham W.F.C. ● Durham University Department of Engineering ● Durham Priory ● St Nicholas Church, Durham ● Durham Town Hall ● Durham University Library ● St Cuthbert’s Society, Durham ● Durham University Museum of Archaeology ● Durham Sixth Form Centre ● Old Durham ● Durham Indoor Market ● The Gates Shopping Centre ● Gilesgate ● Kepier Hospital ● Holiday Park (Durham) ● Durham Rural District ● Crook Hall, Durham ● Kepier Haughs ● Shincliffe ● County Hall, Durham ● Moor End, County Durham ● Sherburn Hospital ● Whitwell House ● Sherburn House ● Newton Hall, Durham ● Durham District ● Carrville ● Belmont, County Durham ● Brasside Pond ● Sherburn, County Durham ● Brasside ● HM Prison Frankland ● HM Prison Low Newton ● Leamside ● Hallgarth ● Rainton Gate ● Finchale Priory ● Sherburn Hill (SSSI) ● Maiden Castle, Durham ● Durham, England ● Bishop Cosin’s Hall ● Durham Cathedral ● West Rainton ● Dunelm House
Getting to / around Carrville – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Carrville using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Carrville places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Carrville Public Transport Stations
Carrville Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Durham (Gilesgate) railway station
Durham railway station
Kepier power station
Sherburn House railway station
Sherburn Colliery railway station
Frankland railway station
Rainton railway station
Pittington railway station
Leamside railway station
Belmont Junction railway station (Durham)
Durham bus station
South Street (Durham)
A690 road
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Local Carrville historians & Carrville tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Carrville? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Carrville’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 Carrville 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 Carrville 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 Carrville 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-Carrville’ web pages (for example: www.visitCarrville.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