Welcome to Visit Chessington Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Chessington
Visit Chessington places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Chessington places to visit. A unique way to experience Chessington’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Chessington as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Chessington Walkfo Preview When you visit Chessington, Walkfo brings Chessington places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Chessington Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Chessington
Visit Chessington – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 88 audio plaques & Chessington places for you to explore in the Chessington area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Chessington places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Chessington history
Its name came from Anglo-Saxon Cissan dūn = “hill belonging to [a man named] Cissa” Its name was Cissa, which means a hill belonging to a man named Cissa.
Why visit Chessington with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Chessington places with Walkfo Chessington to hear history at Chessington’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Chessington has 88 places to visit in our interactive Chessington 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 Chessington, 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 Chessington places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Chessington & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 88 audio facts unique to Chessington places in an interactive Chessington map you can explore.”
Walkfo Chessington tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Chessington
Best Chessington places to visit
Chessington has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Chessington’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Chessington’s information audio spots:
Epsom Cluster Epsom Cluster, also referred to as the Horton Estate, was a cluster or group of five large psychiatric hospitals situated on land to the west of Epsom .
Worcester Park House Worcester Park House, built in 1607, was one of the residences of the 4th Earl of Worcester, who was appointed Keeper of the Great Park of nearby Nonsuch Palace in 1606 . The ruins are in Surrey, in the United Kingdom .
Giggs Hill Green Giggs Hill Green is a triangular park in Thames Ditton bordered on one side by the Portsmouth Road which has, since 1833, contained as a major part of it, the village’s cricket green .
Surbiton Lagoon Surbiton Lagoon was an open air swimming pool located in SurBiton, London, England . It was located on the banks of the River Thames in the early 1960s and early 1970s .
St Andrew’s Square, Kingston upon Thames St. Andrews Square is a mainly 1876 to 1884-built garden square in Surbiton in the borough of Kingston upon Thames, London.
St Mary’s Church, Ewell The Anglican Church of St Mary the Virgin, Ewell is the civic church of the borough of Epsom and Ewell in the county of Surrey in South East England.
Raeburn Open Space Raeburn Open Space, locally known as Berrylands Nature Reserve, is a 5-hectare Local Nature Reserve and Site of Borough Importance for Nature Conservation, Grade 1, in Berrylands in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in London. The site is a linear park along the Tolworth Brook (also known as the Surbiton Stream), a tributary of the Hogsmill River.
Visit Chessington plaques
11 plaques hereChessington has 11 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Chessington 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 Chessington using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Chessington plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Chessington audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Chessington allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Chessington’s 88 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Chessington freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Chessington Map App
Our visit Chessington map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Chessington & 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 Chessington tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Chessington centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Chessington area at LONG:-0.2998, LAT:51.3635.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Chessington, 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.
Our Chessington accommodation map shows places to stay & prices for when you visit Chessington.
Things to do & visit in Chessington / surrounding areas
● Raven’s Ait ● St Mark’s Church, Surbiton ● Surbiton ● Seething Wells ● St Andrew’s Church, Surbiton ● Sessions House, Surbiton ● The Wood, Surbiton ● The Station, Stoneleigh ● Stoneleigh, Surrey ● Fitznells Manor ● Chessington ● Hook, London ● Bonesgate Open Space ● Castle Hill, Chessington ● Kingston Institute of Tamil Culture ● Kingstonian F.C. ● Corinthian-Casuals F.C. ● Municipal Borough of Surbiton ● Bonesgate Stream ● Ace of Spades (junction) ● Horton Country Park ● Tolworth Court Farm Fields ● Epsom Athletic F.C. ● Chessington & Hook United F.C. ● Long Grove Hospital ● Barwell, London ● Horton Light Railway ● Tolworth Hospital ● Zufari: Ride into Africa! ● Hocus Pocus Hall
● Scorpion Express ● Chessington World of Adventures ● Safari Skyway ● Rattlesnake (roller coaster) ● Rameses Revenge ● The Gruffalo River Ride Adventure ● Bubbleworks ● Decca Sports Ground ● The 5th Dimension (ride) ● Terror Tomb ● Tomb Blaster ● Vampire (roller coaster) ● Tiny Truckers ● Hogsmill LNR ● Black Buccaneer ● Dragon’s Fury (roller coaster) ● Peeking Heights ● Tiger Rock ● Kobra (ride) ● Epsom Cottage Hospital ● Thames Down Link ● Jubilee Wood, Malden Rushett ● West Park Hospital, Epsom ● Epsom Cluster ● Horton Hospital ● Claygate Common ● Manor Hospital, Epsom ● St Ebba’s Hospital ● Malden Rushett ● Stokes Field ● Tolworth ● Long Ditton ● Worcester Park House ● Kingston Rural District ● Edith Gardens ● Chessington Hall ● Church of St Nicholas, Thames Ditton ● The Rythe ● Giggs Hill Green ● The Ram Folk Club ● Scilly Isles, Surrey ● Berrylands ● Surbiton Lagoon ● Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames ● Elmbridge Open Space ● Southwood Open Space ● Epsom Common ● St Andrew’s Square, Kingston upon Thames ● St Mary’s Church, Ewell ● 107.8 Radio Jackie ● Claygate ● Hinchley Wood ● Thames Ditton ● Raeburn Open Space ● Hogsmill River Park ● St Mary the Virgin’s church, Chessington
Getting to / around Chessington – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Chessington using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Chessington places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Chessington Public Transport Stations
Chessington Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Surbiton railway station
Stoneleigh railway station
Ewell West railway station
Chessington North railway station
Chessington South railway station
Tolworth railway station
Epsom railway station
Thames Ditton railway station
Malden Manor railway station
Claygate railway station
Hinchley Wood railway station
Stones Road Pond
A307 road
Roads
Chessington is about four miles (6 km) from junction 9 of the M25 motorway . The town is situated on the A243 Leatherhead Road, close to the A3 London-to-Portsmouth trunk route to the north .
Buses
Chessington area is served by a number of daily bus services, such as routes 71, 465, 467 and 465 . It is also served by the school service 671 and local routes K2 and K4 .
Local Chessington historians & Chessington tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Chessington? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Chessington’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 Chessington 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 Chessington 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 Chessington 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-Chessington’ web pages (for example: www.visitChessington.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