Welcome to Visit Chopwell Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Chopwell
Visit Chopwell places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Chopwell places to visit. A unique way to experience Chopwell’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Chopwell as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Chopwell is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. It dates back to at least 1150, evidenced by a written document in which Bishop Pudsey granted the Manor of Chopwell to the first Abbot of Newminster Abbey. Traditionally an area of coal mining, Chopwell was nicknamed “Little Moscow” because of strong support for the Communist Party. When you visit Chopwell, Walkfo brings Chopwell places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Chopwell Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Chopwell
Visit Chopwell – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 16 audio plaques & Chopwell places for you to explore in the Chopwell area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Chopwell places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Chopwell with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Chopwell places with Walkfo Chopwell to hear history at Chopwell’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Chopwell has 16 places to visit in our interactive Chopwell 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 Chopwell, 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 Chopwell places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Chopwell & the surrounding areas.
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16 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
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Best Chopwell places to visit
Chopwell has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Chopwell’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Chopwell’s information audio spots:
Whinfield coke works
Whinfield coke works was a large industrial complex located near Rowlands Gill in Tyne and Wear, North East England. The complex comprised a coking plant, alloy factory and power station. Waste heat from the plant provided heat for a power station later converted to generate electricity by burning coke.
Currock Hill
Currock Hill is a hill in Tyne and Wear, England, which at 259 m (850 ft) is the highest point in the county, and in the metropolitan borough of Gateshead. The name ‘currock’ comes from the Celtic word for a cairn or a stack of stones.
Chopwell Colliery
Chopwell Colliery was a coal mine situated at Chopwell, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. The pit was first sunk in 1781, and was closed on 25 November 1966. The colliery’s highest employment numbers were in 1921, when 2,185 people worked there.
Visit Chopwell plaques
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here Chopwell has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Chopwell 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 Chopwell using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Chopwell plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
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