Welcome to Visit Coalport Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Coalport
Visit Coalport places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Coalport places to visit. A unique way to experience Coalport’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Coalport as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Coalport Walkfo Preview Coalport is located on the River Severn in the Ironbridge Gorge, a mile downstream of Ironbridge. It lies predominantly on the north bank of the river; on the other side is Jackfield. The settlement was planned as a canal–river interchange by ironmaster William Reynolds. When you visit Coalport, Walkfo brings Coalport places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Coalport Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Coalport
Visit Coalport – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 41 audio plaques & Coalport places for you to explore in the Coalport area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Coalport places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Coalport with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Coalport places with Walkfo Coalport to hear history at Coalport’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Coalport has 41 places to visit in our interactive Coalport 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 Coalport, 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 Coalport places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Coalport & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 41 audio facts unique to Coalport places in an interactive Coalport map you can explore.”
Walkfo Coalport tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Coalport
Best Coalport places to visit
Coalport has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Coalport’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Coalport’s information audio spots:
Coalbrookdale Institute Coalbrookdale Institute is a former library and scientific institute. Dating from the mid-19th century it is now used as a youth hostel. It is a Grade II* listed building.
St Leonard’s Church, Linley St Leonard’s Church is in the hamlet of Linley, Shropshire, England. It is a redundant church under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade I listed building.
Sutton Maddock Sutton Maddock is a village and civil parish 16 miles (26 km) south east of Shrewsbury, in the Shropshire district. The parish includes the hamlet of Brockton. In 2011 the parish had a population of 254.
St Michael’s Church, Madeley St Michael’s Church, Madeley is one of three places of worship that constitute the Parish of Madeley, a Church of England parish. The parish is part of the Diocese of Hereford.
Blists Hill Victorian Town Blists Hill Victorian Town is an open-air museum built on a former industrial complex in Telford, Shropshire. The museum attempts to recreate the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Originally the museum was an industrial region consisting of a brick and tile works, blast furnaces and coal, iron and fire clay mines.
Ironbridge and Broseley railway station Ironbridge and Broseley railway station was a railway station with two through platforms on the Severn Valley Railway Line in Shropshire. It was demolished in 1966 to provide car parking space within Severn Gorge. Virtually all traces of station platforms, station building and goods shed have been swept away.
Broseley The first iron bridge in the world was built in 1779 across the Severn, linking Broseley with Coalbrookdale and Madeley. This contributed to the early industrial development in the Ironbridge Gorge, which is now part of a World Heritage Site.
Preens Eddy Preens Eddy is a settlement on the south bank of the River Severn, opposite Coalport. Its history lies at the heart of the industrial revolution.
Coalport East railway station Coalport East was a London and North Western Railway station at Coalport, situated on the north bank of the River Severn. It formed the terminus of the Coalport Branch Line which ran from Hadley Junction to Shrewsbury Line.
Coalport Bridge Coalport Bridge is a cast iron arch bridge between Coalport and Preens Eddy in Shropshire, England. It was built in the 1930s.
Visit Coalport plaques
25 plaques hereCoalport has 25 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Coalport 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 Coalport using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Coalport plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Coalport audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Coalport allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Coalport’s 41 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Coalport freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Coalport Map App
Our visit Coalport map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Coalport & 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 Coalport tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Coalport centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Coalport area at LONG:-2.449, LAT:52.618.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Coalport, 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 Coalport / surrounding areas
● Lightmoor Junction ● Coalbrookdale Coalfield ● Madeley Court ● Coalbrookdale ● Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron ● Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust ● Coalbrookdale Institute ● Haberdashers’ Abraham Darby ● Severn Way ● St Leonard’s Church, Linley ● Sutton Maddock ● Madeley, Shropshire ● St Michael’s Church, Madeley ● Blists Hill Victorian Town ● Kemberton ● Enginuity ● Ironbridge ● The Iron Bridge ● Jackfield ● Jackfield Tile Museum ● Museum of the Gorge, Ironbridge ● Merrythought ● Broseley Pipeworks ● Birchmeadow Playing Fields ● Hay Inclined Plane ● The Tuckies, Jackfield, Shropshire ● Albert Edward Bridge ● Tar Tunnel ● Broseley ● Preens Eddy
● Benthall, Shropshire ● The Werps ● Coalport China Museum ● Coalport ● Benthall Hall ● Coalport Bridge ● Buildwas Formation ● Willey, Shropshire ● Resolution (beam engine)
Getting to / around Coalport – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Coalport using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Coalport places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Coalport Public Transport Stations
Coalport Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Lightmoor Platform railway station
Green Bank Halt railway station
Madeley railway station (Shropshire)
Madeley Market railway station
Ironbridge and Broseley railway station
Coalbrookdale railway station
Jackfield Halt railway station
Coalport East railway station
Coalport West railway station
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Local Coalport historians & Coalport tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Coalport? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Coalport’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 Coalport 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 Coalport 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 Coalport 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-Coalport’ web pages (for example: www.visitCoalport.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
Visit Coalport places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Coalport places to visit. A unique way to experience Coalport’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Coalport as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Coalport places with Walkfo Coalport to hear history at Coalport’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Coalport has 41 places to visit in our interactive Coalport 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 Coalport, 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 Coalport places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Coalport & the surrounding areas.
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Trying to encourage visitors to Coalport?