Welcome to Visit Craigneuk Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Craigneuk
Visit Craigneuk places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Craigneuk places to visit. A unique way to experience Craigneuk’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Craigneuk as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Craigneuk Walkfo Preview Craigneuk is a suburb of Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It was originally part of Dalziel parish along with the other rural weaving villages of Flemington, Motherwell and Windmillhill. Mining of coal and iron ore in the 1840s lead to rapid population growth. When you visit Craigneuk, Walkfo brings Craigneuk places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Craigneuk Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Craigneuk
Visit Craigneuk – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 44 audio plaques & Craigneuk places for you to explore in the Craigneuk area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Craigneuk places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Craigneuk with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Craigneuk places with Walkfo Craigneuk to hear history at Craigneuk’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Craigneuk has 44 places to visit in our interactive Craigneuk 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 Craigneuk, 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 Craigneuk places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Craigneuk & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 44 audio facts unique to Craigneuk places in an interactive Craigneuk map you can explore.”
Walkfo Craigneuk tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Craigneuk
Best Craigneuk places to visit
Craigneuk has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Craigneuk’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Craigneuk’s information audio spots:
Cambusnethan House Cambusnethan House was designed by James Gillespie Graham and completed in 1820. It is listed on the Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland as a building facing “critical” risk. The house is two and three storeys high with turrets at each corner, a three-storey bow in the west elevation.
Motherwell Civic Centre Motherwell Civic Centre is the headquarters of North Lanarkshire Council. The building is a Category B listed building. It is located in Windmillhill Street in Motherwell, North Lanark, Scotland.
Motherwell Town Hall Motherwell Town Hall is a municipal facility in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire. The town hall was the headquarters of the Burgh of Motherwell and Wishaw Council. It is a Category C listed building.
David Colville & Sons David Colville & Sons opened its Dalzell Steel and Iron Works at Motherwell in 1872. By the first World War, it was the largest steel works in Scotland. Nationalised in 1951, it became part of the Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain. It was privatised in 1955 and the construction of Ravenscraig steelworks resulted in the closure of its other works.
Ravenscraig Ravenscraig was once the largest hot strip steel mill in western Europe. The steelworks closed in 1992 and is now almost totally demolished. The empty land was redeveloped in the 2010s, with new houses and services being built.
Ravenscraig steelworks The Ravenscraig steelworks consisted of an integrated iron and steel works and a hot strip steel mill. Motherwell was noted as the steel production capital of Scotland, nicknamed Steelopolis. The steel mill was one of four in the United Kingdom.
Shieldmuir railway station Shieldmuir railway station is a railway station in Craigneuk suburb of Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It lies on the West Coast Main Line, but is not served by mainline services. Local commuter services are provided via the Argyle Line by Abellio ScotRail on behalf of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport.
Cambusnethan Cambusnethan is a large village and suburb on the eastern edge of Wishaw, North Lanarkshire in Scotland. It is approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, straddling both sides of the A722 on a hill overlooking Wishaw.
South Wishaw Parish Church South Wishaw Parish Church is a Parish church of the Church of Scotland. It serves the Southern area of Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, serving the southern part of the town centre.
Dalziel Park Dalziel Park is located between the villages of Carfin, Cleland and Newarthill in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Other nearby settlements include the large town of Motherwell and the new town of Ravenscraig. The area consists of a residential estate, a sports facility (regarded as one of the best in Scotland) and a golf course.
Visit Craigneuk plaques
0 plaques hereCraigneuk has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Craigneuk 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 Craigneuk using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Craigneuk plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Craigneuk audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Craigneuk allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Craigneuk’s 44 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Craigneuk freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Craigneuk Map App
Our visit Craigneuk map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Craigneuk & 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 Craigneuk tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Craigneuk centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Craigneuk area at LONG:-3.953, LAT:55.779.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Craigneuk, 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 Craigneuk / surrounding areas
● Cambusnethan House ● Avon Water ● Ferniegair ● Airbles ● North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre ● Motherwell ● Motherwell Civic Centre ● Motherwell Shopping Centre ● Motherwell Town Hall ● David Colville & Sons ● Roman Catholic Diocese of Motherwell ● Motherwell Cathedral ● Dalzell House ● Motherwell TMD ● Muirhouse, North Lanarkshire ● Ravenscraig ● Ravenscraig steelworks ● Jerviston ● Craigneuk ● Newarthill ● Cambusnethan ● Carfin ● Netherton, North Lanarkshire ● University Hospital Wishaw ● Wishawhill ● Pather ● South Wishaw Parish Church ● Wishaw ● St Ignatius Church, Wishaw ● Greenhead (Wishaw)
● Overtown, North Lanarkshire ● Carfin Grotto ● Cleland Hospital ● Coltness ● Dalziel Park ● Greenhead Moss ● Fir Park ● Gowkthrapple ● Cleland, North Lanarkshire ● Motherwell (district) ● Wishaw House ● Spanish Civil War memorial, Motherwell
Getting to / around Craigneuk – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Craigneuk using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Craigneuk places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Craigneuk Public Transport Stations
Craigneuk Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Merryton railway station
Chatelherault railway station
Airbles railway station
Motherwell railway station
Flemington railway station (Scotland)
Shieldmuir railway station
Holytown railway station
Wishaw South railway station
Wishaw railway station
Carfin railway station
Cleland railway station
Cleland (Old) railway station
Overtown railway station
Cambusnethan railway station
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Local Craigneuk historians & Craigneuk tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Craigneuk? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Craigneuk’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 Craigneuk 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 Craigneuk 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 Craigneuk 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-Craigneuk’ web pages (for example: www.visitCraigneuk.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 Craigneuk places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Craigneuk places to visit. A unique way to experience Craigneuk’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Craigneuk as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Craigneuk places with Walkfo Craigneuk to hear history at Craigneuk’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Craigneuk has 44 places to visit in our interactive Craigneuk 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 Craigneuk, 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 Craigneuk places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Craigneuk & the surrounding areas.
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