Welcome to Visit Crawcrook Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Crawcrook
Visit Crawcrook places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Crawcrook places to visit. A unique way to experience Crawcrook’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Crawcrook as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Crawcrook Walkfo Preview Crawcrook is a semi-rural village close to the western border of Tyne and Wear in England. Traditionally an independent village in County Durham, it was incorporated into the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead on 1 April 1974. The population taken at the 2011 Census of the Gateshead ward (Crawcrook and Greenside) had increased to 8,841. When you visit Crawcrook, Walkfo brings Crawcrook places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Crawcrook Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Crawcrook
Visit Crawcrook – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 25 audio plaques & Crawcrook places for you to explore in the Crawcrook area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Crawcrook places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Crawcrook history
Crawcrook was a coal mining centre at the turn of the twentieth century. However the coal industry collapsed in the village during the 1950s and 1960s. As has happened to a number of other northern English villages, employment in tertiary industries has replaced the mining industry.
Why visit Crawcrook with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Crawcrook places with Walkfo Crawcrook to hear history at Crawcrook’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Crawcrook has 25 places to visit in our interactive Crawcrook 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 Crawcrook, 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 Crawcrook places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Crawcrook & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 25 audio facts unique to Crawcrook places in an interactive Crawcrook map you can explore.”
Walkfo Crawcrook tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Crawcrook
Best Crawcrook places to visit
Crawcrook has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Crawcrook’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Crawcrook’s information audio spots:
Tyne Rowing Club Tyne Amateur Rowing Club (TARC) is the longest established rowing club on the River Tyne in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Holy Cross Church, Ryton Holy Cross Church is a Church of England parish church in Ryton, Tyne and Wear. The church is a Grade I listed building.
Crookhill Crookhill is an area of Ryton in Tyne and Wear, England. The original terraced housing was built mostly as accommodation for NCB workers.
Milecastle 11 Milecastle 11 was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian’s Wall. No remains exist, but the measured position is the middle of the old village of Throckley Bank Top, under the Working Men’s Club.
Greenside, Tyne and Wear Greenside is a village in the extreme west of the Metropolitan County of Tyne and Wear. Once an independent village in County Durham, it became incorporated into Tyne & Wear in 1974 and then the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead in 1986.
Close House, Northumberland Close House is a country estate near Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland. The estate contains a Grade II* listed former mansion house, which is currently a private residence.
Newcastle University F.C. Newcastle University Football Club is a football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England. They are currently members of the Northern League Division Two and play at Kimberley Park, groundsharing with Prudhoe Town.
Prudhoe Town F.C. Prudhoe Town Football Club is a football club based in Northumberland, England. They play at Kimberley Park. The club is affiliated to the Northumberlands Football Association.
Prudhoe Prudhoe has a population of over 11,500, measured at 11,675 in the 2011 Census. Today, it has largely become a commuter town for nearby Newcastle.
Milecastle 12 Milecastle 12 was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian’s Wall. Its remains lay under Town Farm, Heddon-on-the-Wall, (just opposite the farm house)
Visit Crawcrook plaques
2 plaques hereCrawcrook has 2 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Crawcrook 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 Crawcrook using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Crawcrook plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Crawcrook audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Crawcrook allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Crawcrook’s 25 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Crawcrook freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Crawcrook Map App
Our visit Crawcrook map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Crawcrook & 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 Crawcrook tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Crawcrook centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Crawcrook area at LONG:-1.7898, LAT:54.9663.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Crawcrook, 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 Crawcrook / surrounding areas
● Newburn ● Tyne Rowing Club ● Newcastle University Boat Club ● Battle of Newburn ● Holy Cross Church, Ryton ● Ryton, Tyne and Wear ● Crookhill ● Path Head Watermill ● Milecastle 11 ● Bank Top, Northumberland ● Ryton Woodside ● High Spen ● Crawcrook ● Greenside, Tyne and Wear ● Clara Vale ● George Stephenson’s Birthplace ● Wylam Bridge ● British Masters ● Close House, Northumberland ● Heddon-on-the-Wall ● Newcastle University F.C. ● Prudhoe Town F.C. ● Prudhoe ● Milecastle 12 ● Ryton & Crawcrook Albion F.C.
Getting to / around Crawcrook – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Crawcrook using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Crawcrook places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Crawcrook Public Transport Stations
Crawcrook Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Newburn railway station
Ryton railway station
Heddon on the Wall railway station
Wylam railway station
North Wylam railway station
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Local Crawcrook historians & Crawcrook tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Crawcrook? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Crawcrook’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 Crawcrook 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 Crawcrook 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 Crawcrook 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-Crawcrook’ web pages (for example: www.visitCrawcrook.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 Crawcrook places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Crawcrook places to visit. A unique way to experience Crawcrook’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Crawcrook as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Crawcrook places with Walkfo Crawcrook to hear history at Crawcrook’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Crawcrook has 25 places to visit in our interactive Crawcrook 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 Crawcrook, 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 Crawcrook places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Crawcrook & the surrounding areas.
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