Visit Doulting Places

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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Doulting

  

Doulting Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Doulting

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Doulting history

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The parish of Doulting was part of the Whitstone Hundred. The parish includes the village of Bodden, which was founded in 1541. Notable former residents of the parish include Trish and Amrose Bowden. The village of Prestleigh was on the former Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway.

You can visit Doulting places with Walkfo Doulting to hear history at Doulting’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Doulting has 35 places to visit in our interactive Doulting 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 Doulting, 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 Doulting places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Doulting & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 35 audio facts unique to Doulting places in an interactive Doulting map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Doulting Places Map
35 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Doulting historic spots	Doulting tourist destinations	Doulting plaques	Doulting geographic features
Walkfo Doulting tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Doulting

  

Best Doulting places to visit

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Doulting has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Doulting’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Doulting’s information audio spots:

Market Cross, Shepton Mallet Market Cross in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, was built around 1500 and rebuilt in 1841. It is a Grade II* listed building, and has been scheduled as an ancient monument.

Merchant’s House, Shepton Mallet The Merchant’s House at Number 8, Market Place, Somerset, England was built around 1675. The date of construction was confirmed by dendrochronology. It has been designated as a Grade II* listed building.

Shepton Mallet F.C. Shepton Mallet Association Football Club are a football club based in Somerset, England. They are currently members of the Western League Premier Division and play at the Playing Fields.

Kilver Court Kilver Court is an historic house and gardens in Shepton Mallet, Somerset. The River Sheppey powered textile mills and it later became a factory, the headquarters of a leather-goods manufacturer. It is now used as a shopping centre.

Dinies Camp Dinies Camp is a univallate Iron Age hill fort enclosure in Mendip district of Somerset. The hill fort is situated approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) south-west from the village of Downhead.

Church of St Michael, Stoke St Michael The Anglican Church of St Michael in Stoke St Michael, Somerset, was built around 1400. It is a Grade II* listed building.

St James’ Church, East Cranmore St James’ Church is a former Church of England church in East Cranmore, Somerset. It was built in 1846 to replace an earlier church on the same site and closed in 1958. The church is a Grade II listed building.

HM Prison Shepton Mallet HMP Shepton Mallet, sometimes known as Cornhill, was the UK’s oldest operating prison. The prison was opened before 1625 but was already in poor repair by the end of the First English Civil War in 1646. It was expanded in 1790 but conditions were again criticised in a report of 1822. In 1930 the number of inmates had fallen and the prison was closed in 1930. Following the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 it was reopened as a military prison.

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