Welcome to Visit Flaxley Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Flaxley
Visit Flaxley places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Flaxley places to visit. A unique way to experience Flaxley’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Flaxley as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Flaxley Walkfo Preview Flaxley is a small settlement in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. It is located in between the larger villages of Westbury-on-Severn and Mitcheldean. The place-name is from the Old English words fleax and leah meaning place where flax is grown. When you visit Flaxley, Walkfo brings Flaxley places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Flaxley Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Flaxley
Visit Flaxley – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 28 audio plaques & Flaxley places for you to explore in the Flaxley area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Flaxley places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Flaxley history
The Forest of Dean was an important medieval ironworking region, and the earliest forge in Flaxley is recorded in the 12th century. Westbury Brook was the site of five water mills, and at Gun’s Mill was one of the main gun foundries of the English Civil War era. The earliest known forge was present as early as 1150 and at least five mills have been identified as utilising the waters of the valley.
Why visit Flaxley with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Flaxley places with Walkfo Flaxley to hear history at Flaxley’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Flaxley has 28 places to visit in our interactive Flaxley 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 Flaxley, 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 Flaxley places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Flaxley & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 28 audio facts unique to Flaxley places in an interactive Flaxley map you can explore.”
Walkfo Flaxley tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Flaxley
Best Flaxley places to visit
Flaxley has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Flaxley’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Flaxley’s information audio spots:
Plump Hill Dolomite Quarry Plump Hill Dolomite Quarry (grid reference SO661171) is a 4.5-hectare (11-acre) nature reserve in Gloucestershire in the Forest of Dean. The site is listed in the ‘Forest of Dean Local Plan Review’ as a Key Wildlife Site (KWS)
Edgehills Quarry Edgehills Quarry (grid reference SO660167) is a 0.4-hectare (0.99-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire. The site is listed in the ‘Forest of Dean Local Plan Review’ as a Key Wildlife Site (KWS)
Westbury Brook Ironstone Mine Westbury Brook Ironstone Mine (grid reference SO662166) is a 15.69-hectare (38.8-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1998.
Abenhall Abenhall is a small village in the English county of Gloucestershire, lying on the road between Mitcheldean and Flaxley in the Forest of Dean. The village is notable for its 14th century Church of St Michael, which is built of local red sandstone and has ornate contemporary carvings relating to the Forest’s principal industries.
Land Grove Quarry, Mitcheldean Land Grove Quarry, Mitcheldean (grid reference SO672185) is a 3.8-hectare (9.4-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire. The site is listed in the ‘Forest of Dean Local Plan Review’ as a Key Wildlife Site (KWS)
Edgehills Bog Edgehills Bog (grid reference SO660154) is a 0.66-hectare (1.6-acre) nature reserve in Gloucestershire in the Forest of Dean. Site is managed by the Gloucesterhire Wildlife Trust and held under agreement with the Forestry Commission since 1987.
Longhope Hill Longhope Hill (grid reference SO693185) is a 0.2-hectare (0.49-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1989.
Garden Cliff Garden Cliff (grid reference SO718128) is a 5.1-hectare (13-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1954.
Lightship 2000 Lightship 2000 (Welsh: Goleulong 2000) was a restored old red lightvessel with a cafe and chapel on board. During the redevelopment of Cardiff Bay, the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation called together the churches in Cardiff to discuss the role of Christianity in the Bay.
Visit Flaxley plaques
1 plaques hereFlaxley has 1 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Flaxley 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 Flaxley using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Flaxley plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Flaxley audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Flaxley allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Flaxley’s 28 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Flaxley freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Flaxley Map App
Our visit Flaxley map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Flaxley & 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 Flaxley tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Flaxley centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Flaxley area at LONG:-2.449576, LAT:51.834024.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Flaxley, 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 Flaxley / surrounding areas
● Plump Hill Dolomite Quarry ● Edgehills Quarry ● Westbury Brook Ironstone Mine ● Abenhall ● Land Grove Quarry, Mitcheldean ● Edgehills Bog ● Longhope ● The Mount, Nottswood Hill ● Longhope Hill ● Blaisdon ● Blaisdon Hall ● Wood Green Quarry & Railway Cutting ● Cinderford ● Cinderford Town A.F.C. ● Littledean ● Littledean Hall ● Cinderford Canal ● Blaize Bailey ● Littledean Camp ● Pope’s Hill ● Flaxley Abbey ● Flaxley ● Welshbury Hill ● Garden Cliff ● Newnham on Severn ● Westbury Court Garden ● Westbury-on-Severn ● Lightship 2000
Getting to / around Flaxley – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Flaxley using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Flaxley places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Flaxley Public Transport Stations
Flaxley Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Longhope railway station
Blaisdon Halt railway station
Newnham railway station
Ruddle Road Halt railway station
Grange Court railway station
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Local Flaxley historians & Flaxley tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Flaxley? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Flaxley’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 Flaxley 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 Flaxley 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 Flaxley 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-Flaxley’ web pages (for example: www.visitFlaxley.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 Flaxley places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Flaxley places to visit. A unique way to experience Flaxley’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Flaxley as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Flaxley places with Walkfo Flaxley to hear history at Flaxley’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Flaxley has 28 places to visit in our interactive Flaxley 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 Flaxley, 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 Flaxley places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Flaxley & the surrounding areas.
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