Welcome to Visit Frenchay Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Frenchay
Visit Frenchay places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Frenchay places to visit. A unique way to experience Frenchay’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Frenchay as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Frenchay Walkfo Preview Frenchay was first recorded in 1257 as Fromscawe and later as Fromeshaw, meaning the wood on the Frome. The village is situated between the B4058 road, which runs parallel to the M32 motorway, and the wooded River Frome valley. Frenchay’s largest place of worship is the Anglican Church of St John the Baptist, adjacent to the large village common, which is overlooked by a number of 18th-century houses. When you visit Frenchay, Walkfo brings Frenchay places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Frenchay Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Frenchay
Visit Frenchay – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 70 audio plaques & Frenchay places for you to explore in the Frenchay area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Frenchay places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Frenchay with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Frenchay places with Walkfo Frenchay to hear history at Frenchay’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Frenchay has 70 places to visit in our interactive Frenchay 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 Frenchay, 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 Frenchay places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Frenchay & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 70 audio facts unique to Frenchay places in an interactive Frenchay map you can explore.”
Walkfo Frenchay tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Frenchay
Best Frenchay places to visit
Frenchay has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Frenchay’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Frenchay’s information audio spots:
Two Mile Hill, Bristol Two Mile Hill is a small district and parish on the eastern edge of the City of Bristol. It is just to the west of Kingswood which itself is in South Gloucestershire.
MoD Abbey Wood MoD Abbey Wood is a Ministry of Defence establishment at Filton, Bristol, United Kingdom. It was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in July 1996. 15 government departments employing some 13,400 people relocated to the site.
Lockleaze Lockleaze is 3 miles (5 km) north of the city centre, south of Filton, east of Horfield and west of Frenchay. The suburb was developed immediately after World War II. It is a residential area of social housing built on the western flank of Purdown on a north-south axis, that was separated from Horfield by the main Bristol to South Wales railway line.
Stoke Park, Bristol Stoke Park is a public open space of 108 hectares (270 acres) in Bristol. It occupies a prominent position on the eastern flanks of Purdown, alongside the M32 motorway. Approximately 80% of the park is within the Bristol ward of Lockleaze, the remainder within South Gloucestershire.
Page Park, Staple Hill Page Park is a park in the Staple Hill area of South Gloucestershire. In 1910, the park was donated to the people by Arthur William Page, the same year he was elected Alderman of the county. The park has a selection of sports fields, accommodating football and cricket teams. It was the start and finish place for the Kingswood Festival marathon in 1985.
St John the Baptist, Frenchay St John the Baptist is a church in the Frenchay area of Bristol, England. It was built in the 18th century. It is located in Frenchay, Bristol, and is located on the outskirts of Bristol.
Oldbury Court Estate Oldbury Court Estate is a park in Fishponds, Bristol, about 3 miles (4.8 km) north-east of the city centre. It is listed Grade II in English Heritage’s Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest. The parkland contains woods and riverside wildlife.
The Dower House, Stoke Park The Dower House, Stoke Park is one of Bristol’s more prominent landmarks. It was built in 1553 by Sir Richard Berkeley and used as a dower house by the Dukes of Beaufort at nearby Badminton House. The house was used as part of Stoke Park Hospital, previously Stoke Park Colony, from 1909. It closed as hospital wards in 1986 when the final remaining patients were moved to other wards.
Blackberry Hill Hospital Blackberry Hill Hospital is an NHS psychiatric hospital in Fishponds, Bristol. Opened as a prison in 1779, many of its buildings and the Glenside campus of the University of the West of England are Grade II listed. From 1948 until 2005, the site was also a geriatric hospital.
Bristol Robotics Laboratory The Bristol Robotics Laboratory is the largest academic centre for multi-disciplinary robotics research in the UK. It is the result of a collaboration between University of Bristol and the University of the West of England in Bristol and is situated on UWE’s Frenchay Campus.
Visit Frenchay plaques
3 plaques hereFrenchay has 3 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Frenchay 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 Frenchay using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Frenchay plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Frenchay audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Frenchay allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Frenchay’s 70 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Frenchay freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Frenchay Map App
Our visit Frenchay map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Frenchay & 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 Frenchay tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Frenchay centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Frenchay area at LONG:-2.5194, LAT:51.4979.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Frenchay, 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 Frenchay / surrounding areas
● St George West (ward) ● Barton Regis Rural District ● Peckett and Sons ● Eastville, Bristol ● Eastville Park ● Speedwell, Bristol ● Two Mile Hill, Bristol ● Bristol Community Church ● Whitefield’s Tabernacle, Kingswood ● Cossham Memorial Hospital ● Lodge Hill, Bristol ● Hillfields, Bristol ● Lodge Causeway ● Soundwell ● Mangotsfield ● Staple Hill, Gloucestershire ● St Michael’s Church, Winterbourne ● Winterbourne United F.C. ● Winterbourne, Gloucestershire ● Winterbourne Railway Cutting ● Huckford Viaduct ● Winterbourne Down, Gloucestershire ● Bradley Stoke ● Three Brooks Local Nature Reserve ● Great Stoke ● Kendleshire ● Stoke Gifford depot ● Stoke Gifford Stadium ● Defence Procurement Agency ● MoD Abbey Wood
● Purdown BT Tower ● Lockleaze ● Purdown ● Church of Holy Trinity, Stapleton ● Cheswick, South Gloucestershire ● Stapleton, Bristol ● Stoke Park, Bristol ● UWE Stadium ● Bristol and Bath Science Park ● Downend, South Gloucestershire ● Emersons Green ● Mangotsfield United F.C. ● Downend air crash ● Page Park, Staple Hill ● Watley’s End ● Frenchay ● Hambrook ● St John the Baptist, Frenchay ● Frenchay Hospital ● Mayfield Park, Bristol ● Fishponds ● Oldbury Court Estate ● Frome Vale (ward) ● St Matthias, Bristol ● Stoke Park Hospital ● The Dower House, Stoke Park ● University of the West of England, Bristol ● Snuff Mills ● Blackberry Hill Hospital ● Glenside, Bristol ● Beaufort War Hospital ● Glenside Museum ● Harry Stoke ● Bristol Robotics Laboratory ● Frome Valley Walkway ● Stoke Gifford ● Defence Equipment and Support ● The Breeze (Bristol)
Getting to / around Frenchay – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Frenchay using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Frenchay places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Frenchay Public Transport Stations
Frenchay Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Mangotsfield railway station
Winterbourne railway station
Filton Abbey Wood railway station
Horfield railway station
Staple Hill railway station
Fishponds railway station
Bristol Parkway railway station
A4174 road
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Local Frenchay historians & Frenchay tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Frenchay? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Frenchay’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 Frenchay 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 Frenchay 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 Frenchay 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-Frenchay’ web pages (for example: www.visitFrenchay.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 Frenchay places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Frenchay places to visit. A unique way to experience Frenchay’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Frenchay as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Frenchay places with Walkfo Frenchay to hear history at Frenchay’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Frenchay has 70 places to visit in our interactive Frenchay 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 Frenchay, 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 Frenchay places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Frenchay & the surrounding areas.
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Trying to encourage visitors to Frenchay?