Welcome to Visit Gentleshaw Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Gentleshaw
Visit Gentleshaw places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Gentleshaw places to visit. A unique way to experience Gentleshaw’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Gentleshaw as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Gentleshaw is a village and hamlet in Staffordshire located about 5.8 miles (9.3 km) from Lichfield and 6.3 miles (10.1 km) north of Rugeley. Although it is now part of Longdon civil parish, it has a Parish Church and a primary school. When you visit Gentleshaw, Walkfo brings Gentleshaw places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Gentleshaw Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Gentleshaw
Visit Gentleshaw – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 22 audio plaques & Gentleshaw places for you to explore in the Gentleshaw area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Gentleshaw places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Gentleshaw with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Gentleshaw places with Walkfo Gentleshaw to hear history at Gentleshaw’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Gentleshaw has 22 places to visit in our interactive Gentleshaw 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 Gentleshaw, 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 Gentleshaw places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Gentleshaw & the surrounding areas.
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22 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
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Walkfo Gentleshaw tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Gentleshaw |
Best Gentleshaw places to visit
Gentleshaw has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Gentleshaw’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Gentleshaw’s information audio spots:
Burntwood
Burntwood is a former mining town and civil parish in Lichfield District in Staffordshire, England. It is approximately 4 miles (6 km) west of Lichfield and north east of Brownhills. The town is home to the smallest park in the UK, Prince’s Park, which is located next to Christ Church.
St Matthew’s Hospital
St Matthew’s Hospital was a mental health facility in Burntwood, Staffordshire, England. It was located in Nightingale Walk, Burntwal, and was established in the 1960s. The hospital was known for its mental health facilities.
Gentleshaw Common
Gentleshaw Common is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Staffordshire. It is an area of globally rare lowland heathland. Common plays host to a series of fun public events throughout the year.
Heath Hayes and Wimblebury
Heath Hayes and Wimblebury are two villages which form a civil parish in the Cannock Chase District of Staffordshire. The status of Heath Hayes has changed from a small village to a larger village with a great population.
Castle Ring
Castle Ring is an Iron Age hill fort situated high up on the southern edge of Cannock Chase (The Chase), Staffordshire, England. It is the highest point on The Chase with an elevation of 242 metres (794 feet) It is near the village of Cannocks Wood, south of Rugeley and north of Burntwood. There are excellent views over The Chase, the Trent Valley and Staffordshire more generally.
Farewell Priory
Farewell Priory was a Benedictine nunnery near Lichfield in Staffordshire. It was dissolved in 1527 as a by-product of Cardinal Wolsey’s scheme to establish Oxford University.
George’s Hayes
George’s Hayes is a nature reserve of the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust. It is an ancient woodland, about a mile south-west of the village of Longdon, between Rugeley and Lichfield in Staffordshire.
Visit Gentleshaw plaques
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here Gentleshaw has 7 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Gentleshaw 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 Gentleshaw using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Gentleshaw plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.