Welcome to Visit Gloucestershire Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Gloucestershire
Visit Gloucestershire places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Gloucestershire places to visit. A unique way to experience Gloucestershire’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Gloucestershire as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Gloucestershire Walkfo Preview Gloucestershire is a county in South West England . The county town is the city of Gloucester, and other principal towns include Cheltenham, Stroud, Tewkesbury, Cirencester, Dursley, Cinderford, and Lydney . Some northern parts of the county, including Long Marston and Welford-on-Avon, were transferred to Warwickshire in 1931 . When you visit Gloucestershire, Walkfo brings Gloucestershire places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Gloucestershire Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Gloucestershire
Visit Gloucestershire – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 25 audio plaques & Gloucestershire places for you to explore in the Gloucestershire area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Gloucestershire places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Gloucestershire history
Gloucestershire is a historic county mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the 10th century. It originally included Bristol, then a small town, and Bristol became a county in its own right in 1373. It later became part of the administrative County of Avon from 1974 to 1996.
Why visit Gloucestershire with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Gloucestershire places with Walkfo Gloucestershire to hear history at Gloucestershire’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Gloucestershire has 25 places to visit in our interactive Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire, 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 Gloucestershire places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Gloucestershire & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 25 audio facts unique to Gloucestershire places in an interactive Gloucestershire map you can explore.”
Walkfo Gloucestershire tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Gloucestershire
Best Gloucestershire places to visit
Gloucestershire has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Gloucestershire’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Gloucestershire’s information audio spots:
Brockworth Brockworth is a parish, village and district of Gloucester in Gloucestershire . It is located 4 miles southeast of central Gloucester, 6 miles southwest of Cheltenham and 11.5 miles (18.5 km) north of Stroud . During World War II the nearby village of Hucclecote at the Gloster Aircraft Company produced the famous Hawker Hurricane fighter .
Coopers Edge Coopers Edge is a new build suburb situated in Brockworth, Gloucester, between the city of Gloucester and the town of Cheltenham . Building began in 2007 at the foot of Coopers Hill .
Great Witcombe Great Witcombe is a village and civil parish 5 miles (8 km) south east of Gloucester, in the Tewkesbury district, in Gloucestershire . In 2001 the parish had a population of 80 .
Great Witcombe Roman Villa Great Witcombe Roman Villa was a villa built during the Roman occupation of Britain . It is located on a hillside near Gloucester in the English county of Gloucestershire .
Hucclecote Meadows Hucclecote Meadows (grid reference SO872163) is a 5.74-hectare (14.2-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest . The western area is also a Local Nature Reserve .
Heart Gloucestershire Heart Gloucestershire (formerly Severn Sound) was a local radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Heart network . It broadcast from studios in Gloucester . The transmitter was at Churchdown Hill, just west of the M5 .
Matson, Gloucester Matson is a suburb in the City of Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. It is located on the outskirts of the city centre.
Coney Hill Hospital Coney Hill Hospital was a mental health facility in Gloucester, England. It was located on the outskirts of Gloucester in the 1960s and 1960s.
Knap House Quarry, Birdlip Knap House Quarry, Birdlip is a 1.80-hectare (4.4-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire. The site is listed in the ‘Cotswold District’ Local Plan 2001-2011 (on line) as a Key Wildlife Site (KWS) and a Regionally Important Geological Site (RIGS)
Visit Gloucestershire plaques
0 plaques hereGloucestershire has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Gloucestershire plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Gloucestershire audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Gloucestershire allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Gloucestershire’s 25 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Gloucestershire freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Gloucestershire Map App
Our visit Gloucestershire map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Gloucestershire & 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 Gloucestershire tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Gloucestershire centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Gloucestershire area at LONG:-2.1666666666667, LAT:51.833333333333.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Gloucestershire, 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 Gloucestershire / surrounding areas
● Brockworth ● Brockworth Court ● Gloucester Business Park ● Gloucestershire ● Hucclecote ● Coopers Edge ● Great Witcombe ● Great Witcombe Roman Villa ● Hucclecote Meadows ● Chosen Hill, Gloucestershire ● Heart Gloucestershire ● Matson, Gloucester ● Coney Hill Hospital ● Abbeydale and Abbeymead ● Bondend ● Upton St Leonards ● Barnwood House Hospital ● Prinknash Abbey ● Cotswold Commons and Beechwoods ● Cranham, Gloucestershire ● Barrow Wake ● Knap House Quarry, Birdlip ● Kimsbury hill fort ● Cooper’s Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake ● Hucclecote (parish)
Getting to / around Gloucestershire – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Gloucestershire using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Gloucestershire places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Gloucestershire historians & Gloucestershire tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Gloucestershire? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Gloucestershire’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 Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire 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-Gloucestershire’ web pages (for example: www.visitGloucestershire.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 Gloucestershire places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Gloucestershire places to visit. A unique way to experience Gloucestershire’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Gloucestershire as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Gloucestershire places with Walkfo Gloucestershire to hear history at Gloucestershire’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Gloucestershire has 25 places to visit in our interactive Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire, 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 Gloucestershire places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Gloucestershire & the surrounding areas.
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