Welcome to Visit Gosmore Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Gosmore


Visit Gosmore PlacesVisit Gosmore places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Gosmore places to visit. A unique way to experience Gosmore’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Gosmore as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.

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Gosmore is a hamlet in the parish of St Ippolyts near Hitchin in Hertfordshire. Bunyan’s Dell is a natural amphitheatre deep inside Wain Wood where the author of The Pilgrim’s Progress preached in secret when his faith was persecuted. When you visit Gosmore, Walkfo brings Gosmore places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

Gosmore Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Gosmore


Visit Gosmore – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit

With 45 audio plaques & Gosmore places for you to explore in the Gosmore area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Gosmore places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

Why visit Gosmore with Walkfo Travel Guide App?


Visit Gosmore PlacesYou can visit Gosmore places with Walkfo Gosmore to hear history at Gosmore’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Gosmore has 45 places to visit in our interactive Gosmore 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 Gosmore, 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 Gosmore places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Gosmore & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 45 audio facts unique to Gosmore places in an interactive Gosmore map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Gosmore Places Map
45 tourist, history, culture & geography spots


 

  Gosmore historic spots

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Walkfo Gosmore tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Gosmore

  

Best Gosmore places to visit


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

Gosmore photo River Purwell
The River Purwell is a chalk stream in Hertfordshire. Its source is springs which rise out of the chalk bedrock at St Ippolyts, forming Ippollitts Brook. The entire course of the stream is near Hitchin.
Gosmore photo Hitchin Priory
Hitchin Priory in Hitchin in Hertfordshire is today a hotel built in about 1700 on the site of a Carmelite friary founded in 1317. Parts of the original priory are incorporated in the existing building, which has been a Grade I listed building since 1951.
Gosmore photo Hitchin Museum and Art Gallery
The Hitchin Museum and Art Gallery was a local history museum in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. It told the story of the town’s social history and of the rural industries that contributed to its prosperity.
Gosmore photo Hitchin Cemetery
Hitchin Cemetery, also known as St John’s Road Cemetery, is the main burial ground for the town of Hitchin. It has been owned and managed by North Hertfordshire District Council since 1974. The cemetery is located on Hitchin Hill, with Standhill Road running along the north-western boundary.
Gosmore photo St Mary’s Church, Hitchin
St Mary’s Church is a Church of England parish church in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. It dates from the 14th and 15th centuries, with its tower dating from around 1190. The church has been Grade I listed since 1951. During the laying of a new floor in 1911, foundations of a more ancient Saxon church building were found.
Gosmore photo Butts Close
Butts Close is an 11-acre (45,000 m) park in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. The name refers to the archery butts that used to be on it during the Late medieval and Tudor times. During those years it was much larger but in the last centuries it was built on it.
Gosmore photo Minsden Chapel
Minsden Chapel is an isolated ruined chapel in the fields above the hamlet of Chapelfoot, near Preston, Hertfordshire. It is a roofless shell, partly surrounded by a small wood and accessible only by footpath.
Gosmore photo Church of St Mary the Virgin, Great Wymondley
St Mary’s Church is an active Anglican church in Great Wymondley, Hertfordshire. It is a Grade I listed building.

Visit Gosmore plaques


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Gosmore has 2 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Gosmore 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 Gosmore using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Gosmore plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.