Welcome to Visit Hackington Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Hackington
Visit Hackington places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Hackington places to visit. A unique way to experience Hackington’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Hackington as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Hackington Walkfo Preview Hackington is an ancient ecclesiastical parish, with the parish church dedicated to St Stephen. It is also the name of a modern civil parish immediately north of Canterbury, the main community of which is Tyler Hill. The original village was centred on a village green at the current day location of St Stephen’s Church, the Manwood Almshouses, and Ye Olde Beverlie public house. When you visit Hackington, Walkfo brings Hackington places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Hackington Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Hackington
Visit Hackington – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 72 audio plaques & Hackington places for you to explore in the Hackington area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Hackington places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Hackington with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Hackington places with Walkfo Hackington to hear history at Hackington’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Hackington has 72 places to visit in our interactive Hackington 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 Hackington, 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 Hackington places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Hackington & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Hackington tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Hackington
Best Hackington places to visit
Hackington has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Hackington’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Hackington’s information audio spots:
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Fordwich The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a redundant Anglican church in the small town of Fordwich, Kent. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade I listed building. The church is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
Marlowe Memorial The Marlowe Memorial is a statue and four statuettes erected in 1891 in Canterbury, England. The memorial comprises a bronze statue, The Muse of Poetry sculpted by Edward Onslow Ford. The statue is now situated outside the city’s Marlowe Theatre.
Old Palace, Canterbury The Old Palace, also known as the Archbishop’s Palace, is a historic building situated within the precincts of Canterbury Cathedral. It is the main residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury when in Canterbury.
St Mildred’s Church, Canterbury The Church of Saint Mildred is a partly Anglo-Saxon stone church in Canterbury. It is the only surviving pre-Norman church within the former city walls. It has been a Grade I listed building since 1949.
Chair of St Augustine The Chair of St Augustine or Cathedra Augustini (Latin) is the ceremonial enthronement cathedra chair of the Archbishop of Canterbury in Canterbury Cathedral, Kent.
Durovernum Cantiacorum Durovernum Cantiacorum was a town and hillfort (oppidum) in Roman Britain at the site of present-day Canterbury in Kent. It occupied a strategic location on Watling Street at the best local crossing of the Stour.
Canterbury Castle Canterbury Castle was one of the three original Royal castles of Kent (the other two being Rochester Castle and Dover Castle) It is a five-minute walk from Canterbury East Station and main bus station around City Wall.
St Thomas of Canterbury Church, Canterbury St Thomas of Canterbury Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Canterbury, Kent. It was built from 1874 to 1875 in the Gothic Revival style. It is situated on the corner of Burgate and Canterbury Lane, west of Lower Bridge Street.
Canterbury power station Canterbury power station supplied electricity to the City of Canterbury, Kent, England from 1900 to 1960. The small generating station was owned and operated by Canterbury Corporation until the nationalisation of the British electricity supply industry in 1948.
Dane John Mound The Dane John Mound was converted into a motte-and-bailey castle in the 11th century. It was turned into a civic park between 1790 and 1803.
Visit Hackington plaques
24 plaques hereHackington has 24 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Hackington 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 Hackington using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Hackington plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Hackington audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Hackington allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Hackington’s 72 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Hackington freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Hackington Map App
Our visit Hackington map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Hackington & 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 Hackington tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Hackington centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Hackington area at LONG:1.074, LAT:51.309.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Hackington, 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 Hackington / surrounding areas
● Denstroude ● Sturry ● Sturry Pit ● St Nicholas’ Church, Sturry ● Broad Oak, Kent ● Church of St Mary the Virgin, Fordwich ● Fordwich ● Calcott, Kent ● Wildwood Discovery Park ● Chequer’s Wood and Old Park ● Beverley Ground ● St. Dunstan’s, Canterbury ● Westgate, Canterbury ● Kent Museum of Freemasonry ● Westgate Hall, Canterbury ● Marlowe Theatre ● Marlowe Memorial ● Blackfriars, Canterbury ● Bus Company Island ● Eastbridge Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr, Canterbury ● Greyfriars, Canterbury ● Old Synagogue (Canterbury) ● Canterbury Heritage Museum ● Beaney House of Art and Knowledge ● City of Canterbury ● Canterbury ● Whitehall Dyke ● Old Palace, Canterbury ● St Mildred’s Church, Canterbury ● Canterbury Roman Museum
● Reginald Pole ● The Corona, Canterbury Cathedral ● Chair of St Augustine ● Durovernum Cantiacorum ● Diocese of Canterbury ● Canterbury Castle ● Whitefriars Shopping Centre ● Trinity Chapel ● St Thomas of Canterbury Church, Canterbury ● Whitehall Meadows ● Dane John Mound ● Kingsmead Stadium ● Catching Lives ● KMFM Canterbury ● St Augustine’s Abbey ● St Michael and All Angels Church, Harbledown ● Canterbury-St Martin’s hoard ● Canterbury Christ Church University ● Harbledown ● Hales Place ● HM Prison Canterbury ● CSR 97.4FM ● University of Kent ● St Martin’s Church, Canterbury ● British Cartoon Archive ● St Martin’s Mill, Canterbury ● Rough Common ● Howe Barracks ● Tyler Hill, Kent ● Tyler Hill Meadow ● Hackington ● Upper Harbledown ● Honey Hill, Kent ● Radfall ● West Blean and Thornden Woods ● Canterbury city walls ● Thomas Byrne (VC) ● Canterbury Cathedral ● Canterbury Guildhall ● Fordwich Town Hall
Getting to / around Hackington – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Hackington using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Hackington places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Hackington Public Transport Stations
Hackington Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Sturry railway station
Canterbury West railway station
Canterbury North Lane railway station
Canterbury power station
Canterbury East railway station
Canterbury Parkway railway station
Blean and Tyler Hill Halt railway station
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Local Hackington historians & Hackington tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Hackington? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Hackington’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 Hackington 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 Hackington 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 Hackington 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-Hackington’ web pages (for example: www.visitHackington.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