Visit Hensingham Places

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

  

Hensingham Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Hensingham

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You can visit Hensingham places with Walkfo Hensingham to hear history at Hensingham’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Hensingham has 32 places to visit in our interactive Hensingham 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 Hensingham, 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 Hensingham places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Hensingham & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 32 audio facts unique to Hensingham places in an interactive Hensingham map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Hensingham Places Map
32 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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

  

Best Hensingham places to visit

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

Whitehaven Castle Whitehaven Castle is a Grade II listed building in Whitehaven, Cumbria. It is a historic building in the Cumbrian town of Whitehaven.

St James’ Church, Whitehaven St James’ Church is in High Street, Whitehaven, Cumbria, at the crossing with the top of Queen Street. It stands in an elevated position overlooking the town. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.

Kells, Whitehaven Kells is an area of Whitehaven in Cumbria, England, elevated on a cliff to the south of the town centre. The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 2,437. Kells was built as a coal mining community. A cable railway, the Corkickle Brake, was opened in 1881 to connect the pits at the top of the steep incline to the railway line below.

Mirehouse, Copeland Mirehouse is 1.5 miles south of the town of Whitehaven near the A595 road. The ward was 4,498 at the 2011 census. The West was referred to 09 side and the East as 07 side.

Moresby, Cumbria Moresby is a small village and civil parish in the Borough of Copeland in Cumbria, England. It had a population of 1,280 at the 2001 census, increasing to 1,997 at the 2011 Census. The name of the hall and the village is thought to come from a family who settled in the area.

Sandwith, Cumbria Sandwith is a former civil parish about 7 miles from Workington, now in the parish of Whitehaven, in the Copeland district of Cumbria. Sandwith was also a ward, in 2011 the ward had a population of 2463.

Bigrigg Bigrigg is 2 miles north of the town of Egremont on the A595 road. Deep hollows in the area attest to iron ore mining as far back as medieval times. The calcite deposits were considered to be of the highest quality.

St Leonard, Cleator St Leonard is a church in Cleator, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Calder and diocese of Carlisle. The church is a grade 2 listed building.

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