Welcome to Visit Hockerton Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Hockerton
Visit Hockerton places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Hockerton places to visit. A unique way to experience Hockerton’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Hockerton as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Hockerton Walkfo Preview Fewer than 60 houses are situated around the church, the Spread Eagle pub and village hall. The population at the 2011 Census was 146. The Hockerton Housing Project is the UK’s first earth sheltered, self-sufficient ecological development. When you visit Hockerton, Walkfo brings Hockerton places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Hockerton Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Hockerton
Visit Hockerton – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 21 audio plaques & Hockerton places for you to explore in the Hockerton area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Hockerton places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Hockerton with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Hockerton places with Walkfo Hockerton to hear history at Hockerton’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Hockerton has 21 places to visit in our interactive Hockerton 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 Hockerton, 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 Hockerton places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Hockerton & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Hockerton tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Hockerton
Best Hockerton places to visit
Hockerton has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Hockerton’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Hockerton’s information audio spots:
St Nicholas’ Church, Hockerton St Nicholas’ Church, Hockerton is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England. The church is situated in the village of Hockerton.
Upton Hall Upton Hall is the headquarters of the British Horological Institute in Upton, Newark and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire. It also houses the Museum of Timekeeping, a collection of clocks, watches and also a library.
British Horological Institute The British Horological Institute was founded by a group of clockmakers in 1858. It has its current premises at Upton Hall in Nottinghamshire, which includes a museum of clock history.
St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Upton St Peter and St Paul’s Church is a Grade I listed parish church in Upton, Newark and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire. It was built in the 1930s and is located in the area of Nottinghamshire and Newark. The church is situated in the village of Upton, which is also known as Sherwood.
St John of Jerusalem’s Church, Winkburn St John of Jerusalem’s Church, Winkburn is a Grade I listed parish church. It is located in Winkburn in the Church of England.
Southwell Racecourse Southwell Racecourse is located 2 miles (3 km) east of Southwell in Nottinghamshire. It is one of only six racecourses in the UK to have an all-weather track and is the only one with a Fibresand surface. National Hunt racing on a turf course also takes place at Southwell. Southwell was forced to close temporarily in December 2012 when flooding caused major damage to both the track and buildings on site.
Kirklington Hall Research Station Kirklington Hall Research Station was a geophysical research institute of BP in Kirklington, Nottinghamshire. During the 1950s it was the main research site of British Petroleum.
St Swithun’s Church, Kirklington St Swithun’s Church, Kirklington is a Grade II* listed parish church. It is located in Kirklington, Nottinghamshire.
Kirklington, Nottinghamshire Kirklington is an affluent village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire. Administratively it forms part of the Newark and Sherwood district. The population as of the 2011 census was 400. Kirklington once had a railway station on the Mansfield-Southwell line.
Visit Hockerton plaques
7 plaques hereHockerton has 7 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Hockerton 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 Hockerton using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Hockerton plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Hockerton audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Hockerton allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Hockerton’s 21 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Hockerton freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Hockerton Map App
Our visit Hockerton map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Hockerton & 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 Hockerton tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Hockerton centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Hockerton area at LONG:-0.93055277777778, LAT:53.101083333333.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Hockerton, 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 Hockerton / surrounding areas
● Hockerton ● Hockerton Housing Project ● St Nicholas’ Church, Hockerton ● Upton Hall ● British Horological Institute ● Upton, Newark and Sherwood ● St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Upton ● Winkburn Hall ● St John of Jerusalem’s Church, Winkburn ● Winkburn ● Southwell Rural District ● Newark and Sherwood ● Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham ● Southwell Minster ● Southwell, Nottinghamshire ● Holy Trinity Church, Southwell ● The Workhouse, Southwell ● Southwell Racecourse ● Kirklington Hall Research Station ● St Swithun’s Church, Kirklington ● Kirklington, Nottinghamshire
Getting to / around Hockerton – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Hockerton using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Hockerton places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Hockerton Public Transport Stations
Hockerton Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Southwell railway station
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Local Hockerton historians & Hockerton tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Hockerton? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Hockerton’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 Hockerton 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 Hockerton 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 Hockerton 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-Hockerton’ web pages (for example: www.visitHockerton.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