Welcome to Visit Hopwell Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Hopwell
Visit Hopwell places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Hopwell places to visit. A unique way to experience Hopwell’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Hopwell as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Hopwell Walkfo Preview Hopwell is a hamlet and civil parish in the south east of Derbyshire. It lies south of Dale Abbey and north of Draycott. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 33. When you visit Hopwell, Walkfo brings Hopwell places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Hopwell Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Hopwell
Visit Hopwell – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 33 audio plaques & Hopwell places for you to explore in the Hopwell area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Hopwell places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Hopwell history
Hopwell was a settlement in the Hundred of Morleystone and the county of Derbyshire. It had a recorded population of 14.3 households in 1086. The most notable building in the parish is Hopwell Hall, built in 1720. It was owned by five generations of the Pares family from 1786 to 1921.
Why visit Hopwell with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Hopwell places with Walkfo Hopwell to hear history at Hopwell’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Hopwell has 33 places to visit in our interactive Hopwell 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 Hopwell, 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 Hopwell places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Hopwell & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Hopwell tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Hopwell
Best Hopwell places to visit
Hopwell has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Hopwell’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Hopwell’s information audio spots:
Graham Street Prims F.C. Graham Street Prims Football Club is a football club based in Derby, England. They are currently members of the United Counties League Division One. They play at the Asterdale Sports Ground in the Spondon area of Derby.
Spondon Originally a small village, Spondon dates back to the Domesday Book. It became heavily industrialised in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Homestead, Spondon The Homestead is a nine-bedroom Georgian house in the conservation area of Spondon, Derby, England. It is Grade I listed.
St Stephen’s Church, Borrowash St Stephen’s Church, Borrowash, Derbyshire is a parish church in the Church of England. It was built in the 1930s.
Borrowash Methodist Church Borrowash Methodist Church is in Derbyshire. The church is located in the town of Borrowosh. It is the birthplace of the first Methodist Church in the UK.
Dale Abbey (ruin) Dale Abbey, also known as the Abbey of Stanley Park, was a religious house, close to Ilkeston in Derbyshire. It was affiliated to the Premonstratensians, an order of canons regular in which it played, at times, a leading part among English Houses.
Risley Hall, Derbyshire Risley Hall is a country house, now a hotel set in 17 acres (69,000 m) of private landscaped grounds. It comprises 35 bedrooms and several function rooms. The building’s main function is as a hotel and spa, but it also caters for weddings.
St Michael’s Church, Breaston St Michael’s Church, Breaston is a Grade I listed parish church in Breaston, Derbyshire. It is located in the town of Breaston in the county of Derby. The church was built in the 1930s and is now a Grade II listed parish.
Soldiers and Sailors Sports Ground, Breaston Soldiers & Sailors Sports Ground is located on the outskirts of the Civil Parish of Breaston, on Risley Lane, near the A52.
Locko Park Locko Park is a Grade II* listed country house in Erewash, near Spondon, Derbyshire. The main south facing block of the present house was built about 1725 out of locally sourced Keuper sandstone for the member of parliament, Robert Ferne. The name Locko derives from the old French word for rags, loques, in reference to strips of lint that were applied to sores.
Visit Hopwell plaques
0 plaques hereHopwell has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Hopwell 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 Hopwell using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Hopwell plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Hopwell audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Hopwell allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Hopwell’s 33 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Hopwell freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Hopwell Map App
Our visit Hopwell map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Hopwell & 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 Hopwell tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Hopwell centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Hopwell area at LONG:-1.35, LAT:52.92.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Hopwell, 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 Hopwell / surrounding areas
● Borrowash Victoria A.F.C. ● Derwent Power Station ● Spondon ● The Homestead, Spondon ● St Stephen’s Church, Borrowash ● Malt Shovel, Spondon ● Borrowash Methodist Church ● Borrowash ● All Saints’ Church, Ockbrook ● Maurice D. G. Scott ● Ockbrook ● Ockbrook and Borrowash ● South East Derbyshire Rural District ● Locko Preceptory ● Sandiacre ● Dale Abbey ● Dale Abbey (ruin) ● Borough of Erewash ● Risley Hall, Derbyshire ● Stanton by Dale ● Risley, Derbyshire ● Breaston ● St Michael’s Church, Breaston ● Draycott, Derbyshire ● West Bridgford Methodist Church ● Soldiers and Sailors Sports Ground, Breaston ● Hopwell ● Hopwell Hall ● Locko Park ● Spondon Cricket Club
● Stanton-by-Dale Cricket Club
Getting to / around Hopwell – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Hopwell using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Hopwell places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Hopwell Public Transport Stations
Hopwell Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Borrowash railway station
Draycott and Breaston railway station
Graham Street Prims F.C.
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Local Hopwell historians & Hopwell tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Hopwell? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Hopwell’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 Hopwell 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 Hopwell 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 Hopwell 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-Hopwell’ web pages (for example: www.visitHopwell.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