Welcome to Visit Horden Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Horden
Visit Horden places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Horden places to visit. A unique way to experience Horden’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Horden as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Horden Walkfo Preview Horden is a village and electoral ward in County Durham. It is situated on the North Sea coast, to the east of Peterlee, approximately 12 miles south of Sunderland. Main features include the Welfare and Memorial Parks and St Mary’s church. When you visit Horden, Walkfo brings Horden places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Horden Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Horden
Visit Horden – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 23 audio plaques & Horden places for you to explore in the Horden area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Horden places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Horden history
Horden has an Anglo-Saxon name that comes from an old word ‘horu’ meaning ‘dirty’ with the ‘den’ part of the name referring to the dene or valley. The first church in the village, St Hilda’s – now the church hall – was opened in 1904. The village continued to grow strongly, reaching a peak population of 15,000 in 1951. By 1964 there were 3 cinemas, cricket, rugby and football pitches and also a bowling green.
Why visit Horden with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Horden places with Walkfo Horden to hear history at Horden’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Horden has 23 places to visit in our interactive Horden 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 Horden, 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 Horden places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Horden & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 23 audio facts unique to Horden places in an interactive Horden map you can explore.”
Walkfo Horden tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Horden
Best Horden places to visit
Horden has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Horden’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Horden’s information audio spots:
Peterlee Community Hospital Peterlee Community Hospital is a health facility in Peterlee, County Durham, England. It is managed by North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust.
Castle Eden Dene Castle Eden Dene is the largest, and biologically the richest, of a series of deep ravines that have been incised through the Magnesian Limestone and overlying boulder clay of coastal Durham by streams flowing into the North Sea. Over 450 species of plants have been recorded in the wood, many of which date back to pre-medieval times.
Peterlee Town F.C. Peterlee Town F.C. are from Peterlee, England. They currently play in the Wearside Football League. Peterlee are currently in the Premier League.
Horden railway station Horden is a railway station on the Durham Coast Line, which runs between Newcastle and Middlesbrough via Hartlepool. The station is situated 10 miles 74 chains (20 km) south-east of Sunderland. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains. It opened on 29 June 2020, following a £10.55 million investment.
Apollo Pavilion The Apollo Pavilion, also known as the Pasmore Pavilion, is a piece of public art in the new town of Peterlee in County Durham in the North East of England. It was completed in 1969 and has been given a Grade-II* listing by English Heritage in December 2011.
Horden Colliery Horden Colliery was a coal mine situated near Peterlee in County Durham. It was situated in the area, near to Peterlee, County Durham, in the early 1900s.
Shotton Hall Shotton Hall is a Grade II listed building, formerly a mansion house, now operated by Peterlee Town Council as offices and a conference centre.
Blackhall Colliery railway station Blackhall Colliery railway station was located on the Durham Coast Line. It was located north of Blackhall Rocks and south of Horden.
Easington railway station Easington railway station was located on the Durham Coast Line between Horden and Seaham (originally Seaham Colliery) It was located between the stations at Horden and Seaham.
Visit Horden plaques
0 plaques hereHorden has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Horden 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 Horden using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Horden plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Horden audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Horden allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Horden’s 23 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Horden freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Horden Map App
Our visit Horden map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Horden & 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 Horden tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Horden centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Horden area at LONG:-1.315, LAT:54.764.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Horden, 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 Horden / surrounding areas
● Peterlee ● Peterlee Community Hospital ● Castle Eden Dene ● Darlington Town F.C. ● Horden ● Peterlee Town F.C. ● Yoden Village Quarry ● Apollo Pavilion ● Horden Colliery ● The Castle, Castle Eden ● Shotton Hall ● Hesleden ● Old Shotton ● Blackhall Colliery ● Little Thorpe ● Castle Eden ● Hulam Fen ● High Hesleden ● Easington Colliery ● Easington Colliery A.F.C. ● Easington, County Durham ● Easington District ● Blackhall Rocks
Getting to / around Horden – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Horden using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Horden places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Horden Public Transport Stations
Horden Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Horden railway station
Blackhall Colliery railway station
Easington railway station
Blackhall Rocks railway station
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Local Horden historians & Horden tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Horden? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Horden’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 Horden 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 Horden 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 Horden 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-Horden’ web pages (for example: www.visitHorden.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
Visit Horden places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Horden places to visit. A unique way to experience Horden’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Horden as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Horden places with Walkfo Horden to hear history at Horden’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Horden has 23 places to visit in our interactive Horden 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 Horden, 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 Horden places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Horden & the surrounding areas.
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