Welcome to Visit Keele Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Keele
Visit Keele places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Keele places to visit. A unique way to experience Keele’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Keele as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Keele is located in the Keele ward of the borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme with its name drawing from the old Anglo-Saxon Cȳ-hyll = “Cow-hill” The 2001 census indicated the parish had a population of 3,664,(increasing to 4,129 at the 2011 census) most of whom students at Keele University were students. When you visit Keele, Walkfo brings Keele places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Keele Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Keele
Visit Keele – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 25 audio plaques & Keele places for you to explore in the Keele area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Keele places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Keele with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Keele places with Walkfo Keele to hear history at Keele’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Keele has 25 places to visit in our interactive Keele 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 Keele, 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 Keele places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Keele & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 25 audio facts unique to Keele places in an interactive Keele map you can explore.”
Walkfo: Visit Keele Places Map
25 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
Keele historic spots | Keele tourist destinations | Keele plaques | Keele geographic features |
| Walkfo Keele tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Keele | |||
Best Keele places to visit
Keele has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Keele’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Keele’s information audio spots:
Hollywood Music Festival
The Hollywood Music Festival was held at Leycett in an area called Hollywood on the grounds of Ted Askey’s Lower (pig) Farm. It was notable for the first performance of Grateful Dead in the UK and also for the performance of Jose Feliciano and Mungo Jerry. The company responsible for the festival was Onista Ltd who promptly went bankrupt unable to pay festival staff.
Heighley Castle
Heighley Castle was completed by the Audley family in 1233 and for over 300 years was one of their ancestral homes. It was held for Charles I during the English Civil War and destroyed by Parliamentary forces in 1640s. The castle is on Historic England’s Heritage at Risk Register and described as being in ‘very bad’ condition.
Keele Hall
Keele Hall is a 19th-century mansion house at Keele, Staffordshire, England, now standing on the campus of Keele University and serving as the university conference centre. It is a Grade II* listed building.
Visit Keele plaques
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here Keele has 3 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Keele 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 Keele using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Keele plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
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