Visit Kingswear Places

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

  

Kingswear Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Kingswear

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Kingswear history

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Kingswear is not mentioned in the Domesday Book. First documentary mention of Kingswear was c.1170 when William de Vinci gave the local church half of the land in the village. After the murder of Thomas Becket in 1170, Becket’s tomb in Canterbury became a place of pilgrimage. Pilgrims travelling by sea from further west used Kingswear as a landing place.

You can visit Kingswear places with Walkfo Kingswear to hear history at Kingswear’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Kingswear has 27 places to visit in our interactive Kingswear 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 Kingswear, 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 Kingswear places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Kingswear & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 27 audio facts unique to Kingswear places in an interactive Kingswear map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Kingswear Places Map
27 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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

  

Best Kingswear places to visit

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

Dartmouth A.F.C. Dartmouth Association Football Club is a football club based in Dartmouth, Devon. They are currently members of the South West Peninsula League Premier Division East and play at Long Cross.

Newcomen Memorial Engine The Newcomen Memorial Engine is a preserved beam engine in Dartmouth, Devon. It is the world’s oldest surviving steam engine. It was preserved as a memorial to the inventor of the beam engine.

Royal Castle Hotel The Royal Castle Hotel is a hotel in Dartmouth, Devon, England. Guests have included Queen Victoria, Sir Francis Drake, and Mary (who later became Mary II of England) The hotel was used as a location for the 1984 film “Ordeal by Innocence”

Townstal Townstal (anciently Tunstall, Townstall, etc.) is an historic manor and parish on elevated ground now forming part of the western suburbs of Dartmouth in Devon. St Clement’s Church, the parish church of Townstal, was formerly the mother church of Dartmouth. Within the parish was situated the estate of Mount Boone (now the site of Britannia Royal Naval College), in 1810 the residence of John Henry Seale (1780–1844)

Coleton Fishacre Coleton Fishacre is a 24-acre (97,000 m) garden and a house in the Arts and Crafts style, near Kingswear in Devon, England. The property has been in the ownership of the National Trust since 1982.

Greenway Estate Greenway, also known as Greenway House, is an estate on the River Dart near Galmpton in Devon. Once the home of Agatha Christie, it is now owned by the National Trust. The estate is served by a steam railway service from Paignton and Kingswear.

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