Welcome to Visit Leigham Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Leigham
Visit Leigham places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Leigham places to visit. A unique way to experience Leigham’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Leigham as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Leigham Walkfo Preview Leigham is the name of an area of Plymouth in the English county of Devon. Originally a hamlet and manor separate from the city. The place name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means ‘an open space in a wood’ The area is located to the north east of Plymouth itself. When you visit Leigham, Walkfo brings Leigham places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Leigham Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Leigham
Visit Leigham – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 57 audio plaques & Leigham places for you to explore in the Leigham area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Leigham places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Leigham with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Leigham places with Walkfo Leigham to hear history at Leigham’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Leigham has 57 places to visit in our interactive Leigham 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 Leigham, 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 Leigham places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Leigham & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Leigham tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Leigham
Best Leigham places to visit
Leigham has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Leigham’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Leigham’s information audio spots:
Mutley Baptist Church Mutley Baptist Church is a large Grade II building in Mutley Plain, Plymouth, Devon. It was designed by architect J. Ambrose in 1867.
Mutley Plain Mutley Plain is the main street of the dense suburb called Mutley. It was built as a smart tree-lined avenue in late Victorian times. The road is now a busy dual-carriageway, the B3250, with eight sets of traffic lights.
Mannamead Mannamead is a suburb of Plymouth in the county of Devon. It was an affluent Victorian and early Edwardian suburb with wide avenues such as Seymour Road, grand villas and Thorn Park.
Peverell Peverell is a neighbourhood of Plymouth in the English county of Devon. The 2001 Census estimated the population as 6,455, increasing dramatically to 13,553 at the 2011 census.
Fort Efford Fort Efford was built as a result of the Royal Commission on National Defence of 1859. It was armed with 21 guns, some of which flanked the nearby Laira Battery. By the early 1900s it had become obsolete as a defensive position and was disarmed. During the Second World War it was used for ammunition storage.
The Old Rectory, Plympton The Old Rectory is a grade II* listed townhouse in Plympton, Devon. It was listed on 23 April, 1952. The building was formerly the rectory for the Church of St Maurice.
Plumer Barracks Plumer Barracks was a military installation at Plymouth. It was a British military installation in the 1960s. It is located in the area of Plymouth.
Plymbridge Woods The woods are named after the historic Plymbridge, a Grade II listed bridge over the River Plym. Drake’s Trail passes through the woods providing a cycling and walking route.
Plymouth Marjon F.C. Plymouth Marjon Football Club is a football club based in Plymouth, Devon. They are currently members of the South West Peninsula League Premier Division East and play at The Campus on Derriford Road.
Fort Austin Fort Austin was built as a result of the Royal Commission on National Defence of 1859. Designed by Captain Edmund Frederick Du Cane, it was armed with fifteen guns and five mortars. During the Second World War it was used by the Devon and Cornwall Auxiliary Unit. It was sold by the War Office to Plymouth City Council in 1958.
Visit Leigham plaques
1 plaques hereLeigham has 1 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Leigham 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 Leigham using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Leigham plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Leigham audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Leigham allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Leigham’s 57 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Leigham freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Leigham Map App
Our visit Leigham map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Leigham & 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 Leigham tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Leigham centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Leigham area at LONG:-4.093, LAT:50.403.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Leigham, 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 Leigham / surrounding areas
● Greenbank, Plymouth ● Lipson ● Freedom Fields Hospital ● Michael Foot memorial ● Mutley Baptist Church ● Mutley Plain ● Mannamead ● Peverell ● BBC Radio Devon ● Laira Bridge ● Compton, Plymouth ● Hartley, Plymouth ● Fort Efford ● Efford ● Laira Traction & Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot ● Laira Battery ● Church of the Ascension, Crownhill ● Saltram House ● Crabtree, Plymouth ● Plymouth Coliseum ● Plympton Hundred ● The Old Rectory, Plympton ● Plympton ● Plympton Priory ● Plymouth Parkway F.C. ● Plumer Barracks ● Manadon ● Cann Quarry Canal ● Plymbridge Woods ● Leigham
● Boringdon Camp ● Crownhill ● Eggbuckland ● Crownhill Fort ● Bowden Fort ● Southway ● The Ship, Derriford ● Derriford Hospital ● Hospital Radio Plymouth ● Egg Buckland Keep ● Plymouth Marjon F.C. ● Forder Battery ● Plymouth Science Park ● Plymouth Marjon University ● RAF Roborough ● Fort Austin ● Plymouth City Airport ● Estover, Plymouth ● Tor Bridge High ● Woolwell ● Plympton House ● Boringdon Hall ● Plym Valley Railway ● Truro City F.C. ● Bolitho Park
Getting to / around Leigham – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Leigham using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Leigham places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Leigham Public Transport Stations
Leigham Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Lucas Terrace Halt railway station
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Local Leigham historians & Leigham tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Leigham? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Leigham’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 Leigham 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 Leigham 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 Leigham 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-Leigham’ web pages (for example: www.visitLeigham.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