Welcome to Visit Neatham Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Neatham
Visit Neatham places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Neatham places to visit. A unique way to experience Neatham’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Neatham as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Neatham is a Roman hamlet in the civil parish of Alton in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire. Its nearest town is Alton, which lies 1.6 miles (2.6 km) south-west from the hamlet. When you visit Neatham, Walkfo brings Neatham places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Neatham Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Neatham
Visit Neatham – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 24 audio plaques & Neatham places for you to explore in the Neatham area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Neatham places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Neatham history
Roman period – Vindomis
The lost Roman settlement of Vindomis is believed to be at Neatham. Its strategic importance lay in its being at the crossing of important roads: one from Winchester towards London and the other from Chichester to Silchester. The population at this time is estimated at have been 2,500.
Saxon period – Neatham
Neatham became a Saxon settlement, called Neatham, indicating the presence of a cattle market. For several centuries, Neatham remained the chief place in the area and the focal point of Neatham Hundred.
Norman period
Neatham Hundred was recorded as belonging to the Crown at the time of the Domesday Book in 1085. After the founding of Waverley Abbey in 1128, King Steven made a gift of Neatham for the Abbey to establish a Grange and an Oratory. Eventually, Neatham was eclipsed by Alton and the area was renamed the Alton Hundred.
Tudor period
When Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries, Neatham went into lay hands. Neatham became part of the parish of Binsted.
Modern day
Neatham is now a hamlet with a Manor House, a Grange, a mill, and a dozen cottages. In the 1980s, Neatham elected to be joined to Holybourne. Today, the hamlet lies along the Alton bypass between Alton and Farnham.
Why visit Neatham with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Neatham places with Walkfo Neatham to hear history at Neatham’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Neatham has 24 places to visit in our interactive Neatham 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 Neatham, 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 Neatham places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Neatham & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo: Visit Neatham Places Map
24 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
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Best Neatham places to visit
Neatham has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Neatham’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Neatham’s information audio spots:
Curtis Museum
The Curtis Museum was founded in 1865 by Dr William Curtis (1803–1881) Ownership of the museum was transferred to the Hampshire Cultural Trust in 2014.
King John’s Hill
King John’s Hill is a small multivallate hillfort, a fort with multiple defensive rings, and has been dated on ceramic evidence to approximately 100 BC. It was later reoccupied during the medieval period, with 13th–14th century AD building traces and pottery fragments.
Church of St Lawrence, Alton
The Church of St Lawrence, Alton is an Anglican parish church in Alton, Hampshire. It is a Grade I listed building and is notable both for the range of its architecture and for being the site of the Battle of Alton during the English Civil War.
Visit Neatham plaques
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here Neatham has 3 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Neatham 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 Neatham using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Neatham plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.