Welcome to Visit Ockbrook Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Ockbrook
Visit Ockbrook places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Ockbrook places to visit. A unique way to experience Ockbrook’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Ockbrook as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Ockbrook Walkfo Preview Ockbrook lies about 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Derby. It is almost contiguous with the village of Borrowash, only separated by the A52. The population of this civil parish at the 2011 Census was 7,335. When you visit Ockbrook, Walkfo brings Ockbrook places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Ockbrook Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Ockbrook
Visit Ockbrook – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 33 audio plaques & Ockbrook places for you to explore in the Ockbrook area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Ockbrook places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Ockbrook history
There is evidence of human activity in Ockbrook as far back as the Mesolithic period (~8000BC) in the form of two bifacial cores of flint. A small greenstone axe head attests to Neolithic activity (4000 – 2500BC) No archaeological evidence has yet been discovered of Bronze Age activity in the village.
Why visit Ockbrook with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Ockbrook places with Walkfo Ockbrook to hear history at Ockbrook’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Ockbrook has 33 places to visit in our interactive Ockbrook 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 Ockbrook, 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 Ockbrook places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Ockbrook & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Ockbrook tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Ockbrook
Best Ockbrook places to visit
Ockbrook has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Ockbrook’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Ockbrook’s information audio spots:
Graham Street Prims F.C. Graham Street Prims Football Club is a football club based in Derby, England. They are currently members of the United Counties League Division One. They play at the Asterdale Sports Ground in the Spondon area of Derby.
Spondon Originally a small village, Spondon dates back to the Domesday Book. It became heavily industrialised in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Homestead, Spondon The Homestead is a nine-bedroom Georgian house in the conservation area of Spondon, Derby, England. It is Grade I listed.
St Stephen’s Church, Borrowash St Stephen’s Church, Borrowash, Derbyshire is a parish church in the Church of England. It was built in the 1930s.
Borrowash Methodist Church Borrowash Methodist Church is in Derbyshire. The church is located in the town of Borrowosh. It is the birthplace of the first Methodist Church in the UK.
St Werburgh’s Church, Spondon St. Werburgh’s Church, Spondon, is a parish church in the Church of England. It is located in Derbyshire.
Elvaston Castle Gothic Revival castle and surrounding parkland is run and owned by Derbyshire County Council. Country park has 200 acres (0.81 km) of woodlands, parkland and formal gardens. Grade II* Listed Elvaston Castle has been neglected and is in need of restoration.
St Bartholomew’s Church, Elvaston St Bartholomew’s Church, Elvaston is a Grade I listed parish church in Derbyshire. It was built in the 1930s and is now a Grade II listed parish.
Dale Abbey (ruin) Dale Abbey, also known as the Abbey of Stanley Park, was a religious house, close to Ilkeston in Derbyshire. It was affiliated to the Premonstratensians, an order of canons regular in which it played, at times, a leading part among English Houses.
Risley Hall, Derbyshire Risley Hall is a country house, now a hotel set in 17 acres (69,000 m) of private landscaped grounds. It comprises 35 bedrooms and several function rooms. The building’s main function is as a hotel and spa, but it also caters for weddings.
Visit Ockbrook plaques
0 plaques hereOckbrook has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Ockbrook 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 Ockbrook using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Ockbrook plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Ockbrook audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Ockbrook allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Ockbrook’s 33 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Ockbrook freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Ockbrook Map App
Our visit Ockbrook map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Ockbrook & 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 Ockbrook tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Ockbrook centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Ockbrook area at LONG:-1.372354, LAT:52.92.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Ockbrook, 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 Ockbrook / surrounding areas
● Borrowash Victoria A.F.C. ● Derwent Power Station ● Spondon ● The Homestead, Spondon ● British Celanese ● St Stephen’s Church, Borrowash ● Malt Shovel, Spondon ● Borrowash Methodist Church ● St Werburgh’s Church, Spondon ● Borrowash ● All Saints’ Church, Ockbrook ● Maurice D. G. Scott ● Ockbrook ● Ockbrook and Borrowash ● Elvaston Castle ● St Bartholomew’s Church, Elvaston ● South East Derbyshire Rural District ● Locko Preceptory ● Dale Abbey ● Dale Abbey (ruin) ● Borough of Erewash ● Risley Hall, Derbyshire ● Risley, Derbyshire ● Draycott, Derbyshire ● West Bridgford Methodist Church ● Soldiers and Sailors Sports Ground, Breaston ● Hopwell ● Hopwell Hall ● Locko Park ● Elvaston, Derbyshire
● Spondon Cricket Club
Getting to / around Ockbrook – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Ockbrook using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Ockbrook places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Ockbrook Public Transport Stations
Ockbrook Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Borrowash railway station
Draycott and Breaston railway station
Spondon railway station
Graham Street Prims F.C.
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Local Ockbrook historians & Ockbrook tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Ockbrook? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Ockbrook’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 Ockbrook 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 Ockbrook 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 Ockbrook 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-Ockbrook’ web pages (for example: www.visitOckbrook.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