Welcome to Visit Pegswood Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Pegswood
Visit Pegswood places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Pegswood places to visit. A unique way to experience Pegswood’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Pegswood as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Pegswood is two miles (3 km) east of Morpeth and three miles (5 km) west of Ashington, with a population of around 3,280. It is on a small hill above the valley in which the village is situated, close to the River Wansbeck and to the river Brocks Burn. When you visit Pegswood, Walkfo brings Pegswood places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Pegswood Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Pegswood
Visit Pegswood – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 26 audio plaques & Pegswood places for you to explore in the Pegswood area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Pegswood places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Pegswood history
Pegswood started as a small farming settlement, but with the discovery of coal, the village expanded to accommodate miners in 1872. The original colliery shut in 1969, however the village is still classed as a pit village. Extensive open-pit mining still takes place in the area, but such operations remain controversial even when former sites are restored.
Why visit Pegswood with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Pegswood places with Walkfo Pegswood to hear history at Pegswood’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Pegswood has 26 places to visit in our interactive Pegswood 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 Pegswood, 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 Pegswood places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Pegswood & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 26 audio facts unique to Pegswood places in an interactive Pegswood map you can explore.”
Walkfo: Visit Pegswood Places Map
26 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
Pegswood historic spots | Pegswood tourist destinations | Pegswood plaques | Pegswood geographic features |
| Walkfo Pegswood tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Pegswood | |||
Best Pegswood places to visit
Pegswood has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Pegswood’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Pegswood’s information audio spots:
Northumberland Coalfield
Northumberland Coalfield extends from Shilbottle in the north to the boundary with County Durham along the River Tyne in the south.
Visit Pegswood plaques
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here Pegswood has 2 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Pegswood 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 Pegswood using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Pegswood plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
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