Welcome to Visit Shortstown Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Shortstown
Visit Shortstown places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Shortstown places to visit. A unique way to experience Shortstown’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Shortstown as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Shortstown Walkfo Preview Shortstown is a village and civil parish on the outskirts of Bedford, on a ridge above the River Great Ouse, originally called Tinkers Hill. The name is taken from Short Brothers, who established an airship works for the Admiralty in 1916. When you visit Shortstown, Walkfo brings Shortstown places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Shortstown Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Shortstown
Visit Shortstown – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 60 audio plaques & Shortstown places for you to explore in the Shortstown area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Shortstown places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Shortstown with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Shortstown places with Walkfo Shortstown to hear history at Shortstown’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Shortstown has 60 places to visit in our interactive Shortstown 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 Shortstown, 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 Shortstown places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Shortstown & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Shortstown tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Shortstown
Best Shortstown places to visit
Shortstown has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Shortstown’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Shortstown’s information audio spots:
Statue of John Bunyan, Bedford The statue was sculpted by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm and unveiled in 1874. It was commissioned by the Ninth Duke of Bedford and presented by him to Bedford town.
Old Town Hall, Bedford The Old Town Hall is a Grade II listed building in Bedford, Bedfordshire. It was the headquarters of Bedford Borough Council from 1892 to 2009.
Corn Exchange, Bedford Bedford Corn Exchange is located on St Paul’s Square in the Castle area of Bedford, Bedfordshire, England. It is located in the castle area of the Bedfordshire town.
Statue of John Howard, Bedford The statue of John Howard was erected in 1890, the centenary of Howard’s death. It stands on an ornate plinth inscribed with his date of birth and death, and the date of the statue’s erection.
Bedford Cauldwell Walk depot Bedford Cauldwell Walk depot is a maintenance depot on the Midland Main Line. A four road maintenance depot opened in 2004 to service trains, and was extended to a fifth road in 2009. The depot maintenance facility is currently mothballed. It is still in use for 12 car sidings for Class 700 rolling stock.
Heart Bedford Heart Bedford (formerly Chiltern Radio 96.9) was an Independent Local Radio station. It was based in the Priory Business Park in Bedfordshire.
List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Bedfordshire Bedfordshire is a county in the East of England. It is bounded by Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire. It has an area of 1,235 square kilometres (477 sq mi) and population estimated in 2015 at 630,000. The name is first recorded in the treaty in about 879 between King Alfred the Great and Guthrum.
List of local nature reserves in Bedfordshire Bedfordshire is the fourteenth most densely populated county of England. It is governed by three unitary authorities, Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Luton. The county town is Bedford, and the name is first recorded in the treaty in 879 between King Alfred the Great and Guthrum.
Visit Shortstown plaques
7 plaques hereShortstown has 7 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Shortstown 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 Shortstown using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Shortstown plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Shortstown audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Shortstown allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Shortstown’s 60 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Shortstown freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Shortstown Map App
Our visit Shortstown map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Shortstown & 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 Shortstown tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Shortstown centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Shortstown area at LONG:-0.4305, LAT:52.1106.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Shortstown, 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 Shortstown / surrounding areas
● Statue of John Bunyan, Bedford ● Bedford Rural District ● Bedford ● Star Club (rowing) ● Mid Bedfordshire District ● Old Town Hall, Bedford ● Bedford Civic Theatre ● Corn Exchange, Bedford ● Bedford Abbey ● St Paul’s Church, Bedford ● Shire Hall, Bedford ● Statue of John Howard, Bedford ● Borough Hall, Bedford ● The Bedford Sixth Form ● Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and St Cuthbert ● Castle, Bedford ● Caldwell Priory ● Bedford Castle ● Bedford Rowing Club ● Borough of Bedford ● Panacea Society ● Bedford Hospital ● Bedford River Festival ● Bedford Cauldwell Walk depot ● Kempston Barracks ● Bedford Carriage Sidings ● Cauldwell, Bedford ● Bedford Lunatic Asylum ● Newnham Priory ● University of Bedfordshire Theatre
● Goldington Bury ● Newnham, Bedford ● Goldington Power Station ● Priory Country Park ● Fenlake Meadows ● Kingsbrook, Bedford ● Cardington Artificial Slalom Course ● Elstow Abbey ● Harrowden, Bedfordshire ● Heart Bedford ● Shortstown ● Bedford F.C. ● Cardington Airfield ● Cardington, Bedfordshire ● Bedford Town F.C. ● Elstow ● Cotton End ● Wixams ● Herrings Green ● List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Bedfordshire ● Bedfordshire ● List of local nature reserves in Bedfordshire ● Cople Pits ● Church of All Saints, Cople ● Eastcotts Castle ● The Higgins Art Gallery & Museum ● John Bunyan Museum ● Eastcotts
Getting to / around Shortstown – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Shortstown using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Shortstown places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Shortstown Public Transport Stations
Shortstown Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Kempston and Elstow Halt railway station
Bedford St Johns railway station
Cardington railway station
Cardington Workmen’s Platform railway station
Goldington Road
172 High Street, Elstow
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Local Shortstown historians & Shortstown tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Shortstown? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Shortstown’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 Shortstown 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 Shortstown 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 Shortstown 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-Shortstown’ web pages (for example: www.visitShortstown.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