Welcome to Visit Sidcup Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Sidcup
Visit Sidcup places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Sidcup places to visit. A unique way to experience Sidcup’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Sidcup as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Sidcup Walkfo Preview When you visit Sidcup, Walkfo brings Sidcup places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Sidcup Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Sidcup
Visit Sidcup – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 54 audio plaques & Sidcup places for you to explore in the Sidcup area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Sidcup places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Sidcup history
Origins
Sidcup originated as a tiny hamlet on the road from Maidstone to London . According to Edward Hasted, Thomas de Sedcopp was owner of this estate in the 35th year of king Henry VI . Hasted described Sidcup in the latter part of the 18th century as “a small street of houses”
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Frognal House, birthplace of Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, converted for use as residential and nursing accommodation . Lamorbey House, now used by Rose Bruford College, Sidcup Place, bar and restaurant .
Sidcup geography / climate
Sidcup lies 2.8 miles (4.5 km) south-west of Bexleyheath; 4 miles (6.4 km) north-east of Bromley; 3.3 miles (5.3 km).
Why visit Sidcup with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Sidcup places with Walkfo Sidcup to hear history at Sidcup’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Sidcup has 54 places to visit in our interactive Sidcup 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 Sidcup, 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 Sidcup places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Sidcup & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 54 audio facts unique to Sidcup places in an interactive Sidcup map you can explore.”
Walkfo Sidcup tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Sidcup
Best Sidcup places to visit
Sidcup has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Sidcup’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Sidcup’s information audio spots:
Foots Cray Place Foots Cray Place was one of the four country houses built in England in the 18th century to a design inspired by Palladio’s Villa Capra near Vicenza . Built in 1754 near Sidcup, Kent, it was demolished in 1950 after a fire in 1949 .
Foots Cray Meadows Foots Cray Meadows is 97 hectares (240 acres) in size within the London Borough of Bexley . It borders the suburbs of Albany Park, Sidcup, North Cray and Ruxley . The River Cray runs through it in a north-easterly direction .
Kemnal Park Cemetery & Memorial Gardens Kemnal Park Cemetery & Memorial Gardens was opened in October 2013 by the Mayor of Bromley, Cllr Ernest Noad . It comprises 55 acres in total and has 30,000 burial plots . The cemetery is also listed as a ‘site of special interest’ due to its ancient woodland and diverse bird life .
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Visit Sidcup plaques
11 plaques hereSidcup has 11 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Sidcup 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 Sidcup using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Sidcup plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Sidcup audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Sidcup allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Sidcup’s 54 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Sidcup freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Sidcup Map App
Our visit Sidcup map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Sidcup & 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 Sidcup tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Sidcup centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Sidcup area at LONG:0.1024, LAT:51.4263.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Sidcup, 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 Sidcup / surrounding areas
● Foots Cray Place ● Loring Hall ● Foots Cray Meadows ● Blendon, London ● Lamorbey Park ● Blendon and Penhill (ward) ● North Cray ● Bexley ● King’s Head, Bexley ● Royal Oak, Bexleyheath ● Albany Park, Bexley ● Sidcup ● Sporting Club Thamesmead F.C. ● London Borough of Bexley ● Danson House ● Foots Cray ● Danson Park ● Bexley Hospital, Bexleyheath ● Frognal House ● Joyden’s Wood ● Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup ● Ruxley ● Hundred of Ruxley ● Blackfen ● Welling ● Longlands ● Ruxley Gravel Pits ● Falconwood ● Chislehurst Caves ● Derwent House
● Chislehurst Common ● Elmstead, London ● Chislehurst ● Darul Uloom London ● Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District ● Glebe F.C. ● Foxbury ● Scadbury Park ● Coldharbour Estate ● Bromley Rural District ● New Eltham ● Kemnal Park Cemetery & Memorial Gardens ● Metrogas F.C. ● Church of Holy Trinity, Eltham ● Avery Hill ● St Mary Cray ● St Paul’s Cray ● Orpington Urban District ● The Bull, St Paul’s Cray ● Lamorbey ● Red House, Bexleyheath ● Wyncham Stream
Getting to / around Sidcup – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Sidcup using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Sidcup places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Sidcup Public Transport Stations
Sidcup Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Albany Park railway station
Sidcup railway station
Bexley railway station
Chislehurst railway station
Mottingham railway station
New Eltham railway station
Falconwood railway station
St Mary Cray railway station
Park View Road
A210 road
National Rail
Sidcup station opened in October 1866, a month after the opening of the Dartford Loop Line . It is 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Sidcup town centre . The station provides the area with Southeastern services to London Charing Cross, London Cannon Street, Woolwich Arsenal, Dartford and Gravesend .
Roads
Sidcup High Street is on the A211, following in length the old London – Maidstone – Hythe road . The A211 starts just after Eltham High Street, in the middle running along the A20 Sidcup By-pass before ending at Foots Cray .
Buses
Sidcup is served by a number of Transport for London bus routes . These include 51, 160, 229, 233, 269, 286, 321, 492, 625, 669, B14 and R11 . These routes connect Sidcup with areas including Bexleyheath, Bromley, Catford, Crayford, Chislehurst, Dartford and Woolwich .
Local Sidcup historians & Sidcup tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Sidcup? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Sidcup’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 Sidcup 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 Sidcup 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 Sidcup 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-Sidcup’ web pages (for example: www.visitSidcup.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
Visit Sidcup places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Sidcup places to visit. A unique way to experience Sidcup’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Sidcup as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Sidcup places with Walkfo Sidcup to hear history at Sidcup’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Sidcup has 54 places to visit in our interactive Sidcup 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 Sidcup, 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 Sidcup places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Sidcup & the surrounding areas.
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Trying to encourage visitors to Sidcup?