Welcome to Visit Simshill Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Simshill
Visit Simshill places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Simshill places to visit. A unique way to experience Simshill’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Simshill as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Simshill Walkfo Preview Simshill is 3.7 miles (6.0 km) south of the city centre. Adjacent areas include Cathcart, King’s Park, Croftfoot and Castlemilk. The area had a high concentration of residents of Irish heritage in the postwar period. When you visit Simshill, Walkfo brings Simshill places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Simshill Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Simshill
Visit Simshill – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 107 audio plaques & Simshill places for you to explore in the Simshill area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Simshill places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Simshill with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Simshill places with Walkfo Simshill to hear history at Simshill’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Simshill has 107 places to visit in our interactive Simshill 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 Simshill, 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 Simshill places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Simshill & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 107 audio facts unique to Simshill places in an interactive Simshill map you can explore.”
Walkfo Simshill tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Simshill
Best Simshill places to visit
Simshill has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Simshill’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Simshill’s information audio spots:
Mansewood Mansewood (Scots: Mansewid) is a residential district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated south of the River Clyde and is surrounded by the districts of Eastwood, Hillpark, Pollokshaws in Glasgow and Thornliebank and Giffnock.
East Renfrewshire East Renfrewshire is one of 32 council areas of Scotland . Until 1975, it formed part of the county of Renfreyshire for local government purposes . It was formed in 1996 as a successor to the Eastwood district, with the Levern Valley being annexed .
Muirend Muirend is situated about 4 miles (6.5 km) south of Glasgow city centre. The G44 postcode was rated as the most desirable area of Scotland to live in. Neighbouring areas include Cathcart, Merrylee and Newlands.
Cathcart Cemetery Cathcart Cemetery is a cemetery in East Renfrewshire, Scotland, which was opened in 1878 . It is named after the nearby neighbourhood of Cathcart on the southern outskirts of Glasgow, but does not actually fall within the city boundaries .
Strathbungo Strathbungo grew up as a small village built along the Pollokshaws Road, one of the main arteries leading southwards from the centre of Glasgow, adjoined by the Camphill Estate, now part of Queens Park. The feudal superiors, the Maxwells of Pollok, preferred the name Marchtown, and this name is seen on some old maps.
Burnside railway station Burnside railway station serves the Burnside and Blairbeth areas of the Royal Burgh of Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire, Greater Glasgow, Scotland . The station is located on the Newton branch of the Cathcart Circle Lines, which has been electrified since 1962 by British Railways .
St Andrew’s Cross, Glasgow St Andrew’s Cross, also known as Eglinton Toll, is a road junction in the south side of Glasgow, Scotland. The junction is known as the St Andrew Cross.
A730 road A730 road in Scotland runs between the centre of Glasgow and the south-eastern edge of the city’s urban area at Cathkin.
Visit Simshill plaques
14 plaques hereSimshill has 14 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Simshill 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 Simshill using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Simshill plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Simshill audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Simshill allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Simshill’s 107 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Simshill freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Simshill Map App
Our visit Simshill map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Simshill & 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 Simshill tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Simshill centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Simshill area at LONG:-4.2508333333333, LAT:55.81.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Simshill, 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.
● Langside ● Cathcart Castle ● Clarkston RFC ● Battlefield, Glasgow ● Dams to Darnley Country Park ● Overlee Playing Fields ● Simshill ● Battle of Langside ● Cathcart Old Church ● Glasgow Victoria Infirmary ● Mount Florida ● Lesser Hampden ● New Victoria Hospital ● Queen’s Park, Glasgow ● Hampden Park ● Scottish Football Hall of Fame ● Hampden Park (1873–83) ● King’s Park, Glasgow ● Crosshill Queen’s Park Church ● Camphill Queen’s Park Baptist Church ● Queen’s Park Govanhill Parish Church ● Croftfoot ● Langside Synagogue ● Castlemilk ● Toryglen Regional Football Centre ● Crossmyloof ● Titwood ● Crosshill, Glasgow ● Strathbungo ● Category Is Books ● Carmunnock ● Bogany Flats ● Cathkin Braes ● Castlemilk House ● Fernhill, South Lanarkshire ● Toryglen ● Rutherglen Glencairn F.C. ● Cathkin Park (1872–1903) ● Fireworks Village ● Govanhill Trinity Church ● Govanhill Picture House ● Strathbungo Parish Church ● Govanhill ● Govanhill Baths ● Burnside, South Lanarkshire ● Rutherglen Town Hall ● Rutherglen ● Rutherglen Castle ● Shawfield ● CamGlen Radio ● Polmadie TRSMD ● Shawfield Amateurs F.C. ● Rosebery Park ● Pollokshields Burgh Hall ● Pollokshields Parish Church ● Pollokshields Library ● Tramway (arts centre) ● St Ninian’s, Pollokshields, Glasgow ● Royal Samaritan Hospital ● St Andrew’s Cross, Glasgow ● Southern Necropolis ● Oatlands, Glasgow ● Braehead Park ● Rutherglen Bridge ● Polmadie Bridge ● Glasgow Rowing Club ● Barrowfield Park ● Thistle F.C. ● Giffnock ● Netherlee ● Clarkston, East Renfrewshire ● Busby, East Renfrewshire ● Scottish Football Museum ● Cathkin Park ● Polmadie
Getting to / around Simshill – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Simshill using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Simshill places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Simshill Public Transport Stations
Simshill Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Thornliebank railway station
Giffnock railway station
Williamwood railway station
Pollokshaws West railway station
Muirend railway station
Pollokshaws East railway station
Langside railway station
Clarkston railway station
Cathcart railway station
Shawlands railway station
Busby railway station
Mount Florida railway station
King’s Park railway station
Crossmyloof railway station
Queens Park railway station (Scotland)
Crosshill railway station
Pollokshields West railway station
Croftfoot railway station
Burnside railway station
Strathbungo railway station
Rutherglen railway station
Maxwell Park railway station
Pollokshields East railway station
Gushetfaulds railway station
A727 road
A749 road
Victoria Road drill hall
A730 road
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Local Simshill historians & Simshill tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Simshill? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Simshill’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 Simshill 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 Simshill 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 Simshill 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-Simshill’ web pages (for example: www.visitSimshill.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 Simshill places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Simshill places to visit. A unique way to experience Simshill’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Simshill as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Simshill places with Walkfo Simshill to hear history at Simshill’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Simshill has 107 places to visit in our interactive Simshill 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 Simshill, 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 Simshill places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Simshill & the surrounding areas.
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Trying to encourage visitors to Simshill?