Welcome to Visit Slad Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Slad
Visit Slad places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Slad places to visit. A unique way to experience Slad’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Slad as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Slad Walkfo Preview Slad is a village in the Slad Valley in Gloucestershire. It is about 2 miles (3 km) from Stroud on the B4070 road between Stroud and Birdlip. Laurie Lee’s novel Cider with Rosie is a description of growing up in the village. When you visit Slad, Walkfo brings Slad places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Slad Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Slad
Visit Slad – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 32 audio plaques & Slad places for you to explore in the Slad area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Slad places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Slad with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Slad places with Walkfo Slad to hear history at Slad’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Slad has 32 places to visit in our interactive Slad 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 Slad, 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 Slad places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Slad & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Slad tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Slad
Best Slad places to visit
Slad has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Slad’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Slad’s information audio spots:
Stroud General Hospital Stroud General Hospital is a health facility in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England. It is managed by Gloucesterhire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Swift’s Hill SSSI Swift’s Hill (grid reference SO877067) is a 9.15-hectare (22.6-acre) biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire. Site was notified in 1966 and renotified in 1984. It was purchased from Mr F R Elliott in 1967 and is referred to as Elliott Reserve by the trust.
Lypiatt Park Lypiatt Park is a medieval and Tudor manor house with notable nineteenth-century additions. The grounds include a fine group of medieval outbuildings. It is a Grade I listed building.
Rough Bank, Miserden Rough Bank, Miserden (grid reference SO907087) is a 9.2-hectare (23-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire. It was purchased by wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation in 2012.
Edge Common Edge Common (grid reference SO847092) is a 20.47-hectare (50.6-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire. The Common is in the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Painswick Lodge Painswick Lodge is a grade I listed house in Gloucestershire. The rubble stone building has been extensively remodelled since the 16th century. It was home to Lord of the Manor between 1530 and 1804.
Snows Farm Nature Reserve Snows Farm Nature Reserve (grid reference SO887081) is a 21.3-hectare (53-acre) nature reserve in Gloucestershire. The site is listed in the ‘Stroud District’ Local Plan, adopted November 2005, as a Key Wildlife Site.
Pitchcombe Pitchcombe is a village and civil parish 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Gloucester. The parish touches Harescombe, Painswick and Whiteshill and Ruscombe.
Visit Slad plaques
2 plaques hereSlad has 2 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Slad 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 Slad using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Slad plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Slad audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Slad allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Slad’s 32 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Slad freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Slad Map App
Our visit Slad map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Slad & 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 Slad tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Slad centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Slad area at LONG:-2.183333, LAT:51.766667.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Slad, 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.
● Eastcombe, Gloucestershire ● Nether Lypiatt Manor ● Bisley-with-Lypiatt ● Whiteshill, Gloucestershire ● Stratford Park ● Stroud District ● Subscription Rooms ● Old Town Hall, Stroud ● Stroud ● Five Valleys ● Frome Banks ● Church of All Saints, Stroud ● Stroud General Hospital ● Swift’s Hill SSSI ● Lypiatt Park ● Rough Bank, Miserden ● Lypiatt ● Bisley, Gloucestershire ● Bull Cross, The Frith and Juniper Hill ● Edge Common ● Edge, Gloucestershire ● Painswick ● Beacon House ● Court House, Painswick ● Painswick House ● Painswick Lodge ● Snows Farm Nature Reserve ● Sheepscombe ● Pitchcombe ● Cotswold Canals Trust
Getting to / around Slad – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Slad using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Slad places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Slad Public Transport Stations
Slad Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Stroud railway station
Stroud (Midland) railway station
Bowbridge Crossing Halt railway station
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Local Slad historians & Slad tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Slad? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Slad’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 Slad 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 Slad 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 Slad 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-Slad’ web pages (for example: www.visitSlad.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