Welcome to Visit Southchurch Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Southchurch
Visit Southchurch places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Southchurch places to visit. A unique way to experience Southchurch’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Southchurch as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Southchurch Walkfo Preview Southchurch is a district of Southend-on-Sea in Essex. It was an independent parish until 1897 and has a documented history dating back to the 9th century. When you visit Southchurch, Walkfo brings Southchurch places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Southchurch Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Southchurch
Visit Southchurch – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 49 audio plaques & Southchurch places for you to explore in the Southchurch area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Southchurch places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Southchurch history
In 824 AD, a Saxon thegn, Leofstan presented the manor of Southchurch to the monks of Canterbury. It is possible that the church from which Southchurch takes its name already existed beforehand.
Why visit Southchurch with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Southchurch places with Walkfo Southchurch to hear history at Southchurch’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Southchurch has 49 places to visit in our interactive Southchurch 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 Southchurch, 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 Southchurch places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Southchurch & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 49 audio facts unique to Southchurch places in an interactive Southchurch map you can explore.”
Walkfo Southchurch tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Southchurch
Best Southchurch places to visit
Southchurch has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Southchurch’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Southchurch’s information audio spots:
Southchurch Park Southchurch Park is a recreational park in the parish of Southchurch, Southend-on-Sea, Essex. The park is 12 hectares (30 acres) in area and contains sports pitches, formal gardens, a boating lake and a café.
Southchurch Hall Southchurch Hall is Grade I Listed Medieval moated house located in Southchurch, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. The Hall was home to farming families until the 1920s. In 1930 it was extensively restored and presented to the town by the Dowsett Family.
Southend Manor F.C. Southend Manor Football Club are currently members of the Essex Senior League and play at Southchurch Park. The club are currently a football club based in Essex, England.
Radio Essex Radio Essex is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to Essex, England via DAB and Mid and South Essex via FM, from studios in The Icon Building on Southend Seafront.
Southchurch Southchurch is a district of Southend-on-Sea in Essex. It was an independent parish until 1897 and has a documented history dating back to the 9th century.
The Railway Hotel, Southend The Railway Hotel is a pub in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. It is known for its live music and its vegan food. Wilko Johnson, David Bowie & Iggy Pop collaborator Geoff MacCormack and Teenage Fanclub drummer Brendan O’Hare attend.
The Ratman of Southend The Ratman of Southend-on-Sea, Essex, is an English urban legend. The story of the Ratman tells of an old homeless man seeking shelter from the cold in an underpass. He was set upon by a group of youths and beaten to near-death, cold and blood loss doing the rest.
Southend-on-Sea War Memorial Southend-on-Sea War Memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. It was unveiled by Lord Lambourne, the Lord Lieutenant of Essex and dedicated by the Bishop of Colchester on 27 November 1921. The memorial as-built is in the form of an obelisk flanked by stone flags and surrounded by a low screen wall.
Southend Central Museum The Central Museum is a museum in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. The museum was opened in April 1981 in a Grade II listed building that was previously Soutshend’s first free public library.
Havens (department store) Havens department store is a Grade II listed building based in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. It was the only remaining independent department store based in the borough of Southend on-Sea.
Visit Southchurch plaques
4 plaques hereSouthchurch has 4 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Southchurch 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 Southchurch using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Southchurch plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Southchurch audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Southchurch allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Southchurch’s 49 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Southchurch freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Southchurch Map App
Our visit Southchurch map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Southchurch & 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 Southchurch tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Southchurch centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Southchurch area at LONG:0.7383, LAT:51.5416.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Southchurch, 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 Southchurch / surrounding areas
● Sutton, Essex ● Kursaal (amusement park) ● Southchurch Park ● Southchurch Hall ● Southend Manor F.C. ● Rage (roller coaster) ● Adventure Island (amusement park) ● Brightwells ● Radio Essex ● Southend Pier ● Southend Pier Railway ● New Empire Theatre ● Southend Cliff Railway ● Southchurch ● Cliff Town Congregational Church ● The Railway Hotel, Southend ● Prittlewell Square ● J L Dixons ● Southend-on-Sea Corporation Tramways ● The Ratman of Southend ● Southend Stadium ● Southend-on-Sea War Memorial ● Southend Central Museum ● Genting Casino Westcliff ● Southend-on-Sea Lifeboat Station ● Our Lady Help of Christians and St Helen’s Church, Westcliff-on-Sea ● Thorpe Bay ● Beecroft Art Gallery ● Cliffs Pavilion ● Westcliff-on-Sea
● Southend-on-Sea ● Prittlewell ● Havens (department store) ● Southend Leisure & Tennis Centre ● Roots Hall ● Garon Park ● Prittlewell royal Anglo-Saxon burial ● Camp Bling ● Prittlewell Priory ● Palace Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea ● Fossetts Farm Stadium ● Southend University Hospital ● Shoeburyness Depot ● Gunners Park and Shoebury Ranges ● Shoeburyness Old Ranges ● North Shoebury ● Southend Civic Centre
Getting to / around Southchurch – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Southchurch using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Southchurch places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Southchurch Public Transport Stations
Southchurch Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Southend Airport railway station
Southend East railway station
Shore railway station
Southend Central railway station
Southend Victoria railway station
Pier Head railway station (Essex)
Prittlewell railway station
Thorpe Bay railway station
Westcliff railway station
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Local Southchurch historians & Southchurch tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Southchurch? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Southchurch’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 Southchurch 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 Southchurch 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 Southchurch 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-Southchurch’ web pages (for example: www.visitSouthchurch.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 Southchurch places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Southchurch places to visit. A unique way to experience Southchurch’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Southchurch as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
With 49 audio plaques & Southchurch places for you to explore in the Southchurch area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Southchurch places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
You can visit Southchurch places with Walkfo Southchurch to hear history at Southchurch’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Southchurch has 49 places to visit in our interactive Southchurch 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 Southchurch, 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 Southchurch places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Southchurch & the surrounding areas.
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Trying to encourage visitors to Southchurch?