Welcome to Visit Southmead Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Southmead
Visit Southmead places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Southmead places to visit. A unique way to experience Southmead’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Southmead as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Southmead Walkfo Preview The River Trym rises in Southmead and flows south west through Badock’s Wood, a Local Nature Reserve. The town of Filton (in South Gloucestershire), and the Bristol suburbs of Monks Park, Horfield, Henleaze and Westbury on Trym lie on its boundaries. When you visit Southmead, Walkfo brings Southmead places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Southmead Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Southmead
Visit Southmead – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 84 audio plaques & Southmead places for you to explore in the Southmead area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Southmead places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Southmead history
Southmead was a manor of the parish of Westbury on Trym. The manor house was mentioned in a document of 1319. Most of the estate of 313 acres (1.27 km) was sold in the late 19th century. Large-scale development of the area started in 1931, when Bristol Corporation built 1,500 houses.
Why visit Southmead with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Southmead places with Walkfo Southmead to hear history at Southmead’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Southmead has 84 places to visit in our interactive Southmead 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 Southmead, 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 Southmead places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Southmead & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 84 audio facts unique to Southmead places in an interactive Southmead map you can explore.”
Walkfo Southmead tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Southmead
Best Southmead places to visit
Southmead has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Southmead’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Southmead’s information audio spots:
South Purdown, Bristol South Purdown, Bristol, is an ancient green space located in north Bristol . The area of land is bordered by central Muller Road, Sir Johns Lane Allotment site, Stoke Park, Lockleaze Open Space and the Priory Hospital . It has been designated a Site of Nature Conservation Interest .
Pen Park Hole Pen Park Hole is a large cavern situated underground, at the edge of Filton Golf Course. The cavern was discovered accidentally in the 17th Century and the first descent was made by Captain Sturmy in 1669. Access to the entrance is tightly controlled by Bristol City Council.
North Bristol NHS Trust North Bristol NHS Trust is a National Health Service trust providing community healthcare and hospital services to Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset. Trust has over 8,000 staff delivering healthcare across Southmead Hospital, Cossham Hospital and Bristol Centre for Enablement. Medical teaching facilities are provided in association with the University of the West of England, Bristol University and Bristol University.
North Fringe of Bristol The North Fringe of Bristol lies between the M4 and M5 motorways. Its eastern edge is usually defined as the M32 motorway. The area falls within South Gloucestershire Council, and is northern part of Greater Bristol.
Horfield Barracks Horfield Barracks is a former military installation in the Horfield area of Bristol. It is located near the town of Horfield and is located on the outskirts of the city.
Diamond Cottage Diamond Cottage is a rustic cottage designed by John Nash (1752–1835) and George Stanley Repton (died 1858) in Blaise Hamlet, Bristol. The picturesque cottage is one of a group of ten built around 1810 as retirement homes for the servants of a wealthy banker.
MoD Abbey Wood MoD Abbey Wood is a Ministry of Defence establishment at Filton, Bristol, United Kingdom. It was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in July 1996. 15 government departments employing some 13,400 people relocated to the site.
HM Prison Bristol HMP Bristol (previously known as Horfield Prison) is a Category B men’s prison. It is located in the Horfield area of Bristol. The prison is operated by Her Majesty’s Prison Service.
The Old Lodge, Bristol The Old Lodge, also known as the Thatched Cottage and 166 Henleaze Road, was built around 1810. The lodge’s most unusual feature is the spy window on the ground floor. It is a Grade II listed building, first listed in 1977.
Redland, Bristol The suburb is situated between Clifton, Cotham, Bishopston and Westbury Park. The boundaries of the district are not precisely defined, but are generally taken to be Whiteladies Road in the west, the Severn Beach railway line in the south. Redland is also the name of a council ward, which covers a different area.
Visit Southmead plaques
10 plaques hereSouthmead has 10 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Southmead 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 Southmead using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Southmead plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Southmead audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Southmead allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Southmead’s 84 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Southmead freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Southmead Map App
Our visit Southmead map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Southmead & 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 Southmead tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Southmead centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Southmead area at LONG:-2.6028, LAT:51.5039.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Southmead, 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 Southmead / surrounding areas
● Ashley (Bristol ward) ● South Purdown, Bristol ● Pen Park Hole ● Bristol Filton Airport ● Charlton, Bristol ● Brentry ● Bristol Arena ● Southmead ● Cribbs Causeway ● Catbrain ● Brentry Hospital ● RAF Filton ● Magnesian Conglomerate ● Aerospace Bristol ● Filton ● North Bristol NHS Trust ● Bristol Cars ● Monks Park ● Charlton Hayes ● Southmead Hospital ● Cribbs F.C. ● Patchway ● Wild Place Project ● Henbury ● Henbury Village Hall ● St Mary’s Church, Henbury ● Easter Compton ● Blaise Castle Estate ● North Fringe of Bristol ● Horfield Barracks
● Henleaze ● Diamond Cottage ● Blaise Hamlet ● Westbury-on-Trym ● Compton Greenfield ● Stoke Gifford depot ● Stoke Gifford Stadium ● Little Stoke ● Golden Hill, Bristol ● Horfield, Bristol ● Defence Procurement Agency ● MoD Abbey Wood ● Church of the Holy Trinity with St Edmund ● HM Prison Bristol ● Bishopston and Ashley Down ● Bishopston, Bristol ● The Old Lodge, Bristol ● Bristol County Ground ● Ashley Down ● George Petherbridge ● New Orphan Houses, Ashley Down, Bristol ● Westbury Park, Bristol ● Redland Green ● Redland, Bristol ● Redland Chapel ● Wills Hall ● Durdham Down ● Purdown BT Tower ● Quarry Steps, Durdham Down ● University of Bristol Botanic Garden ● Lockleaze ● Purdown ● Clifton Down ● Stoke Bishop ● Cheswick, South Gloucestershire ● Stoke Park, Bristol ● UWE Stadium ● Bewys Cross ● Lawrence Weston, Bristol ● Coombe Dingle, Bristol ● Sea Mills, Bristol ● Hazel Brook ● Kings Weston Hill ● University of the West of England, Bristol ● Bristol Robotics Laboratory ● Hallen, Gloucestershire ● Hallen A.F.C. ● Berwick, Gloucestershire ● Defence Equipment and Support ● The Breeze (Bristol) ● Holy Trinity Church, Westbury on Trym ● Brabazon, Bristol
Getting to / around Southmead – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Southmead using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Southmead places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Southmead Public Transport Stations
Southmead Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Charlton Halt railway station (Bristol)
North Filton Platform railway station
Henbury railway station
Filton Abbey Wood railway station
Patchway railway station
Hallen Halt railway station
Horfield railway station
Ashley Hill railway station
Redland railway station
Gloucester Road, Bristol
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Local Southmead historians & Southmead tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Southmead? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Southmead’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 Southmead 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 Southmead 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 Southmead 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-Southmead’ web pages (for example: www.visitSouthmead.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 Southmead places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Southmead places to visit. A unique way to experience Southmead’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Southmead as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Southmead places with Walkfo Southmead to hear history at Southmead’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Southmead has 84 places to visit in our interactive Southmead 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 Southmead, 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 Southmead places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Southmead & the surrounding areas.
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Trying to encourage visitors to Southmead?