Welcome to Visit Stevenston Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Stevenston
Visit Stevenston places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Stevenston places to visit. A unique way to experience Stevenston’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Stevenston as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Stevenston Walkfo Preview When you visit Stevenston, Walkfo brings Stevenston places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Stevenston Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Stevenston
Visit Stevenston – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 19 audio plaques & Stevenston places for you to explore in the Stevenston area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Stevenston places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Stevenston history
Stephan Loccard or Lockhart was granted a grant of land from Richard de Morville, Lord of Cunninghame and Constable of Scotland, around 1170. The town is first mentioned in a charter of c. 1240.
Why visit Stevenston with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Stevenston places with Walkfo Stevenston to hear history at Stevenston’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Stevenston has 19 places to visit in our interactive Stevenston 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 Stevenston, 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 Stevenston places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Stevenston & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 19 audio facts unique to Stevenston places in an interactive Stevenston map you can explore.”
Walkfo Stevenston tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Stevenston
Best Stevenston places to visit
Stevenston has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Stevenston’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Stevenston’s information audio spots:
Kilwinning Old Parish church Kilwinning Old Parish church is located (NS 30321 432940) on the site of the old Kilwinning Abbey, North Ayrshire, Scotland .
North Ayrshire North Ayrshire is one of 32 council areas in Scotland . It is located in the west central Lowlands with the Firth of Clyde to its west . It has a population of roughly 135,280 people with its largest settlements at Irvine and Kilwinning .
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Visit Stevenston plaques
1 plaques hereStevenston has 1 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Stevenston 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 Stevenston using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Stevenston plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Stevenston audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Stevenston allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Stevenston’s 19 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Stevenston freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Stevenston Map App
Our visit Stevenston map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Stevenston & 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 Stevenston tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Stevenston centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Stevenston area at LONG:-4.758, LAT:55.645.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Stevenston, 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.
Our Stevenston accommodation map shows places to stay & prices for when you visit Stevenston.
Things to do & visit in Stevenston / surrounding areas
● Stevenston Canal ● Piperheugh ● Auchenharvie ● Cunninghame ● Stevenston ● Saltcoats ● Kerelaw House ● Kerelaw Castle ● Ardrossan ● The Lands of Ashgrove ● Kilwinning ● Lodge Mother Kilwinning ● Kilwinning Old Parish church ● North Ayrshire ● Africa House ● Ardeer, North Ayrshire ● Kilwinning Abbey ● Saltcoats Town Hall ● Ardrossan Civic Centre
Getting to / around Stevenston – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Stevenston using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Stevenston places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Stevenston Public Transport Stations
Stevenston Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Ardeer Platform railway station
Stevenston railway station
Stevenston Moorpark railway station
Saltcoats railway station
Saltcoats North railway station
Ardrossan South Beach railway station
Ardrossan Town railway station
Ardrossan North railway station
Kilwinning railway station
Kilwinning East railway station
Ardrossan Harbour railway station
Ardrossan Montgomerie Pier railway station
Railways
Stevenston received its first railway station, Stevenston, on the line travelling from Ardrossan to Glasgow in 1840 . In 1888, a second railway station was opened on the new Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway . This line had a short life span and the station closed in 1932 . At one point, Ardeer Platform was in operation just south of the town serving the Nobel factory .
Canals
The Stevenston Canal of 1772 was the first commercial canal in Scotland . The canal was 2 miles (3 kilometres) long, had no locks, was 12 feet (3.7 metres) wide and had a depth of 4 ft (1.2 m) The Master Gott is thought to be the last remaining vestige .
Local Stevenston historians & Stevenston tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Stevenston? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Stevenston’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 Stevenston 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 Stevenston 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 Stevenston 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-Stevenston’ web pages (for example: www.visitStevenston.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