Welcome to Visit Stockcross Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Stockcross
Visit Stockcross places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Stockcross places to visit. A unique way to experience Stockcross’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Stockcross as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Stockcross Walkfo Preview The village lies to the west of Newbury in the civil parish of Speen and the district of West Berkshire. Close to the cross-road in the middle of the village were the stocks hence the name Stock-Cross, which were removed in the early 1980s. When you visit Stockcross, Walkfo brings Stockcross places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Stockcross Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Stockcross
Visit Stockcross – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 60 audio plaques & Stockcross places for you to explore in the Stockcross area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Stockcross places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Stockcross with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Stockcross places with Walkfo Stockcross to hear history at Stockcross’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Stockcross has 60 places to visit in our interactive Stockcross 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 Stockcross, 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 Stockcross places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Stockcross & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Stockcross tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Stockcross
Best Stockcross places to visit
Stockcross has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Stockcross’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Stockcross’s information audio spots:
Phoenix Brewery The Phoenix Brewery (also known as Finns Brewery) was a brewery run by the Finns family in Newbury, Berkshire, UK.
Newbury Town Hall Newbury Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place in Newbury, Berkshire, England. The building is a Grade II listed building.
Parkway Newbury Parkway Newbury is a retail and residential development in Newbury, Berkshire. Includes 475,000 sq ft (44,000 m) of retail and restaurant accommodation and Marks & Spencer.
Donnington Friary Donnington Friary was a friary of crouched friars at Donnington in Berkshire. At the time of suppression the establishment was recorded as Trinitarian, but this was later corrected to Crossed Friars.
Donnington Castle Donnington Castle was founded by Sir Richard Abberbury the Elder in 1386. During the First English Civil War the castle was held by the royalist Sir John Boys and withstood an 18-month siege. Parliament voted to demolish the castle in 1646 and only the gatehouse survives.
Rack Marsh Rack Marsh is a 4-hectare (9.9-acre) nature reserve in Bagnor, on the north-western outskirts of Newbury in Berkshire. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
Benham Park Benham Park is 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Newbury within 500m of a junction of the A34 trunk road Newbury by-pass outside the town side. The house is a Grade II* listed building and park is Grade II.
Watermill Theatre The Watermill Theatre is a professional repertory theatre with charitable status. Established in 1967, it is a converted watermill beside the River Lambourn in Bagnor, Berkshire, England.
Elcot Park Hotel The Mercure Newbury Elcot Park Hotel is a four star country hotel belonging to Jupiter Hotels and franchised as part of the Mercure hotel chain. It is situated within 16 acres (65,000 m) of land in the locality of Elcot near Kintbury in Berkshire.
Sole Common Pond Sole Common Pond is a 3-hectare (7.4-acre) nature reserve south-west of Boxford in Berkshire in Berkshire. It consists of a Sphagnum fringed pond, heath, wet woodland and a wildflower meadow.
Visit Stockcross plaques
3 plaques hereStockcross has 3 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Stockcross 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 Stockcross using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Stockcross plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Stockcross audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Stockcross allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Stockcross’s 60 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Stockcross freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Stockcross Map App
Our visit Stockcross map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Stockcross & 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 Stockcross tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Stockcross centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Stockcross area at LONG:-1.375, LAT:51.4125.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Stockcross, 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.
Getting to / around Stockcross – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Stockcross using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Stockcross places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Stockcross Public Transport Stations
Stockcross Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Newbury West Fields Halt railway station
Speen railway station
Stockcross and Bagnor Halt railway station
Boxford railway station
Newbury railway station
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Local Stockcross historians & Stockcross tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Stockcross? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Stockcross’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 Stockcross 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 Stockcross 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 Stockcross 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-Stockcross’ web pages (for example: www.visitStockcross.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