Welcome to Visit Sulhamstead Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Sulhamstead
Visit Sulhamstead places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Sulhamstead places to visit. A unique way to experience Sulhamstead’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Sulhamstead as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Sulhamstead is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire. It occupies an approximate rectangle of land south of the (Old) Bath Road (A4) between Reading and Thatcham. It has several small clusters of homes and woodland covering about a fifth of the land. When you visit Sulhamstead, Walkfo brings Sulhamstead places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Sulhamstead Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Sulhamstead
Visit Sulhamstead – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 34 audio plaques & Sulhamstead places for you to explore in the Sulhamstead area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Sulhamstead places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Sulhamstead history
The name Sulhamstead means ‘Narrow Valley Homestead’ and was given to the area by the first Saxon settlers. There is supposed to have been a Danish Camp of some sort there during the troubled times just before and during King Alfred’s reign. The inclosure of the two parishes was made by Act of Parliament, effective 1817.
Sulhamstead landmarks
Sulhamstead House
Sulhamstead House was built by Daniel May, son of the Basingstoke brewer, Charles May, in 1744. It was largely rebuilt in 1800 for William Thoyts, the High Sheriff of Berkshire. It refurbished in 1910 by William G Watson, created a baronet. In 1949, the house became headquarters of the Berkshire Constabulary. It is a Grade II listed building.
Folly Farm
Folly Farm is Grade I listed, being the highest category, as it is an exceptional example of Arts and Craft architecture. It was built around a small timber-framed cottage dating to around 1650. It is one of Lutyens’ best-known house designs.
Other buildings
The church of St Mary (formerly St Bartholomew) dates from the 13th century. The active village hall for Sulhamstead and Ufton is halfway down the road. The singer-songwriter Kate Bush lived in a large canalside home for several years.
Sulhamstead geography / climate
Sulhamstead’s immediate neighbours toward its northern border, the A4 road, are much more populous Theale which has the nearest railway station and shops and similarly low density Ufton Nervet. The core of its village was around the old demolished church, where inventor Samuel Morland’s father was once the vicar.
Why visit Sulhamstead with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Sulhamstead places with Walkfo Sulhamstead to hear history at Sulhamstead’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Sulhamstead has 34 places to visit in our interactive Sulhamstead 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 Sulhamstead, 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 Sulhamstead places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Sulhamstead & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo: Visit Sulhamstead Places Map
34 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
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Best Sulhamstead places to visit
Sulhamstead has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Sulhamstead’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Sulhamstead’s information audio spots:
RAF Theale
Royal Air Force Theale or more simply RAF Theale is located south of Theale, Berkshire, England. The following units were here at some point: No. 8 Elementary Flying Training School RAF No. 26 Elementary flying Training School. No. 2818 Squadron RAF Regiment Air Crew Disposal Unit.
Hosehill Lake
Hosehill Lake is a 23.6-hectare (58-acre) Local Nature Reserve west of Reading in Berkshire. It is owned by West Berkshire Council and managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
Folly Farm, Sulhamstead
Folly Farm is an Arts and Crafts style country house in Sulhamstead, West Berkshire, England. Built around a small farmhouse dating to c. 1650, the house was substantially extended in William and Mary style by Edwin Lutyens. The gardens, designed by Lutyen and Gertrude Jekyll, are Grade II* listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
Visit Sulhamstead plaques
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here Sulhamstead has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Sulhamstead 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 Sulhamstead using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Sulhamstead plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
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