Welcome to Visit Throckley Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Throckley
Visit Throckley places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Throckley places to visit. A unique way to experience Throckley’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Throckley as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Throckley Walkfo Preview Throckley is a village located in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England, approximately 7 miles (11 km) west of Newcastle city centre. Hadrian’s Wall passed through the village, its course traced by the village’s main road, Hexham Road. The village is expanding with many new housing estates popping up since the mid 2000s. It also offers a supermarket, car shop, a range of hair salons, social clubs, three care homes for the elderly, two churches, a solarium, funeral parlour, working men’s club, an optometrist, medical surgery, and a Masonic hall. When you visit Throckley, Walkfo brings Throckley places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Throckley Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Throckley
Visit Throckley – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 36 audio plaques & Throckley places for you to explore in the Throckley area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Throckley places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Throckley with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Throckley places with Walkfo Throckley to hear history at Throckley’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Throckley has 36 places to visit in our interactive Throckley 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 Throckley, 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 Throckley places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Throckley & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 36 audio facts unique to Throckley places in an interactive Throckley map you can explore.”
Walkfo Throckley tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Throckley
Best Throckley places to visit
Throckley has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Throckley’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Throckley’s information audio spots:
Tyne Rowing Club Tyne Amateur Rowing Club (TARC) is the longest established rowing club on the River Tyne in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Milecastle 9 Milecastle 9 (Chapel House) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian’s Wall. Its remains exist partially as a low platform, and are located in West Denton (to the west of Newcastle upon Tyne)
Milecastle 10 Milecastle 10 (Walbottle Dene) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian’s Wall. It is located near to the modern village of Throckley in Tyne and Wear, northern England. It has been excavated several times and its walls located, though the remains have been damaged by ploughing.
Lemington Glass Works Lemington Glass Works was the site of glass production in Lemington, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, for over 200 years. All that remains now is its iconic last glass cone, a famous local landmark.
Holy Cross Church, Ryton Holy Cross Church is a Church of England parish church in Ryton, Tyne and Wear. The church is a Grade I listed building.
Crookhill Crookhill is an area of Ryton in Tyne and Wear, England. The original terraced housing was built mostly as accommodation for NCB workers.
Stella Park Stella Park is a housing estate in Blaydon-on-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England. It is located on the grounds of a mansion of the same name.
Milecastle 11 Milecastle 11 was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian’s Wall. No remains exist, but the measured position is the middle of the old village of Throckley Bank Top, under the Working Men’s Club.
Milecastle 8 Milecastle 8 (West Denton) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian’s Wall. Its remains are located in West Denton, Newcastle upon Tyne. The milecastle has two associated turret structures that are known as turret 8A and turret 8B.
Close House, Northumberland Close House is a country estate near Heddon-on-the-Wall, Northumberland. The estate contains a Grade II* listed former mansion house, which is currently a private residence.
Visit Throckley plaques
3 plaques hereThrockley has 3 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Throckley 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 Throckley using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Throckley plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Throckley audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Throckley allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Throckley’s 36 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Throckley freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Throckley Map App
Our visit Throckley map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Throckley & 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 Throckley tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Throckley centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Throckley area at LONG:-1.754, LAT:54.996.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Throckley, 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 Throckley / surrounding areas
● Newburn ● Tyne Rowing Club ● Newcastle University Boat Club ● Battle of Newburn ● Chapel House Estate ● Milecastle 9 ● Milecastle 10 ● Lemington Glass Works ● Lemington ● Holy Cross Church, Ryton ● Sugley ● Throckley ● Ryton, Tyne and Wear ● Crookhill ● Lemington Power Station ● Path Head Watermill ● Stella Park ● Denton, Newcastle upon Tyne ● Milecastle 11 ● West Denton ● Milecastle 8 ● Bank Top, Northumberland ● Studio West ● Clara Vale ● George Stephenson’s Birthplace ● British Masters ● Close House, Northumberland ● Heddon-on-the-Wall ● Westerhope ● Black Callerton
Getting to / around Throckley – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Throckley using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Throckley places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Throckley Public Transport Stations
Throckley Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Newburn railway station
Stella power stations
Ryton railway station
Lemington railway station
Heddon on the Wall railway station
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Local Throckley historians & Throckley tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Throckley? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Throckley’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 Throckley 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 Throckley 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 Throckley 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-Throckley’ web pages (for example: www.visitThrockley.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 Throckley places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Throckley places to visit. A unique way to experience Throckley’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Throckley as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Throckley places with Walkfo Throckley to hear history at Throckley’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Throckley has 36 places to visit in our interactive Throckley 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 Throckley, 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 Throckley places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Throckley & the surrounding areas.
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