Welcome to Visit Ticknall Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Ticknall
Visit Ticknall places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Ticknall places to visit. A unique way to experience Ticknall’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Ticknall as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Ticknall Walkfo Preview Ticknall is a small village and civil parish in South Derbyshire. The population of the civil parish (including Calke) at the 2011 Census was 642. It has three pubs, several small businesses, and a primary school. When you visit Ticknall, Walkfo brings Ticknall places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Ticknall Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Ticknall
Visit Ticknall – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 21 audio plaques & Ticknall places for you to explore in the Ticknall area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Ticknall places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Ticknall history
The old village of Tichenhalle is mentioned in the Domesday Book, and probably existed from Anglo-Saxon times. Ticknall was an estate village to Calke Abbey until late in the 20th century. It reached its heyday in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when the limeyards and brickmaking, tile and pottery industries were operating at maximum capacity.
Why visit Ticknall with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Ticknall places with Walkfo Ticknall to hear history at Ticknall’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Ticknall has 21 places to visit in our interactive Ticknall 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 Ticknall, 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 Ticknall places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Ticknall & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo Ticknall tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Ticknall
Best Ticknall places to visit
Ticknall has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Ticknall’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Ticknall’s information audio spots:
St Michael with St Mary’s Church, Melbourne St Michael and St Mary’s Church, Melbourne is a Grade I listed parish church in Derbyshire. It was built in the 1930s and is now a Grade II listed parish.
Melbourne Hall Melbourne Hall is a Georgian country house in Melbourne, Derbyshire, England. It was the seat of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. The hall is the origin of the name of Melbourne, Australia. The house is a Grade II* listed building.
Foremark Reservoir Foremark Reservoir (OS grid reference SK3324) is a reservoir in South Derbyshire owned by Severn Trent. It is also a 230-acre nature reserve open to the public for walking, fishing, bird watching and horse riding. Admission is free, but there is a charge for the use of the car park.
St George’s Church, Ticknall St George’s Church, Ticknall is a Grade II listed parish church in Derbyshire. It was built in the 1930s and is now a Grade I listed Grade II parish church.
Ticknall Tramway The Ticknall Tramway was a 12.8 mi (20.6 km) long 4 ft 2 in (1,270 mm) gauge horse-drawn plateway. It operated from 1802 to 1913.
Calke Abbey Calke Abbey is a Grade I listed country house near Ticknall, Derbyshire, in the care of the National Trust. The site was an Augustinian priory from the 12th century until its dissolution by Henry VIII. The present building was never actually an abbey, but is a Baroque mansion built between 1701 and 1704.
St Saviour’s Church, Foremark St Saviour’s Church, Foremark is a Grade I listed parish church in Foremark, Derbyshire. It was built in the 1930s and is now a Grade II listed parish.
Heath Wood barrow cemetery Heath Wood barrow cemetery is a Viking burial site near Ingleby, Derbyshire. It is located in Heath Wood Barrow, Heath Wood, a barrow in the area.
Foremarke Hall Foremarke Hall is a Georgian-Palladian country house and manor house. Completed in 1762, the Hall is located at the manor (hamlet) of Foremark, near the hamlets of Ingleby, Ticknall, Milton, and the village of Repton in South Derbyshire. It is the current home of the Repton Preparatory School.
Visit Ticknall plaques
1 plaques hereTicknall has 1 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Ticknall 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 Ticknall using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Ticknall plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Ticknall audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Ticknall allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Ticknall’s 21 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Ticknall freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Ticknall Map App
Our visit Ticknall map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Ticknall & 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 Ticknall tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Ticknall centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Ticknall area at LONG:-1.481, LAT:52.812.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Ticknall, 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 Ticknall / surrounding areas
● St Michael’s Church, Stanton by Bridge ● Hartshorne, Derbyshire ● South Derbyshire ● Melbourne, Derbyshire ● St Michael with St Mary’s Church, Melbourne ● Melbourne Hall ● Staunton Harold Reservoir ● Ingleby, Derbyshire ● Ticknall ● Foremark Reservoir ● St George’s Church, Ticknall ● Ticknall Tramway ● Calke Abbey ● Milton, Derbyshire ● St Saviour’s Church, Foremark ● Repton Prep ● Anchor Church ● Heath Wood barrow cemetery ● Dimminsdale ● Foremarke Hall ● Foremark
Getting to / around Ticknall – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Ticknall using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Ticknall places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Ticknall Public Transport Stations
Ticknall Notable Streets & Road Destinations
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Local Ticknall historians & Ticknall tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Ticknall? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Ticknall’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 Ticknall 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 Ticknall 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 Ticknall 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-Ticknall’ web pages (for example: www.visitTicknall.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 Ticknall places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Ticknall places to visit. A unique way to experience Ticknall’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Ticknall as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Ticknall places with Walkfo Ticknall to hear history at Ticknall’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Ticknall has 21 places to visit in our interactive Ticknall 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 Ticknall, 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 Ticknall places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Ticknall & the surrounding areas.
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