Welcome to Visit Tixall Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Tixall
Visit Tixall places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Tixall places to visit. A unique way to experience Tixall’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Tixall as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Tixall Walkfo Preview The place-name ‘Tixall’ is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Ticheshale. The name means ‘the hollow of the goats’ The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 239. When you visit Tixall, Walkfo brings Tixall places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Tixall Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Tixall
Visit Tixall – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 29 audio plaques & Tixall places for you to explore in the Tixall area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Tixall places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Tixall with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Tixall places with Walkfo Tixall to hear history at Tixall’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Tixall has 29 places to visit in our interactive Tixall 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 Tixall, 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 Tixall places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Tixall & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Tixall tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Tixall
Best Tixall places to visit
Tixall has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Tixall’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Tixall’s information audio spots:
Priory of St. Thomas near Stafford Priory of St. Thomas near Stafford was an Augustinian religious house. Founded in 1174, surrendered to the Crown in 1538, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Milford Hall Milford Hall is a privately owned 18th-century English country house at Milford, near Stafford. It is the family seat of the Levett Haszard family and is Grade II listed building.
Milford, Staffordshire Milford lies at the edge of Cannock Chase on the A513 road between Stafford and Rugeley. Just to the north of the village is the River Sow.
Tixall Gatehouse Tixall Gatehouse was used as a prison for Mary, Queen of Scots for two weeks in 1586. The gatehouse is a Grade I listed building.
Staffordshire County Museum Staffordshire County Museum is housed in the Servants’ Quarters of Shugborough Hall, Milford, near Stafford, England. It features a restored Victorian kitchen, laundry and brewhouse as well as permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions.
Shugborough Tunnel The Shugborough Tunnel is a 777-yard (710 m) railway tunnel on the Trent Valley line. It is located between Stafford station and Colwich Junction in Colwich, Staffordshire. It was built in 1846 and is the largest engineering work on the line. Both portals are grade II listed.
Bingley Hall, Stafford Bingley Hall is an exhibition hall located in Stafford, England, on the site of the Staffordshire County Showground. During the 1970s and 1980s it was a very popular concert venue.
St Mary’s Abbey, Colwich Saint Mary’s Abbey was a monastery of Roman Catholic nuns of the English Benedictine Congregation, founded in 1623 at Cambrai, Flanders, in the Spanish Netherlands. During the French Revolution, the community was expelled from France and settled at The Mount in 1836.
Shugborough inscription The Shugborough Inscription is a sequence of letters – O U O S V A V V, between the letters D M – carved on the 18th-century Shepherd’s Monument. It has never been satisfactorily explained, and has been called one of the world’s top uncracked ciphertexts.
Visit Tixall plaques
0 plaques hereTixall has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Tixall 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 Tixall using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Tixall plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Tixall audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Tixall allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Tixall’s 29 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Tixall freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Tixall Map App
Our visit Tixall map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Tixall & 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 Tixall tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Tixall centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Tixall area at LONG:-2.03407, LAT:52.80275.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Tixall, 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 Tixall / surrounding areas
● Berkswich ● Walton-on-the-Hill, Staffordshire ● Baswich ● Priory of St. Thomas near Stafford ● River Penk ● Milford Hall ● Milford, Staffordshire ● Brocton, Staffordshire ● Tixall ● Hixon, Staffordshire ● Colwich, Staffordshire ● Tixall Gatehouse ● Ingestre ● Way for the Millennium ● Tixall Wide ● Black country ring ● Haywood Junction ● Shugborough Hall ● Staffordshire County Museum ● River Sow ● Essex Bridge, Staffordshire ● Shugborough Tunnel ● Great Haywood ● Bingley Hall, Stafford ● Colwich rail crash ● St Mary’s Abbey, Colwich ● Little Haywood ● Hixon rail crash ● Shugborough inscription
Getting to / around Tixall – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Tixall using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Tixall places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Tixall Public Transport Stations
Tixall Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Great Haywood railway station
Milford and Brocton railway station
Hixon railway station
Ingestre railway station
Colwich railway station
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Local Tixall historians & Tixall tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Tixall? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Tixall’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 Tixall 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 Tixall 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 Tixall 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-Tixall’ web pages (for example: www.visitTixall.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