Welcome to Visit Virley Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Virley


Visit Virley PlacesVisit Virley places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Virley places to visit. A unique way to experience Virley’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Virley as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.

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Virley is one of the villages which suffered damage from the 1884 Colchester earthquake. The village church of St Mary’s was largely destroyed in the quake, though some ruins remain. When you visit Virley, Walkfo brings Virley places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

Virley Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Virley


Visit Virley – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit

With 18 audio plaques & Virley places for you to explore in the Virley area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Virley places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

Why visit Virley with Walkfo Travel Guide App?


Visit Virley PlacesYou can visit Virley places with Walkfo Virley to hear history at Virley’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Virley has 18 places to visit in our interactive Virley 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 Virley, 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 Virley places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Virley & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 18 audio facts unique to Virley places in an interactive Virley map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Virley Places Map
18 tourist, history, culture & geography spots


 

  Virley historic spots

  Virley tourist destinations

  Virley plaques

  Virley geographic features

Walkfo Virley tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Virley

  

Best Virley places to visit


Virley has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Virley’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Virley’s information audio spots:

Virley photo Great and Little Wigborough
Great and Little Wigborough is a civil parish about 6 miles (10 km) from Colchester, in the Colchester district, in Essex, England. In 2011 the parish had a population of 246. The parish touches Layer Breton, Layer-de-la-Haye, Layer Marney, Peldon, Salcott, Tollesbury and Tolleshunt Knights.
Virley photo Layer Marney
Layer Marney is a village and civil parish near to Tiptree, in the Colchester borough of Essex. In 2001 the population of the civil parish was 206. The village has a Tudor palace and church called Church of St Mary the Virgin.
Virley photo Oxley Meadow
Oxley Meadow is a 3.2 hectare nature reserve in Tolleshunt Knights, near Tiptree in Essex. The site has two meadows which are rich in flowers, including many green winged orchids. There is also a variety of common butterfly species, and hedgerows provide nesting sites for birds such as the lesser whitethroat.
Virley photo Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Baptist
The Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of St John the Baptist is a monastic community for both men and women. It is located in Tolleshunt Knights, near Maldon, Essex, and is the oldest Orthodox religious community in the UK. The community is distinctive in that it is a double monastery, consisting of both women and men.

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Visit Virley plaques


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Virley has 2 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Virley 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 Virley using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Virley plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.