Welcome to Visit Wanlip Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Wanlip
Visit Wanlip places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Wanlip places to visit. A unique way to experience Wanlip’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Wanlip as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Wanlip Walkfo Preview Wanlip is a small village and civil parish in the Charnwood district of Leicestershire, with a population of 305 at the 2011 census. It is a countryside village, north of Birstall, and west of Watermead Country Park and the River Soar. It won the 2008 Leicester and Rutland Best Village Competition for villages under 500. When you visit Wanlip, Walkfo brings Wanlip places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Wanlip Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Wanlip
Visit Wanlip – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 35 audio plaques & Wanlip places for you to explore in the Wanlip area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Wanlip places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Wanlip history
An Iron Age settlement was unearthed just to the north of Wanlip. An Anglo-Saxon cemetery was discovered during the building of Longslade School in 1958. The surnames of the three families who have owned the manor over eight centuries are: Walsh 1230-1526 Aston 1526-1626 Palmer 1626-today.
Why visit Wanlip with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Wanlip places with Walkfo Wanlip to hear history at Wanlip’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Wanlip has 35 places to visit in our interactive Wanlip 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 Wanlip, 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 Wanlip places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Wanlip & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Wanlip tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Wanlip
Best Wanlip places to visit
Wanlip has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Wanlip’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Wanlip’s information audio spots:
St Peter & St Paul’s Church, Syston St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Syston is a Grade I listed parish church in Syston, Leicestershire. It was built in the 1930s and is now a Grade II listed parish in the Church of England.
Syston Syston is a town and civil parish in the district of Charnwood in Leicestershire. The population was 11,508 at the 2001 census, rising to 12,804 at the 2011 census.
St Mary’s Church, Barkby St Mary’s Church, Barkby is the Church of England Parish Church for Barkby, Leicestershire. The church mostly dates from the 13th century. It was grade I listed in 1966.
St Mary & St John Church, Rothley St Mary & St John is a Church of England parish church in Rothley, England. It has a congregation of mixed ages and backgrounds. It aims “to reach out with the good news of Jesus Christ”
Beaumont Leys Beaumont Leys is a suburb and electoral ward in north-western Leicester. The population of the ward at the 2011 census was 16,480. Locally used in reference to the large housing estate, built within the administrative division.
Thurcaston Thurcaston is best known as the home to Bishop Hugh Latimer. It borders the villages of Anstey and Cropston, as well as the Leicester suburb of Beaumont Leys. The Rothley Brook flows through the village, separating it from the A46 Leicester Western Bypass.
Birstall, Leicestershire Birstall is a large village and civil parish within the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire. It is three miles north of Leicester city centre and is part of the wider Leicester Urban Area. The population of the village was only marginally lower than the neighbouring town of Syston at the 2001 census.
Highfield Rangers F.C. Highfield Rangers F.C. are based in the Rushey Mead area of Leicester. They are currently members of the Leicestershire Senior League Division One.
Birstall United F.C. Birstall United Football Club are currently members of the United Counties League Division One. The club are currently based in Birstall, near Leicester, in Leicestershire, England.
Visit Wanlip plaques
0 plaques hereWanlip has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Wanlip 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 Wanlip using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Wanlip plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Wanlip audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Wanlip allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Wanlip’s 35 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Wanlip freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Wanlip Map App
Our visit Wanlip map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Wanlip & 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 Wanlip tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Wanlip centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Wanlip area at LONG:-1.115, LAT:52.691.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Wanlip, 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 Wanlip / surrounding areas
● Cossington, Leicestershire ● Mountsorrel Meadows ● Rothley Imperial F.C. ● Cossington Meadows ● River Wreake ● St Peter & St Paul’s Church, Syston ● Syston ● Barkby ● St Mary’s Church, Barkby ● Barkby Thorpe ● Watermead Country Park ● Birstall Meadows ● Wanlip Meadows ● Wanlip Hall ● Thurmaston ● Wanlip ● Mountsorrel ● Rothley ● St Mary & St John Church, Rothley ● Rothley Temple ● Rothley Court ● Rothley Brook ● Beaumont Leys ● Belgrave, Leicester ● Belgrave Hall ● Thurcaston ● Birstall, Leicestershire ● Highfield Rangers F.C. ● Rushey Mead ● Birstall United F.C.
● Thurcaston and Cropston ● St Peter’s Church, Belgrave ● Church of St James the Great, Birstall
Getting to / around Wanlip – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Wanlip using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Wanlip places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Wanlip Public Transport Stations
Wanlip Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Cossington Gate railway station
Syston railway station
Rothley railway station
Belgrave and Birstall railway station
Red Hill filling station
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Local Wanlip historians & Wanlip tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Wanlip? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Wanlip’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 Wanlip 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 Wanlip 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 Wanlip 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-Wanlip’ web pages (for example: www.visitWanlip.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