Welcome to Visit Westhumble Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Westhumble
Visit Westhumble places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Westhumble places to visit. A unique way to experience Westhumble’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Westhumble as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Westhumble Walkfo Preview Westhumble is located 2 km (1.2 mi) north of Dorking, Surrey. The majority of the settlement is in the ecclesiastical Parish of Mickleham. The Mole Gap Trail runs through the village, crossing the North Downs Way less than 0.40 km (0.25 mi) south. When you visit Westhumble, Walkfo brings Westhumble places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Westhumble Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Westhumble
Visit Westhumble – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 36 audio plaques & Westhumble places for you to explore in the Westhumble area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Westhumble places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Westhumble history
The earliest mention of the ‘village’ is in the Assizes Rolls of 1248, in which it appears as Wystumble. The name is thought to derive from the Old English wice meaning wych elm and the Middle English stumbel meaning tree stump. The earliest archaeological evidence for human activity in the village is a large axe, typical of a “rough-out” axe produced during the Neolithic period.
Why visit Westhumble with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Westhumble places with Walkfo Westhumble to hear history at Westhumble’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Westhumble has 36 places to visit in our interactive Westhumble 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 Westhumble, 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 Westhumble places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Westhumble & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo Westhumble tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Westhumble
Best Westhumble places to visit
Westhumble has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Westhumble’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Westhumble’s information audio spots:
Bocketts Farm Bocketts Farm in Surrey is a visitor attraction farm set in the countryside on the slopes of the North Downs 1.6 miles (2.6 km) due south of Leatherhead.
Norbury Park Norbury Park is a swathe of mixed wooded and agricultural land associated with its Georgian manor house near Leatherhead and Dorking, Surrey. It occupies mostly prominent land reaching into a bend in the Mole in the parish of Mickleham.
St Joseph’s Church, Dorking St Joseph’s Church is a Roman Catholic Church in Dorking, Surrey. It was founded in 1872 with help from the Duke of Norfolk. It is situated in Falkland Grove in the town.
Dorking Caves The Dorking Caves are a network of manmade tunnels excavated in the soft sandstone of the Upper Greensand deposits beneath Dorkling in Surrey, England.
Deepdene House and Gardens Deepdene was an estate and country house occupying land to the southeast of Dorking, Surrey, England. The remains of the gardens are Grade II* listed with the adjoining Chart Park.
St Martin’s Church, Dorking St Martin’s Church is an Anglican parish church in Dorking, Surrey. It is a Grade II* listed building and surviving parts of the structure date back to the Middle Ages. It was refurbished to the designs of Henry Woodyer.
Vale of Holmesdale Holmesdale is a valley in South-East England that falls between the North Downs and the Greensand Ridge of the Weald. It stretches from Folkestone on the Kent coast, through Ashford, Harrietsham, Maidstone, Redhill, Reigate, Dorking, Gomshall, and Guildford.
Dorking West railway station Dorking West is one of three stations serving the town (Dorking Deepdene) It is 30 miles 42 chains (49.13 km) measured from London Charing Cross via Redhill. The station is unstaffed, and there is no ticket office at the station.
Pipp Brook The Pipp Brook is a left-bank tributary of the River Mole in Surrey. It rises at two main springs north of Leith Hill on the Greensand Ridge. It descends steeply in a northward direction before flowing eastwards along the Vale of Holmesdale. It discharges into the Mole at Pixham, Surrey.
Denbies Wine Estate Denbies Wine Estate, near Dorking, Surrey, has the largest vineyard in England. It has 265 acres under vines, representing more than 10 per cent of the plantings in the whole of the UK.
Visit Westhumble plaques
7 plaques hereWesthumble has 7 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Westhumble 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 Westhumble using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Westhumble plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Westhumble audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Westhumble allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Westhumble’s 36 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Westhumble freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Westhumble Map App
Our visit Westhumble map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Westhumble & 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 Westhumble tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Westhumble centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Westhumble area at LONG:-0.333, LAT:51.254.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Westhumble, 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 Westhumble / surrounding areas
● Bocketts Farm ● Cherkley Court ● Norbury Park ● Betchworth Castle ● Deepdene Terrace ● Glory Wood and Devil’s Den ● St Joseph’s Church, Dorking ● Dorking Caves ● Deepdene House and Gardens ● St Martin’s Church, Dorking ● Milton Heath and The Nower ● Vale of Holmesdale ● Dorking Wanderers F.C. ● Milton Court ● Pixham ● Dorking Cricket Club Ground ● Westcott, Surrey ● Pipp Brook ● Denbies ● Denbies Wine Estate ● Ranmore Common SSSI ● Bookham F.C. ● Great Bookham ● Mole Gap Trail ● St. Michael’s Churchyard, Mickleham ● Mickleham, Surrey ● Polesden Lacey ● Juniper Hall ● High Ashurst ● Box Hill, Surrey
● Burford Bridge Hotel ● Mole Gap to Reigate Escarpment ● Westhumble ● Dorking
Getting to / around Westhumble – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Westhumble using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Westhumble places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Westhumble Public Transport Stations
Westhumble Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Dorking West railway station
Dorking Deepdene railway station
Dorking railway station
Box Hill & Westhumble railway station
Buses
London Buses route 465 from Dorking to Kingston passes by a stop for Box Hill roundabout. Service is half-hourly until the later evening when it is hourly.
Trains
Box Hill & Westhumble railway station is on the Mole Valley Line between Leatherhead and Dorking. The station is served by both Southern and South Western Railway.
Roads
The village is immediately west of the dual A24 between Dorking and Leatherhead. It has easy access after those towns to the M25 motorway, outer parts of London and Brighton.
Local Westhumble historians & Westhumble tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Westhumble? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Westhumble’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 Westhumble 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 Westhumble 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 Westhumble 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-Westhumble’ web pages (for example: www.visitWesthumble.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 Westhumble places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Westhumble places to visit. A unique way to experience Westhumble’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Westhumble as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Westhumble places with Walkfo Westhumble to hear history at Westhumble’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Westhumble has 36 places to visit in our interactive Westhumble 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 Westhumble, 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 Westhumble places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Westhumble & the surrounding areas.
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