Welcome to Visit Wherstead Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Wherstead
Visit Wherstead places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Wherstead places to visit. A unique way to experience Wherstead’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Wherstead as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Wherstead Walkfo Preview When you visit Wherstead, Walkfo brings Wherstead places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Wherstead Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Wherstead
Visit Wherstead – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 93 audio plaques & Wherstead places for you to explore in the Wherstead area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Wherstead places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Wherstead with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Wherstead places with Walkfo Wherstead to hear history at Wherstead’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Wherstead has 93 places to visit in our interactive Wherstead 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 Wherstead, 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 Wherstead places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Wherstead & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Wherstead tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Wherstead
Best Wherstead places to visit
Wherstead has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Wherstead’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Wherstead’s information audio spots:
Ipswich Racecourse Ipswich Racecourse is an area of Ipswich in Suffolk, England, that was formerly a racecourse from 1710 to 1911 . It is located in the Ipswich area of Suffolk .
Ravenswood, Ipswich Ravenswood is sited on the old Ipswich Airport to the south-east of the town . The area has grown rapidly due to private housing development . The old airport building has been transformed into small flats .
Margaret Catchpole Public House The Margaret Catchpole Public House is a Grade II* listed building . Built in 1936 by the local architect Harold Ridley Hooper for Tolly Cobbold brewery . Most of its interior features have remained unaltered since the 1930s .
Alexandra Park, Ipswich Alexandra Park is situated between Grove Lane, Kings Avenue and Back Hamlet, Ipswich . Alexandra Park was built in the 1960s and 1970s .
Goldrood House Goldrood House is a Grade II listed building in Chantry, Ipswich, Suffolk . The building is currently part of St Joseph’s College .
Grafton House Grafton House is located on Russell Road (Ipswich) opposite Endeavour House . The building consists of mixed retail units at ground level including a coffee shop and 60,000 sq feet of office space .
Willis Building (Ipswich) The Willis Building is one of the earliest buildings designed by Norman Foster and Wendy Cheesman after establishing Foster Associates . Constructed between 1970 and 1975 for Willis Towers Watson, it is now seen as a landmark in the development of the ‘high tech’ architectural style .
Buttermarket Centre, Ipswich The Buttermarket Centre is a four-level, £65 million shopping centre in Ipswich, Suffolk . The centre was opened on 1 October 1992, comprising 270,000 square feet (25,000 m) over four levels . There is also a 430-space underground car park covering two levels under the centre .
Belstead Brook Hotel Belstead Brook Hotel in Ipswich, Suffolk is a building of historical significance . It was originally a 16th-century hunting lodge but was used later as a family residence . The property was then converted to a hotel which now provides accommodation and restaurant facilities .
St Lawrence Church, Ipswich St Lawrence Church is a Grade II* listed church in Ipswich, Suffolk, that is now used as a community centre . The 15th-century church has the oldest ring of five church bells in the world .
Visit Wherstead plaques
11 plaques hereWherstead has 11 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Wherstead 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 Wherstead using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Wherstead plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Wherstead audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Wherstead allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Wherstead’s 93 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Wherstead freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Wherstead Map App
Our visit Wherstead map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Wherstead & 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 Wherstead tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Wherstead centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Wherstead area at LONG:1.139, LAT:52.023.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Wherstead, 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 Wherstead / surrounding areas
● Ipswich Racecourse ● Ipswich Airport ● Ravenswood, Ipswich ● Ipswich Gymnastics Centre ● South East Area, Ipswich ● Margaret Catchpole Public House ● Holywells Park ● Gainsborough, Ipswich ● Landseer Park ● Greenwich, Ipswich ● Alnesbourne Priory ● Alexandra Park, Ipswich ● Cliff Brewery ● Achilles F.C. ● Goldrood House ● Gippeswyk Park ● Maidenhall Estate ● Sir Bobby Robson Bridge ● 10 Reavell Place ● River Gipping ● Grafton House ● Ipswich Crown Court ● Stoke Tunnel Cutting, Ipswich ● Endeavour House ● Suffolk Record Office ● Alderman Canal West ● Ipswich Buses ● Ipswich Village Development ● St Mark, Ipswich ● Ipswich Corporation Tramways
● Chantry, Suffolk ● Ipswich engine shed ● Stoke Hall, Ipswich ● St Mary at Stoke ● Alderman Canal East ● Stoke, Suffolk ● Stoke Mill, Ipswich ● Stoke Bridge ● St Francis Court ● Hanford Mill, Ipswich ● Willis Building (Ipswich) ● St Peter’s Church, Ipswich ● Stoke Park, Suffolk ● Cranfield Mill ● Unitarian Meeting House, Ipswich ● Curson Lodge ● South West Area, Ipswich ● St Mary at the Elms ● St Mary at the Quay Church, Ipswich ● Stoke Park Wood ● Chantry Park ● Buttermarket Centre, Ipswich ● Ipswich Town Hall ● Belstead Brook Hotel ● The Cornhill, Ipswich ● Tooley’s and Smart’s Almshouses ● Ancient House, Ipswich ● Ipswich Waterfront ● St Lawrence Church, Ipswich ● Bourne Park Reed Beds ● Ipswich Blackfriars ● Central Area, Ipswich ● Martin & Newby ● St Pancras Church, Ipswich ● Neptune Inn, Ipswich ● St Clement’s Church, Ipswich ● Cliff Quay Power Station ● University of Suffolk ● Bobbits Lane ● Bobbitshole, Belstead ● Pinewood, Suffolk ● Spring Wood, Belstead ● Millennium Wood, Ipswich ● Belstead House ● Wherstead ● Wherstead Park ● Orwell Bridge ● Blackbourn Hundred ● Samford Hundred ● Shotley Peninsula ● Freston and Cutler’s Woods with Holbrook Park ● Washbrook ● Freston, Suffolk ● Freston Tower ● Woolverstone ● Bridge Wood ● Jimmy’s Farm ● Pipers Vale ● Ipswich Hoard ● Belstead ● Ipswich Built-up area
Getting to / around Wherstead – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Wherstead using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Wherstead places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Wherstead Public Transport Stations
Wherstead Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Ipswich railway station
Ipswich Stoke Hill railway station
Bentley Church railway station
Leighton Road Evangelical Church, Ipswich
Portman Road
Fore Street, Ipswich
Old London Road
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Local Wherstead historians & Wherstead tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Wherstead? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Wherstead’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 Wherstead 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 Wherstead 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 Wherstead 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-Wherstead’ web pages (for example: www.visitWherstead.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