Visit Aston-on-Trent – things to do & explore
When you visit Aston-on-Trent on a day-trip, weekend away or holiday, Walkfo is the digital tour guide to the hidden history & cultural facts that you can explore in Aston-on-Trent. Millions of audio content spots are available when you travel by foot, bike, bus or car around Aston-on-Trent through your mobile phone connected to headphones.
Overview of Aston-on-Trent history & facts by Walkfo
Planning a visit to Aston-on-Trent?
Aston-on-Trent is a village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district, in the county of Derbyshire, England. The parish had a population of 1,682 at the 2011 Census. It is adjacent to Weston-on-Trent and near Chellaston, very close to the border with Leicestershire. On the north bank of the River Trent, about a mile from the river on rising ground, it is out of its flood plain. The Trent and Mersey Canal runs between the village and the river. All Saints’ Church is Celtic. There are two public houses, the White Hart and The Malt.
Aston-on-Trent history
In 1009 Æþelræd Unræd (King Ethelred the Unready) signed a charter at the Great Council which recognised the position and boundaries of Westune. The land described in that charter included the lands now known as Shardlow, Great Wilne, Church Wilne, Crich, Smalley, Morley, Weston and Aston on Trent. Under this charter Æþelræd gave his minister, Morcar, a number of rights that made him free from tax and enabled his own rule within the manor. This manor came under the control of the King again following Morcar being murdered in 1015 and the lands were later given to Ælfgar, the Earl of Mercia, but he lost this at the Norman Conquest. Aston is in the Domesday book where it is mentioned as an outlying farm of Weston-on-Trent and listed amongst the lands given to Henry de Ferrers by the King. The land given to Henry included 5 acres (20,000 m) of land that was valued at eight shillings. The name is of Anglo-Saxon descent (‘ton’ an Old English suffix meaning farm). Being in the east, the name literally means ‘East Farm’. The ‘On-Trent’ suffix of both Aston and nearby villages simply means they are near the river Trent. Shardlow and Great Wilne were included in the parish of Aston-on-Trent until 1838, when Shardlow constructed its own church.
You can visit Aston-on-Trent, COUNTY/BOROUGH & use Walkfo to discover the best walking places with our free digital tour guide app created especially for Aston-on-Trent. Walkfo Aston-on-Trent has 300 locations with history, culture & travel facts, that you can explore the same way you can a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Aston-on-Trent, being in the moment, without digital distraction and no limitations to a specific walking route – you choose where you want to go, when you want to go and Walkfo Aston-on-Trent will keep up.
When you visit Aston-on-Trent
When you visit Aston-on-Trent, Walkfo is your digital tour guide while exploring by foot, bike or bus. With numerous walks, hikes, tourist locations & travel destinations available in Aston-on-Trent, our travel AI guide helps you get the best from your visit to Aston-on-Trent & the surrounding areas. Our explore Aston-on-Trent app for iPhone & Android, allows you to experience the hidden history, culture and amazing facts throughout Aston-on-Trent whilst out walking. The digital tour guide creates interactive audio stories driven by where you walk, so you can exploration Aston-on-Trent’s National Heritage sites, tourist attractions, historic locations or city streets freely, without the restrictions of a predefined walk & walk map.
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 0 audio facts in Aston-on-Trent alone that form an interactive Aston-on-Trent walking map for you to explore.”
Best Aston-on-Trent places to visit
Aston-on-Trent has hundreds of places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are five of Aston-on-Trent’s best destinations to visit when exploring the area. We have condensed the information with much more detail available within Walkfo when you visit the destinations.
bVisit Aston-on-Trent plaques
Aston-on-Trent has 0 plaques as part of nation or local tourist plaque schemes for you to explore when you visit. Plaque schemes such as National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide a visual geo marker to highlight points of interest things, at the places where they happened. Walkfo has researched each plaque to provide additional content when you visit the Aston-on-Trent plaques whilst using the app. Experience the hidden history & stories behind each location as the Walkfo local tourist guide app uses GPS to trigger audio close to each Aston-on-Trent plaque. Walkfo also offers millions of additional ‘virtual geo plaques’ that are unique to Walkfo, created across the UK (and the world).
When using Walkfo to explore Aston-on-Trent, you will hear the full story of each of these plaques.
Experience Aston-on-Trent audio walks & tours
Walkfo is a free app that shows you things to do / visit in Aston-on-Trent on a map. You can explore the area as you wish, as you would do an art gallery or museum, and when you walk close to those locations, our digital tour guide will tell you history, culture & travel facts about the location in audio form. With headphone connected, you can explore Aston-on-Trent freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Visiting Aston-on-Trent with Walkfo’s things to do interactive map
The “Aston-on-Trent things to do map” below is a preview of the places you can visit in Aston-on-Trent and surrounding areas with our digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has content for a plaque, a building, a street or general area, providing history, culture or tourism information the you can explore.
| Interactive ‘Explore Aston-on-Trent Map’
This Aston-on-Trent tourism map shows points of interest within a 4km radius of Aston-on-Trent centre | Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Aston-on-Trent, 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.
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Things to do & visit in Aston-on-Trent and surrounding areas
Getting to / around Aston-on-Trent – transport links, stations, streets & traffic map
Getting around in Aston-on-Trent using public transportation may include roads, streets, trains, undergrounds, buses or trams. Walkfo has the following important Aston-on-Trent public transport locations with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
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Attention local Aston-on-Trent historians, tour guides & Aston-on-Trent tourism agents
Looking for a way to get more visitors to Aston-on-Trent?
Whilst Walkfo has millions audio spots already available, Walkfo Creator allows tourist destinations, attractions & landmarks to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & walks using the simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. Creating an audio walk for you destination is free* and can be created in under 15 minutes if you have content ready, with Walkfo Creator doing all the hard work generating audio files for geo spot you simply click on a map.
The 100 Amazing Aston-on-Trent Places outdoor museum was created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) as a way for people to safely explore the area during Covid-19 times whilst improving the experience of visiting a city when tourism boards use Walkfo to market their destination.
Walkfo is currently looking to partner with websites who offer things-to-do / what’s on events listings to add to our content on our webpages (for example: www.visitAston-on-Trent.com). If you are interested in being a content provider, 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.