Welcome to Visit Aston-on-Trent Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Aston-on-Trent
Visit Aston-on-Trent places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Aston-on-Trent places to visit. A unique way to experience Aston-on-Trent’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Aston-on-Trent as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Aston-on-Trent Walkfo Preview Aston-on-Trent is a village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district. The parish had a population of 1,682 at the 2011 Census. The Trent and Mersey Canal runs between the village and the river. When you visit Aston-on-Trent, Walkfo brings Aston-on-Trent places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Aston-on-Trent Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Aston-on-Trent
Visit Aston-on-Trent – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 32 audio plaques & Aston-on-Trent places for you to explore in the Aston-on-Trent area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Aston-on-Trent places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Aston-on-Trent history
Aston is in the Domesday book where it is mentioned as an outlying farm of Weston-on-Trent. The name is of Anglo-Saxon descent (‘ton’ an Old English suffix meaning farm) Being in the east, the name literally means ‘East Farm’
Why visit Aston-on-Trent with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Aston-on-Trent places with Walkfo Aston-on-Trent to hear history at Aston-on-Trent’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Aston-on-Trent has 32 places to visit in our interactive Aston-on-Trent 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 Aston-on-Trent, 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 Aston-on-Trent places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Aston-on-Trent & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo Aston-on-Trent tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Aston-on-Trent
Best Aston-on-Trent places to visit
Aston-on-Trent has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Aston-on-Trent’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Aston-on-Trent’s information audio spots:
Elvaston Castle Gothic Revival castle and surrounding parkland is run and owned by Derbyshire County Council. Country park has 200 acres (0.81 km) of woodlands, parkland and formal gardens. Grade II* Listed Elvaston Castle has been neglected and is in need of restoration.
St Bartholomew’s Church, Elvaston St Bartholomew’s Church, Elvaston is a Grade I listed parish church in Derbyshire. It was built in the 1930s and is now a Grade II listed parish.
Great Wilne Great Wilne is a small village in Derbyshire, England on the border with Leicestershire. It is 7 miles (11 km) south east of Derby. The population at the 2011 Census is included in the civil parish of Shardlow and Great.
Castle Donington Power Station Castle Donington Power Station was a coal-fired power station situated on the River Trent, Leicestershire. Construction began in 1951, and the station opened in 1958.
Castle Donington Methodist Church Castle Donington Methodist Church is a Grade II listed Methodist Church in Leicestershire. It was built in the 1930s and is located in the centre of the town. The church was built at the same time as the Church of Christchurch in the 1920s.
Donington Park Donington Park is a motorsport circuit located near Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England. It was created as a racing circuit during the period between the First and Second World Wars when the German Silver Arrows were battling for the European Championship. The circuit business is now owned by Jonathan Palmer’s MotorSport Vision organisation, and the estate is still owned by the Wheatcroft family.
Melbourne line The Melbourne Line was a railway line which ran from Derby to Ashby de la Zouch. It was used by the British Army and Allied engineers during the Second World War. Engineers practised the demolition and rebuilding of railways.
St James’ Church, Shardlow St James’ Church, Shardlow is a Grade II listed parish church in Derbyshire. It was built in the 1930s and is located in Shardlow.
Monsters of Rock Monsters of Rock was an annual hard rock and heavy metal music festival held in Castle Donington, England, from 1980 to 1996. It later branched into other locations such as the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Sweden, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and the United States.
Visit Aston-on-Trent plaques
1 plaques hereAston-on-Trent has 1 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Aston-on-Trent 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 Aston-on-Trent using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Aston-on-Trent plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Aston-on-Trent audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Aston-on-Trent allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Aston-on-Trent’s 32 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Aston-on-Trent freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Aston-on-Trent Map App
Our visit Aston-on-Trent map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Aston-on-Trent & 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 Aston-on-Trent tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Aston-on-Trent centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Aston-on-Trent area at LONG:-1.385, LAT:52.86.
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.
Things to do & visit in Aston-on-Trent / surrounding areas
● Chellaston ● St Mary the Virgin’s Church, Weston-on-Trent ● Elvaston Castle ● St Bartholomew’s Church, Elvaston ● South East Derbyshire Rural District ● Great Wilne ● Castle Donington Power Station ● Castle Donington Methodist Church ● Donington Hall ● Donington Castle ● King’s Mill, Castle Donington ● Donington Park ● Donington Park SSSI ● Hanson Log Boat ● Aston Hall, Aston-on-Trent ● Aston-on-Trent ● All Saints’ Church, Aston-upon-Trent ● Melbourne line ● Weston-on-Trent ● Cavendish Bridge ● St James’ Church, Shardlow ● Shardlow and Great Wilne ● Shardlow Hall, Derbyshire ● Shardlow ● Derby South services ● Elvaston, Derbyshire ● Monsters of Rock ● Castle Donington ● Donington Grand Prix Collection ● Download Festival
Getting to / around Aston-on-Trent – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Aston-on-Trent using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Aston-on-Trent places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Aston-on-Trent historians & Aston-on-Trent tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Aston-on-Trent? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Aston-on-Trent’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 Aston-on-Trent 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 Aston-on-Trent 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 Aston-on-Trent 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-Aston-on-Trent’ web pages (for example: www.visitAston-on-Trent.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 Aston-on-Trent places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Aston-on-Trent places to visit. A unique way to experience Aston-on-Trent’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Aston-on-Trent as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Aston-on-Trent places with Walkfo Aston-on-Trent to hear history at Aston-on-Trent’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Aston-on-Trent has 32 places to visit in our interactive Aston-on-Trent 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 Aston-on-Trent, 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 Aston-on-Trent places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Aston-on-Trent & the surrounding areas.
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Trying to encourage visitors to Aston-on-Trent?