Welcome to Visit Barkby Thorpe Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Barkby Thorpe
Visit Barkby Thorpe places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Barkby Thorpe places to visit. A unique way to experience Barkby Thorpe’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Barkby Thorpe as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Barkby Thorpe Walkfo Preview Barkby Thorpe is a hamlet and civil parish in the Charnwood district of Leicestershire. The name Barkby has an Old Norse origin meaning “Barki’s farm/settlement” When you visit Barkby Thorpe, Walkfo brings Barkby Thorpe places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Visit Barkby Thorpe – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 27 audio plaques & Barkby Thorpe places for you to explore in the Barkby Thorpe area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Barkby Thorpe places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Barkby Thorpe with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Barkby Thorpe places with Walkfo Barkby Thorpe to hear history at Barkby Thorpe’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Barkby Thorpe has 27 places to visit in our interactive Barkby Thorpe 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 Barkby Thorpe, 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 Barkby Thorpe places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Barkby Thorpe & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Barkby Thorpe tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Barkby Thorpe
Best Barkby Thorpe places to visit
Barkby Thorpe has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Barkby Thorpe’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Barkby Thorpe’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’s Church, Queniborough St Mary’s Church is the Church of England parish church of Queniborough, Leicestershire. The church mostly dates from the late 13th and early 14th centuries. It was grade I listed in 1966.
Scraptoft Scraptoft is a village in Leicestershire, England. It has a population of about 1,500, measured at the 2011 census as 1,804. It lies north of the A47 road east of Leicester, and runs directly into the built up area of Thurnby and Bushby.
Humberstone & Hamilton Humberstone and Hamilton is an electoral ward and administrative division of the City of Leicester. It comprises the north-eastern Leicester suburbs of Humberstones, Garden City, Hamilton and Netherhall.
Towers Hospital The Towers Hospital was a mental health facility in Humberstone, Leicestershire. The administration building, which became known as George Hine House, is a Grade II listed building.
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 Barkby Thorpe plaques
0 plaques hereBarkby Thorpe has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Barkby Thorpe 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 Barkby Thorpe using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Barkby Thorpe plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Barkby Thorpe audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Barkby Thorpe allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Barkby Thorpe’s 27 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Barkby Thorpe freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Barkby Thorpe Map App
Our visit Barkby Thorpe map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Barkby Thorpe & 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 Barkby Thorpe tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Barkby Thorpe centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Barkby Thorpe area at LONG:-1.062, LAT:52.676.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Barkby Thorpe, 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 Barkby Thorpe / surrounding areas
● 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 ● Queniborough ● St Mary’s Church, Queniborough ● Wanlip ● Scraptoft ● Scraptoft Hall ● Humberstone & Hamilton ● Scraptoft Nature Reserve ● Towers Hospital ● Arnold Lodge ● Charnwood (ward) ● Gipsy Lane Pit ● Birstall, Leicestershire ● Highfield Rangers F.C. ● Rushey Mead ● Birstall United F.C. ● All Saints Church, Beeby ● Church of St James the Great, Birstall
Getting to / around Barkby Thorpe – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Barkby Thorpe using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Barkby Thorpe places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Barkby Thorpe Public Transport Stations
Barkby Thorpe Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Syston railway station
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Local Barkby Thorpe historians & Barkby Thorpe tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Barkby Thorpe? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Barkby Thorpe’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 Barkby Thorpe 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 Barkby Thorpe 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 Barkby Thorpe 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-Barkby Thorpe’ web pages (for example: www.visitBarkby Thorpe.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