Welcome to Visit Benham Hill Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Benham Hill
Visit Benham Hill places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Benham Hill places to visit. A unique way to experience Benham Hill’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Benham Hill as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Benham Hill Walkfo Preview Benham Hill is a hill and small settlement in the Shaw portion of the civil parish of Shaw-cum-Donnington in the English county of Berkshire. The settlement lies on the A4 road, and is previously the site of the Turnpike School, now West Berkshire Community Hospital. When you visit Benham Hill, Walkfo brings Benham Hill places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Benham Hill Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Benham Hill
Visit Benham Hill – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 56 audio plaques & Benham Hill places for you to explore in the Benham Hill area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Benham Hill places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Benham Hill with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Benham Hill places with Walkfo Benham Hill to hear history at Benham Hill’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Benham Hill has 56 places to visit in our interactive Benham Hill 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 Benham Hill, 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 Benham Hill places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Benham Hill & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Benham Hill tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Benham Hill
Best Benham Hill places to visit
Benham Hill has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Benham Hill’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Benham Hill’s information audio spots:
Greenham and Crookham Commons Greenham and Crookham Commons are two adjoining public park areas of 280.5-hectare (693-acre) common land designated as a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) on the southern outskirts of Newbury in the English county of Berkshire.
Newbury power station Newbury power station supplied electricity to the town of Newbury, Berkshire, from 1905 to 1970. It comprised, at various times, hydro-electric, gas engine and diesel engine powered plant with a maximum output capacity of 2.57 MW.
Phoenix Brewery The Phoenix Brewery (also known as Finns Brewery) was a brewery run by the Finns family in Newbury, Berkshire, UK.
Newbury Town Hall Newbury Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place in Newbury, Berkshire, England. The building is a Grade II listed building.
Parkway Newbury Parkway Newbury is a retail and residential development in Newbury, Berkshire. Includes 475,000 sq ft (44,000 m) of retail and restaurant accommodation and Marks & Spencer.
Shaw, Berkshire Shaw is located to the north of Newbury, near the village of Donnington. It is in the parish of Shaw-cum-Donnington.
Shaw House, Berkshire Shaw House is an important example of an early symmetrical H-plan Elizabethan mansion, located at Shaw, on the north-eastern outskirts of Newbury in Berkshire.
Sandleford Priory (country house) Sandleford Priory is a largely 18th century country house in Greenham, Berkshire. It incorporates the chapel of a former monastery and is currently the home of St Gabriel’s School.
Donnington Friary Donnington Friary was a friary of crouched friars at Donnington in Berkshire. At the time of suppression the establishment was recorded as Trinitarian, but this was later corrected to Crossed Friars.
Donnington Castle Donnington Castle was founded by Sir Richard Abberbury the Elder in 1386. During the First English Civil War the castle was held by the royalist Sir John Boys and withstood an 18-month siege. Parliament voted to demolish the castle in 1646 and only the gatehouse survives.
Visit Benham Hill plaques
4 plaques hereBenham Hill has 4 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Benham Hill 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 Benham Hill using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Benham Hill plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Benham Hill audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Benham Hill allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Benham Hill’s 56 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Benham Hill freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Benham Hill Map App
Our visit Benham Hill map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Benham Hill & 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 Benham Hill tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Benham Hill centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Benham Hill area at LONG:-1.291928, LAT:51.404997.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Benham Hill, 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 Benham Hill / surrounding areas
● Monkey Marsh Lock ● Bowdown and Chamberhouse Woods ● Heads Hill ● Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp ● Greenham and Crookham Commons ● St John the Evangelist Church, Newbury ● Corn Exchange, Newbury ● Newbury F.C. ● West Berkshire Museum ● Black Boys Bridge ● Newbury, Berkshire ● West Berkshire ● Phoenix Brewery ● Newbury Town Hall ● Greenham Lock ● St Nicolas Church, Newbury ● Newbury Bridge ● Victoria Park, Newbury ● Newbury Lock ● Newbury Racecourse ● Parkway Newbury ● Audrey’s Meadow ● Ham Lock ● Speenhamland, Berkshire ● Shaw, Berkshire ● River Lambourn ● Greenham ● Shaw House, Berkshire ● Sandleford ● Benham Hill
● West Berkshire Community Hospital ● Sandleford Priory (country house) ● Newbury & Crookham Golf Club ● Shaw-cum-Donnington ● Bull’s Lock ● Donnington Friary ● Speen, Berkshire ● Second Battle of Newbury ● Donnington, Berkshire ● The Nature Discovery Centre ● Nature Discovery Centre ● Thatcham Reed Beds ● RAF Greenham Common ● Greenham Preceptory ● Thatcham ● St Mary’s Church, Thatcham ● Widmead Lock ● Ashmore Green ● Cold Ash ● Donnington Grove ● Donnington Castle ● Cold Ash Quarry ● Order of Silence ● Aldern Bridge
Getting to / around Benham Hill – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Benham Hill using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Benham Hill places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Benham Hill Public Transport Stations
Benham Hill Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Thatcham railway station
Newbury Racecourse railway station
Newbury power station
Newbury West Fields Halt railway station
Speen railway station
Newbury railway station
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Local Benham Hill historians & Benham Hill tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Benham Hill? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Benham Hill’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 Benham Hill 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 Benham Hill 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 Benham Hill 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-Benham Hill’ web pages (for example: www.visitBenham Hill.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