Visit Bidford-on-Avon – things to do & explore
When you visit Bidford-on-Avon 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 Bidford-on-Avon. Millions of audio content spots are available when you travel by foot, bike, bus or car around Bidford-on-Avon through your mobile phone connected to headphones.
Overview of Bidford-on-Avon history & facts by Walkfo
Planning a visit to Bidford-on-Avon?
Bidford-on-Avon is a large village and civil parish in the English county of Warwickshire, very close to the border with Worcestershire. In the 2001 census it had a population of 4,830, increasing to 5,350 at the 2011 census.
Bidford-on-Avon history
Ryknield Street, the Roman road, passes through the village, going north towards Alcester. There is also an ancient Anglo-Saxon burial site under the free car park located just behind the Indian restaurant “No 72”. First discovered in the 1920s, artefacts from more recent excavations are located at Warwick Museum, while material from the first excavations on the site currently resides in the hands of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. A Bronze Agebronze razor was found in excavations at Bidford-on-Avon. William Shakespeare is said to have joined a party of Stratford folk which set itself to outdrink a drinking club at Bidford-on-Avon, and as a result of his labours in that regard to have fallen asleep under the crab tree of which a descendant is still called Shakespeares tree. When morning dawned his friends wished to renew the encounter but he wisely said “No I have drunk with “Piping Pebworth, Dancing Marston, Haunted Hillboro’, Hungry Grafton, Dodging Exhall, Papist Wixford, Beggarly Broom and Drunken Bidford” and so, presumably, I will drink no more.” The story is said to date from the 17th century but of its truth or of any connection of the story or the verse to Shakespeare there is no evidence. The Falcon Inn was a favourite tavern in his day. Bidford was the birthplace and childhood home of the 20th-century author Barbara Comyns.
You can visit Bidford-on-Avon, COUNTY/BOROUGH & use Walkfo to discover the best walking places with our free digital tour guide app created especially for Bidford-on-Avon. Walkfo Bidford-on-Avon 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 Bidford-on-Avon, 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 Bidford-on-Avon will keep up.
When you visit Bidford-on-Avon
When you visit Bidford-on-Avon, Walkfo is your digital tour guide while exploring by foot, bike or bus. With numerous walks, hikes, tourist locations & travel destinations available in Bidford-on-Avon, our travel AI guide helps you get the best from your visit to Bidford-on-Avon & the surrounding areas. Our explore Bidford-on-Avon app for iPhone & Android, allows you to experience the hidden history, culture and amazing facts throughout Bidford-on-Avon whilst out walking. The digital tour guide creates interactive audio stories driven by where you walk, so you can exploration Bidford-on-Avon’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 Bidford-on-Avon alone that form an interactive Bidford-on-Avon walking map for you to explore.”
Best Bidford-on-Avon places to visit
Bidford-on-Avon has hundreds of places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are five of Bidford-on-Avon’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 Bidford-on-Avon plaques
Bidford-on-Avon 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 Bidford-on-Avon 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 Bidford-on-Avon 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 Bidford-on-Avon, you will hear the full story of each of these plaques.
Experience Bidford-on-Avon audio walks & tours
Walkfo is a free app that shows you things to do / visit in Bidford-on-Avon 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 Bidford-on-Avon freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Visiting Bidford-on-Avon with Walkfo’s things to do interactive map
The “Bidford-on-Avon things to do map” below is a preview of the places you can visit in Bidford-on-Avon 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 Bidford-on-Avon Map’
This Bidford-on-Avon tourism map shows points of interest within a 4km radius of Bidford-on-Avon 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 Bidford-on-Avon, 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 Bidford-on-Avon and surrounding areas
Getting to / around Bidford-on-Avon – transport links, stations, streets & traffic map
Getting around in Bidford-on-Avon using public transportation may include roads, streets, trains, undergrounds, buses or trams. Walkfo has the following important Bidford-on-Avon public transport locations with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
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Bridge
The river is crossed by Bidford Bridge, which is a scheduled monument. During the week beginning Monday 26 November 2012, the Bridge had to be closed due to flooding, when the River Avon burst its banks, in various places. On 9 June 2015, the bridge was closed to traffic after a heavy duty farm vehicle crashed into it, causing serious damage to the historic structure. Police cars were positioned either side of the bridge to alert drivers to the fact that the bridge was inaccessible to traffic. After repairs, the bridge has now re-opened.
Railway
Bidford no longer has an active railway line, but it once had a station on the Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway, which ran east–west across the county from Broom Junction on the Midland Railway’s Barnt Green-Redditch-Alcester-Evesham-Ashchurch line, through Stratford-upon-Avon to Towcester and beyond. The Broom to Stratford section (including Bidford and also Binton), was an early casualty, with passenger services suspended in June 1947 and closure rubber-stamped as permanent in May 1949. The line itself remained open with the south curve of Broom Junction until at least 1952. Today the closest station to Bidford, is Honeybourne railway station, which is located 5 miles south of the village. Honeybourne station provides regular rail services to London Paddington, Oxford, Evesham, Worcester and Hereford along the Cotswold Line.
Attention local Bidford-on-Avon historians, tour guides & Bidford-on-Avon tourism agents
Looking for a way to get more visitors to Bidford-on-Avon?
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 Bidford-on-Avon 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.visitBidford-on-Avon.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.