Visit Blean Places

Welcome to Visit Blean Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Blean

  

Blean Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Blean

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Blean history

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The name Blean is the dative form of the Old English word ‘blea’ which means rough ground. In 1835, the Blean Union Workhouse, designed by William Edmunds, was built on four acres south of Herne Common. Discipline was severe. A nine-year-old girl was once punished for a small offense by being forced to remain overnight in the mortuary with a corpse.

You can visit Blean places with Walkfo Blean to hear history at Blean’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Blean has 46 places to visit in our interactive Blean 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 Blean, 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 Blean places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Blean & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 46 audio facts unique to Blean places in an interactive Blean map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Blean Places Map
46 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Blean historic spots	Blean tourist destinations	Blean plaques	Blean geographic features
Walkfo Blean tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Blean

  

Best Blean places to visit

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Blean has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Blean’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Blean’s information audio spots:

Marlowe Memorial The Marlowe Memorial is a statue and four statuettes erected in 1891 in Canterbury, England. The memorial comprises a bronze statue, The Muse of Poetry sculpted by Edward Onslow Ford. The statue is now situated outside the city’s Marlowe Theatre.

Canterbury power station Canterbury power station supplied electricity to the City of Canterbury, Kent, England from 1900 to 1960. The small generating station was owned and operated by Canterbury Corporation until the nationalisation of the British electricity supply industry in 1948.

St Michael and All Angels Church, Harbledown The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Norman stone church in Harbledown, near Canterbury, England. It follows the Anglo-Catholic tradition, is a parish of the Society of Saint Wilfrid and Saint Hilda. It has been listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England since January 1967.

Bigbury Camp Bigbury Camp is the only confirmed Iron Age hill fort in east Kent. It was occupied from about 350 BC and may have been stormed by Roman soldiers of the Legio VII Claudia under the command of Julius Caesar.

Blean and Tyler Hill Halt railway station Blean and Tyler Hill Halt was a minor station on the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway at Tyler Hill, Kent. It opened in 1908 and closed in 1931.

Battle of Bossenden Wood The Battle of Bossenden Wood took place on 31 May 1838 near Hernhill in Kent. The battle was fought between a group of labourers and a detachment of soldiers sent from Canterbury to arrest the marchers’ leader. Eleven men died in the brief confrontation: Courtenay, eight of his followers and two of those sent to apprehend them.

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