Welcome to Visit Bowes Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Bowes
Visit Bowes places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Bowes places to visit. A unique way to experience Bowes’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Bowes as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Bowes is a village in County Durham, England. Located in the Pennine hills, it is situated close to Barnard Castle. It is built around the medieval Bowes Castle. When you visit Bowes, Walkfo brings Bowes places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Bowes Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Bowes
Visit Bowes – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 7 audio plaques & Bowes places for you to explore in the Bowes area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Bowes places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Bowes history
The place-name ‘Bowes’ is first attested in a charter of 1148, where it appears as Bogas. This is the plural of the Old English boga meaning ‘bow’, probably signifying an arched bridge. A Roman fort was located there, which was re-used as the site for Bowes Castle. The only pub in the village, The Ancient Unicorn, is reputed to be haunted by several ghosts.
Why visit Bowes with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Bowes places with Walkfo Bowes to hear history at Bowes’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Bowes has 7 places to visit in our interactive Bowes 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 Bowes, 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 Bowes places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Bowes & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 7 audio facts unique to Bowes places in an interactive Bowes map you can explore.”
Walkfo: Visit Bowes Places Map
7 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
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Best Bowes places to visit
Bowes has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Bowes’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Bowes’s information audio spots:
God’s Bridge
God’s Bridge is a natural limestone bridge over the River Greta, just over 3 km upstream from Bowes, County Durham. It was formed by a process of cave development in the limestone beneath the river bed. It is the best example in Britain of a natural bridge formed in this way.
Visit Bowes plaques
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here Bowes has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Bowes 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 Bowes using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Bowes plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
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