Welcome to Visit Brackla Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Brackla
Visit Brackla places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Brackla places to visit. A unique way to experience Brackla’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Brackla as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Brackla Walkfo Preview Brackla (Welsh: Bracla) is a large housing estate, community and electoral ward in Bridgend County Borough, Wales. At the 2001 census it had a population of 10,113, increasing to 11,749 at the 2011 Census. When you visit Brackla, Walkfo brings Brackla places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Brackla Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Brackla
Visit Brackla – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 44 audio plaques & Brackla places for you to explore in the Brackla area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Brackla places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Brackla history
Until 1936, the 900 acres (3.6 km) of land between Bridgend and Brackla was farmland. ROF 53 was the biggest single factory in Western Europe at its peak, and employed some 40,000 people. After World War II, the factory was closed completely by 1946.
Nuclear Bunker
In the late 1960s, two of the former munitions tunnels were redeveloped as a nuclear command bunker for South Wales. Brackla became the regional control centre for all of Wales, redesignated RGHQ 8.2.2. Sold in 1996, it has been derelict ever since.
Why visit Brackla with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Brackla places with Walkfo Brackla to hear history at Brackla’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Brackla has 44 places to visit in our interactive Brackla 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 Brackla, 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 Brackla places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Brackla & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 44 audio facts unique to Brackla places in an interactive Brackla map you can explore.”
Walkfo Brackla tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Brackla
Best Brackla places to visit
Brackla has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Brackla’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Brackla’s information audio spots:
Brackla Brackla (Welsh: Bracla) is a large housing estate, community and electoral ward in Bridgend County Borough, Wales. At the 2001 census it had a population of 10,113, increasing to 11,749 at the 2011 Census.
Ogwr The Borough of Ogwr was one of six districts of Mid Glamorgan in Wales, which existed from 1974 to 1996. It was the first district to be named after Ogwr.
Princess of Wales Hospital Princess of Wales Hospital (Welsh: Ysbyty Tywysoges Cymru) is a district general hospital in Bridgend, Wales. It is managed by Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.
Newcastle, Bridgend Newcastle is an area and electoral ward of Bridgend, Wales. The area includes the medieval Newcastle Castle. The ward elects councillors to the Town Council and County Borough Council.
Coity Coity is a village (and electoral ward) in Bridgend County Borough, south Wales. It is part of the community of Coity Higher and is notable for being home to Coity Castle, one of the best preserved castles in Glamorgan.
Coity Castle Norman castle was built by Sir Payn “the Demon” de Turberville, one of the legendary Twelve Knights of Glamorgan. Now in ruins, it stands in the community of Coity Higher near the town of Bridgend.
Ewenny Priory House Ewenny Priory House is a privately owned Georgian mansion. Originally built in 1545 it was rebuilt in the early 1800s. The house is Grade II* listed.
St Crallo’s Church St Crallo’s Church is a Grade I listed church in Coychurch Lower, Bridgend County Borough, southern Wales. It is often referred to historically as The Cathedral of the Vale of Glamorgan.
HM Prison Parc HM Prison Parc is a Category B men’s private prison and Young Offenders Institution in Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales. Parc Prison is operated by G4S and is the only privately operated prison in Wales.
Parc Hospital Parc Hospital (Welsh: Ysbyty Parc) was a mental health facility at Bridgend in Wales. It was located at the centre of a mental hospital in Wales.
Visit Brackla plaques
0 plaques hereBrackla has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Brackla 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 Brackla using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Brackla plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Brackla audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Brackla allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Brackla’s 44 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Brackla freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Brackla Map App
Our visit Brackla map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Brackla & 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 Brackla tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Brackla centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Brackla area at LONG:-3.551, LAT:51.513.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Brackla, 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 Brackla / surrounding areas
● Bridge FM (Wales) ● Bridgend (community) ● Oldcastle, Bridgend ● Bridgend Industrial Estate ● Brackla ● Bridgend ● Bridgend County Borough ● Old Bridge, Bridgend ● Morfa, Bridgend ● Princess of Wales Hospital ● Brewery Field ● Newcastle Castle, Bridgend ● Newcastle, Bridgend ● Island Farm ● Waterton, Bridgend ● Coity Higher ● Coity Castle ● St Mary’s Church, Coity Higher ● Wildmill ● Schwyll Aquifer ● Ewenny Priory House ● Ewenny Priory ● St Crallo’s Church ● Ford Bridgend Engine Plant ● Corntown ● Cefn Glas ● Coychurch Lower ● Coychurch ● Glanrhyd Hospital ● HM Prison Parc
● Parc Hospital ● Ewenny ● Coedymwstwr Woodlands ● St Mary Hill ● Bridgend Designer Outlet ● Sarn Park services ● St Bride’s Minor ● Pen-y-fai, Bridgend ● Sarn, Bridgend ● Cefn Hirgoed ● Pencoed ● ROF Bridgend
Getting to / around Brackla – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Brackla using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Brackla places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Brackla Public Transport Stations
Brackla Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Bridgend railway station
Wildmill railway station
Sarn railway station
Pencoed railway station
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Local Brackla historians & Brackla tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Brackla? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Brackla’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 Brackla 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 Brackla 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 Brackla 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-Brackla’ web pages (for example: www.visitBrackla.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
Visit Brackla places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Brackla places to visit. A unique way to experience Brackla’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Brackla as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
With 44 audio plaques & Brackla places for you to explore in the Brackla area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Brackla places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
You can visit Brackla places with Walkfo Brackla to hear history at Brackla’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Brackla has 44 places to visit in our interactive Brackla 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 Brackla, 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 Brackla places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Brackla & the surrounding areas.
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