Visit Bracknell Forest Place – things to do & explore
Visit Bracknell Forest places on a day-trip, weekend away or holiday – and Walkfo becomes your personal digital tour guide to Bracknell Forest things to do.
Visiting Bracknell Forest Overview
Bracknell Forest is a unitary authority area in Berkshire, southern England . It covers the two towns of Bracknell and Sandhurst and the village of Crowthorne . The south of the borough also borders parts of Surrey and Hampshire . When you visit Bracknell Forest, Bracknell Forest history becomes available at the places you travel to by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Bracknell Forest places overview by Walkfo
Visit to Bracknell Forest stats
With 82 tourism audio plaques & places for you to explore in Bracknell Forest, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider in the world. Our AI continually learns & refines content about the best Bracknell Forest places to visit from online information authorities like Wikipedia for current & history, and converts it into an audio experience.
Bracknell Forest history
Bracknell Forest was formed on 1 April 1974, as the non-metropolitan district of Bracknell. The district took on the territory of the former Easthampstead Rural District. It changed its name in May 1988, at the same time as it was granted borough status. On 1 April 1998, Berkshire County Council was abolished, and the borough became a unitary authority.
Bracknell Forest geography / climate
More than 20% of the borough is recognised as being of a high wildlife value and protected by some form of designation. Nine sites in Bracknell Forest are designated as Site of Special Scientific Interest. The Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area supports nationally important populations of Dartford warblers, nightjars and woodlarks, all of which are Annex I species of the Birds Directive.
When you visit Bracknell Forest
You can visit Bracknell Forest places and use Walkfo Bracknell Forest to discover the history & things to do in Bracknell Forest whilst walking with our free digital tour app. Walkfo Bracknell Forest has 82 places on our Bracknell Forest map with history, culture & travel facts that you 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 Bracknell Forest, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route – you choose where you want to go, when you want to go and Walkfo Bracknell Forest will keep up. – With millions of places including tourist walks, Bracknell Forest travel destinations, National Trust locations converted to audio experiences, our Bracknell Forest places AI guide will help you get the best from your visit to Bracknell Forest & the surrounding areas. The Bracknell Forest places app for iPhone & Android delivers hidden history, interesting culture and amazing facts in interactive audio stories in response to where you walk at National Heritage sites, tourist attractions, historic locations or city streets, with no predefined walk map requirements.
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 82 audio facts unique to Bracknell Forest places forming an interactive Bracknell Forest map for you to explore.”
Walkfo Bracknell Forest tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Bracknell Forest
Best Bracknell Forest places to visit
Bracknell Forest has many places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Bracknell Forest’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Bracknell Forest’s information audio spots:
Caesar’s Camp, Bracknell Forest Caesar’s Camp is an Iron Age hill fort around 2400 years old . It is located just in Crowthorne civil parish to the south of Bracknell in the English county of Berkshire . The fort covers an area of about 17.2 acres (7 hectares) and is surrounded by a mile-long ditch .
Swinley Forest Swinley Forest is a large expanse of Crown Estate woodland mainly within the civil parishes of Windlesham in Surrey and Winkfield and Crowthorne in Berkshire .
Foliejon Park Foliejon Park is a manorial country house in Winkfield, Berkshire. It was the temporary residence of King Haakon VII during the Nazi occupation of Norway. The building has been listed as Grade II since December 1966.
Whitegrove Copse Whitegrove Copse is a 3.6-hectare (8.9-acre) Local Nature Reserve on the northern outskirts of Bracknell in Berkshire. This site is ancient coppiced woodland.
Farley Copse Farley Copse is a 3.3-hectare (8.2-acre) Local Nature Reserve on the western outskirts of Bracknell in Berkshire.
Temple Copse Temple Copse is a 1.9-hectare (4.7-acre) Local Nature Reserve on the northwestern outskirts of Bracknell in Berkshire. It forms part of what is known locally as The Three Copses.
Wykery Copse Wykery Copse is a 3.2-hectare (7.9-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Bracknell in Berkshire.
Jock’s Copse Jock’s Copse is a 1.5-hectare (3.7-acre) Local Nature Reserve on the northern outskirts of Bracknell in Berkshire. It is ancient coppiced woodland, mainly oak and hazel.
Tinkers Copse Tinkers Copse is a 1.9-hectare (4.7-acre) Local Nature Reserve on the northwestern outskirts of Bracknell in Berkshire. It forms part of what is known locally as The Three Copses.
Piggy Wood Piggy Wood is a 2.3-hectare (5.7-acre) Local Nature Reserve on the northern outskirts of Bracknell in Berkshire.
Visit Bracknell Forest plaques
2 plaques hereBracknell Forest has 2 physical plaques within tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Bracknell Forest plaques when visiting. Plaque schemes such as National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened. Where a plaque is available, Walkfo AI has done research to provide additional, deeper content when you visit Bracknell Forest using the app. Experience hidden history & stories at each location as the Walkfo local tourist guide app uses trigger audio close to each Bracknell Forest plaque. Explore Bracknell Forest Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Bracknell Forest audio walks & tours
Walkfo is a free app that guides you around things to do / places to visit in Bracknell Forest. Explore as you wish, as you would do an art gallery or museum, and when you walk close to any of the 82 locations, our digital tour guide will provide history, culture & travel facts in audio form. With headphone connected, you can explore Bracknell Forest freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Bracknell Forest Map App
Our visit Bracknell Forest map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Bracknell Forest & 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 Bracknell Forest tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Bracknell Forest centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Bracknell Forest area at LONG:-0.7469, LAT:51.417.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Bracknell Forest, 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 Bracknell Forest / surrounding areas
● Sunninghill Park ● Brookside, Berkshire ● Woodside, Berkshire ● Englemere Pond ● Crown Wood ● Forest Park, Bracknell Forest ● Harmans Water ● Swinley Park and Brick Pits ● The Warren, Bracknell Forest ● Birch Hill ● Jennett’s Park ● Martins Heron ● Easthampstead ● Hanworth, Bracknell ● St Michael and St Mary Magdalene’s Church, Easthampstead ● Easthampstead Rural District ● Caesar’s Camp, Bracknell Forest ● Bracknell Town F.C. ● Broadmoor to Bagshot Woods and Heaths ● Wildridings ● Bullbrook ● Columbia Centre ● Bracknell ● Great Hollands ● Bracknell Forest ● Swinley Forest ● Transport Research Laboratory ● Crowthorne ● Home Farm, Bracknell ● Broadmoor Hospital
● Wooden Hill ● Easthampstead Park ● Edgbarrow Woods ● Wildmoor Heath ● Owlsmoor ● Sandhurst to Owlsmoor Bogs and Heaths ● Foliejon Park ● Little Sandhurst ● Ambarrow Court ● Sandhurst, Berkshire ● Sandhurst Town F.C. ● Swinley Forest Golf Club ● Ascot Priory ● Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust ● Wick Hill, Bracknell ● Whitegrove Copse ● Chavey Down ● Andrews & Arnold ● Whitegrove ● Popeswood ● Farley Copse ● Farley Wood ● Amen Corner, Berkshire ● Temple Copse ● Temple Park ● Wykery Copse ● Jock’s Copse ● Tinkers Copse ● Priestwood ● Binfield ● Binfield F.C. ● Quelm Park ● Piggy Wood ● Lawrence Hill, Berkshire ● Hayley Green Wood ● Warfield Hall ● Warfield ● Warfield Church ● Lambrook ● Moss End ● Ascot Place ● Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club ● Fernhill Park (Berkshire) ● Cranbourne, Berkshire ● Brock Hill ● Maidens Green ● Nuptown ● Chawridge Bourne ● Jealott’s Hill ● Winkfield
Getting to / around Bracknell Forest – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Bracknell Forest using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Bracknell Forest places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Bracknell Forest historians & Bracknell Forest tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Bracknell Forest? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Bracknell Forest’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 Bracknell Forest 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 Bracknell Forest 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 Bracknell Forest 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-Bracknell Forest’ web pages (for example: www.visitBracknell Forest.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. v1.131
Visit Bracknell Forest places on a day-trip, weekend away or holiday – and Walkfo becomes your personal digital tour guide to Bracknell Forest things to do.
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