Welcome to Visit Cartmel Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Cartmel
Visit Cartmel places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Cartmel places to visit. A unique way to experience Cartmel’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Cartmel as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Cartmel is 2.2 miles (3.5 km) north-west of Grange-over-Sands close to the River Eea. The name means “sandbank by rocky ground”, from the Old Norse kartr (rocky ground) and melr. The ancient parish was traditionally known as the Land of Cartmel – an area quite separate from the Furness peninsula. Cartmel was the favourite holiday spot of the Lancashire dialect writer and BBC broadcaster Thomas Thompson. When you visit Cartmel, Walkfo brings Cartmel places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Cartmel Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Cartmel
Visit Cartmel – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 26 audio plaques & Cartmel places for you to explore in the Cartmel area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Cartmel places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Cartmel with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Cartmel places with Walkfo Cartmel to hear history at Cartmel’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Cartmel has 26 places to visit in our interactive Cartmel 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 Cartmel, 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 Cartmel places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Cartmel & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 26 audio facts unique to Cartmel places in an interactive Cartmel map you can explore.”
Walkfo: Visit Cartmel Places Map
26 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
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Best Cartmel places to visit
Cartmel has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Cartmel’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Cartmel’s information audio spots:
Grange Lido
Grange Lido is an open-air 50 m sea-water swimming pool in Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria. It opened in 1932 and closed in 1993, but campaigners are working to see it re-opened as a swimming pool.
Grange Fell Church, Grange-Over-Sands
Grange Fell Church is a Church of England church in Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria. It was built in 1907 and has a benefice of St Mary, Allithwaite, St Mary and St Michael.
Cark
Cark (sometimes Cark in Cartmel) is a village in Cumbria, England. It lies ½ mile north of Flookburgh, 2 miles southwest of Cartmel and 3 miles west of Grange-over-Sands. The village is served by the Cark and Cartmel railway station on the Furness Line between Barrow-in-Furness and Lancaster.
Visit Cartmel plaques
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here Cartmel has 15 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Cartmel 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 Cartmel using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Cartmel plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
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