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


Visit Chesser PlacesVisit Chesser places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Chesser places to visit. A unique way to experience Chesser’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Chesser as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.

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Chesser is a mainly residential suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland, east of the Water of Leith. It is named after John William Chesser, who was elected Lord Provost of Edinburgh in 1919 and died in office in 1921. When you visit Chesser, Walkfo brings Chesser places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

Chesser Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Chesser


Visit Chesser – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit

With 206 audio plaques & Chesser places for you to explore in the Chesser area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Chesser places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

Why visit Chesser with Walkfo Travel Guide App?


Visit Chesser PlacesYou can visit Chesser places with Walkfo Chesser to hear history at Chesser’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Chesser has 206 places to visit in our interactive Chesser 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 Chesser, 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 Chesser places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Chesser & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 206 audio facts unique to Chesser places in an interactive Chesser map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Chesser Places Map
206 tourist, history, culture & geography spots


 

  Chesser historic spots

  Chesser tourist destinations

  Chesser plaques

  Chesser geographic features

Walkfo Chesser tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Chesser

  

Best Chesser places to visit


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

Chesser photo Holy Corner
Holy Corner is a colloquial name for a small area of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is part of Burghmuirhead, itself part of the lands of Greenhill. Holy Corner lies between Bruntsfield and Morningside.
Chesser photo Dean Village
Dean Village (from dene, meaning ‘deep valley’) is a former village immediately northwest of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was known as the “Water of Leith Village” and was a successful grain milling area for more than 800 years.
Chesser photo Moray Estate
The Moray Estate in Edinburgh was an exclusive early 19th century building venture. Built on an awkward and steeply sloping site, it is a masterpiece of urban planning. It has accommodated the rich and famous from its outset.
Chesser photo Torphin
Torphin is an almost entirely non-residential area in the south-west of Edinburgh, Scotland. It lies just south of Juniper Green, on the opposite side of the Water of Leith, and sits both east and west of the Edinburgh City Bypass. The west side is largely rural, sporting a small number of mid-20th Century bungalows and one of Edinburgh’s many golf courses.
Chesser photo Merchiston
Merchiston is a residential area around Merchiston Avenue in the south-west of Edinburgh, Scotland. The area is known as Merchiston, or Merchiston in the north-east of Edinburgh.
Chesser photo Corstorphine
Corstorphine is a village and parish to the west of Edinburgh, now considered a suburb of that city. The actual “High Street” itself is no longer the main street, an anomaly shared with central Edinburgh. Famous residents include Olympic cyclist Sir Chris Hoy, Bible translator Alexander Thomson and Scottish Renaissance author Helen Cruickshank.
Chesser photo Drumsheugh Baths Club
The Drumsheugh Baths Club is a private swimming club founded in 1882 in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was founded in the 1882 and is now based in the city of Edinburgh.
Chesser photo West Register House
The building was constructed between 1811 and 1814 as St George’s Church on Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, Scotland. It was designed by Robert Reid after a similar but more intricate design by Robert Adam, who designed the square’s surrounding terraces. The facade centres on an Ionic portico, above which rises a substantial green copper dome on a tall, peristyle drum.
Chesser photo Saughton Park
Saughton Park is a public park in Edinburgh, Scotland. It includes formal gardens, specimen trees, exotic plant greenhouses, playing fields, an athletics track and a skateboard park. The skatepark was constructed in 2010 and is the largest in Scotland.
Chesser photo St. Kentigern’s Church, Edinburgh (Union Canal)
St. Kentigern’s Church is a former Episcopalian church in Viewforth, Edinburgh, Scotland. It was built in 1897 and was designed by John More Dick Peddie. The church closed in 1941 after which it was used as a nursery and garage.

Visit Chesser plaques


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Chesser has 75 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Chesser 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 Chesser using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Chesser plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.