Welcome to Visit Coalbrookdale Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Coalbrookdale
Visit Coalbrookdale places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Coalbrookdale places to visit. A unique way to experience Coalbrookdale’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Coalbrookdale as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Coalbrookdale Walkfo Preview Coalbrookdale is a village in the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire. It contains a settlement of great significance in the history of iron ore smelting. This is where iron ore was first smelted by Abraham Darby using easily mined “coking coal” When you visit Coalbrookdale, Walkfo brings Coalbrookdale places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Coalbrookdale Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Coalbrookdale
Visit Coalbrookdale – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 46 audio plaques & Coalbrookdale places for you to explore in the Coalbrookdale area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Coalbrookdale places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Coalbrookdale with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Coalbrookdale places with Walkfo Coalbrookdale to hear history at Coalbrookdale’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Coalbrookdale has 46 places to visit in our interactive Coalbrookdale 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 Coalbrookdale, 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 Coalbrookdale places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Coalbrookdale & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 46 audio facts unique to Coalbrookdale places in an interactive Coalbrookdale map you can explore.”
Walkfo Coalbrookdale tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Coalbrookdale
Best Coalbrookdale places to visit
Coalbrookdale has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Coalbrookdale’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Coalbrookdale’s information audio spots:
Horsehay Horsehay lies in the Dawley Hamlets parish, and on the northern edge of the Ironbridge Gorge area. The name is Anglo-Saxon for ‘an enclosure for horses’ It also has a Methodist Chapel, a village hall, a post office and a golf course.
St James’ Church, Stirchley St James’ Church is a redundant Anglican church in Stirchley, Shropshire, England. It was formerly a separate village but is now part of the new town of Telford. The churchyard is designated as a Scheduled ancient monument.
Coalbrookdale Institute Coalbrookdale Institute is a former library and scientific institute. Dating from the mid-19th century it is now used as a youth hostel. It is a Grade II* listed building.
St Michael’s Church, Madeley St Michael’s Church, Madeley is one of three places of worship that constitute the Parish of Madeley, a Church of England parish. The parish is part of the Diocese of Hereford.
Blists Hill Victorian Town Blists Hill Victorian Town is an open-air museum built on a former industrial complex in Telford, Shropshire. The museum attempts to recreate the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Originally the museum was an industrial region consisting of a brick and tile works, blast furnaces and coal, iron and fire clay mines.
Ironbridge and Broseley railway station Ironbridge and Broseley railway station was a railway station with two through platforms on the Severn Valley Railway Line in Shropshire. It was demolished in 1966 to provide car parking space within Severn Gorge. Virtually all traces of station platforms, station building and goods shed have been swept away.
Broseley The first iron bridge in the world was built in 1779 across the Severn, linking Broseley with Coalbrookdale and Madeley. This contributed to the early industrial development in the Ironbridge Gorge, which is now part of a World Heritage Site.
Preens Eddy Preens Eddy is a settlement on the south bank of the River Severn, opposite Coalport. Its history lies at the heart of the industrial revolution.
Visit Coalbrookdale plaques
25 plaques hereCoalbrookdale has 25 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Coalbrookdale 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 Coalbrookdale using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Coalbrookdale plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Coalbrookdale audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Coalbrookdale allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Coalbrookdale’s 46 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Coalbrookdale freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Coalbrookdale Map App
Our visit Coalbrookdale map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Coalbrookdale & 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 Coalbrookdale tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Coalbrookdale centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Coalbrookdale area at LONG:-2.492, LAT:52.639.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Coalbrookdale, 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 Coalbrookdale / surrounding areas
● Telford steam tram ● Telford Steam Railway ● Dawley Hamlets ● Dawley ● Horsehay ● Springwell Pit disaster ● Lightmoor Junction ● St James’ Church, Stirchley ● Darby Houses ● Coalbrookdale Coalfield ● Madeley Court ● Coalbrookdale ● Coalbrookdale Museum of Iron ● Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust ● Coalbrookdale Institute ● Haberdashers’ Abraham Darby ● Madeley, Shropshire ● St Michael’s Church, Madeley ● Blists Hill Victorian Town ● Enginuity ● Ironbridge ● The Iron Bridge ● Jackfield ● Jackfield Tile Museum ● Museum of the Gorge, Ironbridge ● Merrythought ● Broseley Pipeworks ● Birchmeadow Playing Fields ● Hay Inclined Plane ● The Tuckies, Jackfield, Shropshire
● Albert Edward Bridge ● Tar Tunnel ● Broseley ● Preens Eddy ● Benthall, Shropshire ● The Werps ● Coalport China Museum ● Coalport ● Benthall Hall ● Little Wenlock ● Wyke, Shropshire ● Buildwas ● Resolution (beam engine) ● Buildwas Abbey
Getting to / around Coalbrookdale – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Coalbrookdale using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Coalbrookdale places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Coalbrookdale Public Transport Stations
Coalbrookdale Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Horsehay and Dawley railway station
Doseley Halt railway station
Dawley and Stirchley railway station
Lightmoor Platform railway station
Green Bank Halt railway station
Madeley railway station (Shropshire)
Madeley Market railway station
Ironbridge and Broseley railway station
Coalbrookdale railway station
Jackfield Halt railway station
Ironbridge power stations
Buildwas railway station
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Local Coalbrookdale historians & Coalbrookdale tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Coalbrookdale? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Coalbrookdale’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 Coalbrookdale 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 Coalbrookdale 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 Coalbrookdale 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-Coalbrookdale’ web pages (for example: www.visitCoalbrookdale.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 Coalbrookdale places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Coalbrookdale places to visit. A unique way to experience Coalbrookdale’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Coalbrookdale as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Coalbrookdale places with Walkfo Coalbrookdale to hear history at Coalbrookdale’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Coalbrookdale has 46 places to visit in our interactive Coalbrookdale 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 Coalbrookdale, 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 Coalbrookdale places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Coalbrookdale & the surrounding areas.
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