Welcome to Visit Cropston Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Cropston
Visit Cropston places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Cropston places to visit. A unique way to experience Cropston’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Cropston as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Cropston Walkfo Preview Cropston is part of the Borough of Charnwood in Leicestershire. The village’s name means ‘farm/settlement of Kroppr/Croppa’ The village lies close to Bradgate Park, with two pubs and a garage. When you visit Cropston, Walkfo brings Cropston places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Cropston Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Cropston
Visit Cropston – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 37 audio plaques & Cropston places for you to explore in the Cropston area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Cropston places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Cropston with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Cropston places with Walkfo Cropston to hear history at Cropston’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Cropston has 37 places to visit in our interactive Cropston 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 Cropston, 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 Cropston places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Cropston & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 37 audio facts unique to Cropston places in an interactive Cropston map you can explore.”
Walkfo Cropston tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Cropston
Best Cropston places to visit
Cropston has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Cropston’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Cropston’s information audio spots:
Newtown Linford Newtown Linford is a linear village in Leicestershire, England. It is located in a valley in the Charnwood Forest area. The population of the civil parish was 1,000 at the 2001 census, including Ulverscroft and increasing to 1,103 at the 2011 census.
St Mary & St John Church, Rothley St Mary & St John is a Church of England parish church in Rothley, England. It has a congregation of mixed ages and backgrounds. It aims “to reach out with the good news of Jesus Christ”
Swithland railway station Swithland was a railway station on the Great Central Main Line between Rothley and Quorn and Woodhouse. The station was due to open in March 1899 but was never completed. The line through the station site was closed in May 1969.
Beaumont Leys Beaumont Leys is a suburb and electoral ward in north-western Leicester. The population of the ward at the 2011 census was 16,480. Locally used in reference to the large housing estate, built within the administrative division.
Beaumont Shopping Centre The 301,099 sq ft (27,973.0 m) shopping centre is owned by British Land and managed by GVA. Beaumont Shopping Centre is in Beaumon Leys, on the edge of Leicester.
County Hall, Glenfield Leicestershire County Hall is a municipal building on Leicester Road (the A50) in Glenfield. It is the headquarters of Leicesterhire County Council. The building is located in the centre of Glenfield on the A50 in the area.
St Mary’s Church, Anstey St Mary’s Church is the Church of England parish church in Anstey, Leicestershire, in the Diocese of Leicester.
Thurcaston Thurcaston is best known as the home to Bishop Hugh Latimer. It borders the villages of Anstey and Cropston, as well as the Leicester suburb of Beaumont Leys. The Rothley Brook flows through the village, separating it from the A46 Leicester Western Bypass.
Anstey, Leicestershire Anstey is a large village in Leicestershire, located north west of Leicester in the borough of Charnwood. Its population was 6,528 at the 2011 census. It is a combination of traditional English village (with two village greens) and industrial town.
List of local nature reserves in Leicestershire Leicestershire is a county in the East Midlands of England. The area of the administrative county is 806 square miles (2,090 km) and the population according to the 2011 census is 980,000. Leicester City Council is a unitary authority, with seven district councils in the second tier. As of December 2017 there are 23 local nature reserves in the county, the largest is Burbage Common and Woods at 85 hectares (210 acres)
Visit Cropston plaques
0 plaques hereCropston has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Cropston 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 Cropston using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Cropston plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Cropston audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Cropston allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Cropston’s 37 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Cropston freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Cropston Map App
Our visit Cropston map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Cropston & 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 Cropston tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Cropston centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Cropston area at LONG:-1.18, LAT:52.69.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Cropston, 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 Cropston / surrounding areas
● Sheet Hedges Wood ● Newtown Linford ● Bradgate Park and Cropston Reservoir ● Bradgate House (16th century) ● Bradgate Park ● Mountsorrel ● Rothley ● St Mary & St John Church, Rothley ● Swithland Sidings ● Rothley Temple ● Swithland Reservoir ● Swithland Viaduct ● Rothley Court ● Rothley Brook ● Beaumont Leys ● Beaumont Shopping Centre ● Glenfield Hospital ● County Hall, Glenfield ● Anstey Nomads F.C. ● St Mary’s Church, Anstey ● Thurcaston ● Anstey, Leicestershire ● Swithland Hall ● Mountsorrel Cross ● List of local nature reserves in Leicestershire ● List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Leicestershire ● Leicestershire ● Swithland ● Thurcaston and Cropston ● Cropston
● Cropston Reservoir ● Swithland Wood and The Brand ● Roecliffe Manor Lawns ● Bradgate Electoral Division ● Old John
Getting to / around Cropston – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Cropston using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Cropston places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Cropston Public Transport Stations
Cropston Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Swithland railway station
Rothley railway station
Belgrave and Birstall railway station
Halstead Road Centenary Pasture
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Local Cropston historians & Cropston tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Cropston? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Cropston’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 Cropston 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 Cropston 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 Cropston 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-Cropston’ web pages (for example: www.visitCropston.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 Cropston places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Cropston places to visit. A unique way to experience Cropston’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Cropston as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
With 37 audio plaques & Cropston places for you to explore in the Cropston area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Cropston places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
You can visit Cropston places with Walkfo Cropston to hear history at Cropston’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Cropston has 37 places to visit in our interactive Cropston 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 Cropston, 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 Cropston places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Cropston & the surrounding areas.
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