Welcome to Visit Donnington, Berkshire Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Donnington, Berkshire
Visit Donnington, Berkshire places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Donnington, Berkshire places to visit. A unique way to experience Donnington, Berkshire’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Donnington, Berkshire as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Donnington, Berkshire Walkfo Preview Donnington is a suburban village in the civil parish of Shaw-cum-Donnington, just north of the town of Newbury in Berkshire. It contains a ruined medieval castle and Strawberry Hill Gothic mansion. When you visit Donnington, Berkshire, Walkfo brings Donnington, Berkshire places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Visit Donnington, Berkshire – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 56 audio plaques & Donnington, Berkshire places for you to explore in the Donnington, Berkshire area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Donnington, Berkshire places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Donnington, Berkshire with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Donnington, Berkshire places with Walkfo Donnington, Berkshire to hear history at Donnington, Berkshire’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Donnington, Berkshire has 56 places to visit in our interactive Donnington, Berkshire 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 Donnington, Berkshire, 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 Donnington, Berkshire places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Donnington, Berkshire & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Donnington, Berkshire tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Donnington, Berkshire
Best Donnington, Berkshire places to visit
Donnington, Berkshire has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Donnington, Berkshire’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Donnington, Berkshire’s information audio spots:
Newbury power station Newbury power station supplied electricity to the town of Newbury, Berkshire, from 1905 to 1970. It comprised, at various times, hydro-electric, gas engine and diesel engine powered plant with a maximum output capacity of 2.57 MW.
Phoenix Brewery The Phoenix Brewery (also known as Finns Brewery) was a brewery run by the Finns family in Newbury, Berkshire, UK.
Newbury Town Hall Newbury Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place in Newbury, Berkshire, England. The building is a Grade II listed building.
Parkway Newbury Parkway Newbury is a retail and residential development in Newbury, Berkshire. Includes 475,000 sq ft (44,000 m) of retail and restaurant accommodation and Marks & Spencer.
Shaw, Berkshire Shaw is located to the north of Newbury, near the village of Donnington. It is in the parish of Shaw-cum-Donnington.
Shaw House, Berkshire Shaw House is an important example of an early symmetrical H-plan Elizabethan mansion, located at Shaw, on the north-eastern outskirts of Newbury in Berkshire.
Donnington Friary Donnington Friary was a friary of crouched friars at Donnington in Berkshire. At the time of suppression the establishment was recorded as Trinitarian, but this was later corrected to Crossed Friars.
Donnington Castle Donnington Castle was founded by Sir Richard Abberbury the Elder in 1386. During the First English Civil War the castle was held by the royalist Sir John Boys and withstood an 18-month siege. Parliament voted to demolish the castle in 1646 and only the gatehouse survives.
Rack Marsh Rack Marsh is a 4-hectare (9.9-acre) nature reserve in Bagnor, on the north-western outskirts of Newbury in Berkshire. It is managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
Benham Park Benham Park is 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Newbury within 500m of a junction of the A34 trunk road Newbury by-pass outside the town side. The house is a Grade II* listed building and park is Grade II.
Visit Donnington, Berkshire plaques
3 plaques hereDonnington, Berkshire has 3 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Donnington, Berkshire 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 Donnington, Berkshire using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Donnington, Berkshire plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Donnington, Berkshire allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Donnington, Berkshire’s 56 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Donnington, Berkshire freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Donnington, Berkshire Map App
Our visit Donnington, Berkshire map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Donnington, Berkshire & 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 Donnington, Berkshire tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Donnington, Berkshire centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Donnington, Berkshire area at LONG:-1.331, LAT:51.418.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Donnington, Berkshire, 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 Donnington, Berkshire / surrounding areas
● St John the Evangelist Church, Newbury ● Corn Exchange, Newbury ● Newbury F.C. ● West Berkshire Museum ● Black Boys Bridge ● Newbury, Berkshire ● West Berkshire ● Phoenix Brewery ● Newbury Town Hall ● Greenham Lock ● St Nicolas Church, Newbury ● Newbury Bridge ● Victoria Park, Newbury ● Newbury Lock ● Newbury Racecourse ● Parkway Newbury ● Audrey’s Meadow ● Ham Lock ● Speenhamland, Berkshire ● Shaw, Berkshire ● River Lambourn ● Shaw House, Berkshire ● Benham Hill ● West Berkshire Community Hospital ● Shaw-cum-Donnington ● Bull’s Lock ● Donnington Friary ● Speen, Berkshire ● Guyer’s Lock ● Second Battle of Newbury
Getting to / around Donnington, Berkshire – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Donnington, Berkshire using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Donnington, Berkshire places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Donnington, Berkshire Public Transport Stations
Local Donnington, Berkshire historians & Donnington, Berkshire tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Donnington, Berkshire? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Donnington, Berkshire’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 Donnington, Berkshire 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 Donnington, Berkshire 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 Donnington, Berkshire 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-Donnington, Berkshire’ web pages (for example: www.visitDonnington, Berkshire.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