Welcome to Visit Fairfield, Derbyshire Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Fairfield, Derbyshire
Visit Fairfield, Derbyshire places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Fairfield, Derbyshire places to visit. A unique way to experience Fairfield, Derbyshire’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Fairfield, Derbyshire as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Fairfield, Derbyshire Walkfo Preview Fairfield is a district of Buxton in the High Peak of Derbyshire. The historic medieval village of Fairfield was centred around a village green. When you visit Fairfield, Derbyshire, Walkfo brings Fairfield, Derbyshire places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Visit Fairfield, Derbyshire – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 54 audio plaques & Fairfield, Derbyshire places for you to explore in the Fairfield, Derbyshire area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Fairfield, Derbyshire places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Fairfield, Derbyshire history
The name Fairfield derives from the Germanic faeger feld meaning ‘fair open land’ Cistercian monks and Benedictine nuns founded monastic granges at Fairfield in the early 1200s AD. Fairfield was a chapelry in the parish of Hope (whereas Buxton was in the Bakewell parish) Fairfield and Buxton shared a medieval corn mill on the Wye in Mill Dale, where Ashwood Park is now.
Why visit Fairfield, Derbyshire with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Fairfield, Derbyshire places with Walkfo Fairfield, Derbyshire to hear history at Fairfield, Derbyshire’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Fairfield, Derbyshire has 54 places to visit in our interactive Fairfield, Derbyshire 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 Fairfield, Derbyshire, 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 Fairfield, Derbyshire places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Fairfield, Derbyshire & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Fairfield, Derbyshire tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Fairfield, Derbyshire
Best Fairfield, Derbyshire places to visit
Fairfield, Derbyshire has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Fairfield, Derbyshire’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Fairfield, Derbyshire’s information audio spots:
Great Rocks Dale Great Rocks Dale is a dry valley in the Derbyshire Peak District known for its extensive quarrying. It is also known for extensive quarry quarrying in the Peak District.
Buxton Town Hall Buxton Town Hall was opened in 1889 on the Market Place in Buxton, Derbyshire. It lies in the town’s central Conservation Area overlooking The Slopes. It is a Grade-II listed building.
Old Hall Hotel The Old Hall Hotel is one of the oldest buildings in Buxton, Derbyshire, England. The current building dates from the Restoration period, built around and incorporating an earlier fortified tower. It is believed to be the earliest known British building of cross-axial form.
St John The Baptist Church, Buxton St John The Baptist Church is a Grade II* listed parish church in Buxton, Derbyshire. The church was built in the 1930s and is located in the area of Buxton. It is now owned by the Church of England.
Cavendish Hospital Cavendish Hospital is a geriatric healthcare facility in Buxton, Derbyshire. The hospital is managed by Derbyhire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust.
Poole’s Cavern Pooles Cavern is a two-million-year-old natural limestone cave on the edge of Buxton in the Peak District, in Derbyshire, England. The cave forms part of the Wye system, and has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Buxton Pavilion Gardens Buxton Pavilion Gardens is a Victorian landscaped public park in the spa town of Buxton in Derbyshire. The River Wye flows through the gardens, which are a Grade II* listed public park of Special Historic Interest.
Harpur Hill Quarry Limestone was extracted there from 1835 to 1952 for lime burning at lime kilns to produce quicklime. The quarry was used by the Royal Air Force as a chemical weapons storage depot during the Second World War. The RAF depot closed in 1960 and the site is now vacant. A small part of the abandoned quarry has flooded to become a quarry lake.
Health and Safety Laboratory The Health and Safety Laboratory (HSE Laboratory or HSL Buxton) is a large 550-acre research site in rural High Peak, Derbyshire. It researches new methods in industrial safety.
Black Edge Black Edge is a summit, 507 metres (1,663 ft) high, on a sharp ridgeline above the village of Dove Holes in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District in Derbyshire.
Visit Fairfield, Derbyshire plaques
13 plaques hereFairfield, Derbyshire has 13 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Fairfield, Derbyshire 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 Fairfield, Derbyshire using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Fairfield, Derbyshire 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 Fairfield, Derbyshire allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Fairfield, Derbyshire’s 54 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Fairfield, Derbyshire freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Fairfield, Derbyshire Map App
Our visit Fairfield, Derbyshire map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Fairfield, Derbyshire & 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 Fairfield, Derbyshire tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Fairfield, Derbyshire centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Fairfield, Derbyshire area at LONG:-1.9029, LAT:53.2633.
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Things to do & visit in Fairfield, Derbyshire / surrounding areas
● Buxton and High Peak Golf Club ● Fairfield, Derbyshire ● Batham Gate ● Buxton Racecourse ● Great Rocks Dale ● Buxton F.C. ● Staden, Derbyshire ● Buxton TMD ● Hogshawe ● Green Fairfield ● Municipal Borough of Buxton ● Buxton ● Tunstead, Derbyshire ● Wye Valley, Derbyshire ● Palace Hotel, Buxton ● Buxton Crescent ● Aquae Arnemetiae ● Buxton Town Hall ● Old Hall Hotel ● Buxton Opera House ● Buxton Museum and Art Gallery ● Buxton Baths ● Devonshire Dome ● Devonshire Royal Hospital ● The Slopes, Buxton ● St John The Baptist Church, Buxton ● The Square, Buxton ● King Sterndale ● Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton ● Lightwood Reservoir
● St Anne’s Church, Buxton ● Cavendish Hospital ● Peak Dale ● Buxton Hospital ● Corbar Hill ● Cavendish Golf Club ● Lismore Fields ● Wye Head ● Burbage, Derbyshire ● Poole’s Cavern ● Buxton Pavilion Gardens ● Ann Croft ● Grin Low ● Solomon’s Temple, Buxton ● Combs Moss ● Burbage Edge ● Harpur Hill ● Harpur Hill Quarry ● RAF Harpur Hill ● Health and Safety Laboratory ● Black Edge ● St Ann’s Well (Buxton)
Getting to / around Fairfield, Derbyshire – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Fairfield, Derbyshire using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Fairfield, Derbyshire places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Fairfield, Derbyshire Public Transport Stations
Local Fairfield, Derbyshire historians & Fairfield, Derbyshire tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Fairfield, Derbyshire? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Fairfield, Derbyshire’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 Fairfield, Derbyshire 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 Fairfield, Derbyshire 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 Fairfield, Derbyshire 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-Fairfield, Derbyshire’ web pages (for example: www.visitFairfield, Derbyshire.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