Welcome to Visit Gloucestershire Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Gloucestershire
Visit Gloucestershire places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Gloucestershire places to visit. A unique way to experience Gloucestershire’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Gloucestershire as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Gloucestershire is a county in South West England . The county town is the city of Gloucester, and other principal towns include Cheltenham, Stroud, Tewkesbury, Cirencester, Dursley, Cinderford, and Lydney . Some northern parts of the county, including Long Marston and Welford-on-Avon, were transferred to Warwickshire in 1931 . When you visit Gloucestershire, Walkfo brings Gloucestershire places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Gloucestershire Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Gloucestershire
Visit Gloucestershire – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 25 audio plaques & Gloucestershire places for you to explore in the Gloucestershire area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Gloucestershire places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Gloucestershire history
Gloucestershire is a historic county mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the 10th century. It originally included Bristol, then a small town, and Bristol became a county in its own right in 1373. It later became part of the administrative County of Avon from 1974 to 1996.
Why visit Gloucestershire with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Gloucestershire places with Walkfo Gloucestershire to hear history at Gloucestershire’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Gloucestershire has 25 places to visit in our interactive Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire, 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 Gloucestershire places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Gloucestershire & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 25 audio facts unique to Gloucestershire places in an interactive Gloucestershire map you can explore.”
Walkfo: Visit Gloucestershire Places Map
25 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
Gloucestershire historic spots | Gloucestershire tourist destinations | Gloucestershire plaques | Gloucestershire geographic features |
Walkfo Gloucestershire tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Gloucestershire |
Best Gloucestershire places to visit
Gloucestershire has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Gloucestershire’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Gloucestershire’s information audio spots:
![]() | Brockworth Brockworth is a parish, village and district of Gloucester in Gloucestershire . It is located 4 miles southeast of central Gloucester, 6 miles southwest of Cheltenham and 11.5 miles (18.5 km) north of Stroud . During World War II the nearby village of Hucclecote at the Gloster Aircraft Company produced the famous Hawker Hurricane fighter . |
![]() | Coopers Edge Coopers Edge is a new build suburb situated in Brockworth, Gloucester, between the city of Gloucester and the town of Cheltenham . Building began in 2007 at the foot of Coopers Hill . |
![]() | Great Witcombe Great Witcombe is a village and civil parish 5 miles (8 km) south east of Gloucester, in the Tewkesbury district, in Gloucestershire . In 2001 the parish had a population of 80 . |
![]() | Great Witcombe Roman Villa Great Witcombe Roman Villa was a villa built during the Roman occupation of Britain . It is located on a hillside near Gloucester in the English county of Gloucestershire . |
![]() | Hucclecote Meadows Hucclecote Meadows (grid reference SO872163) is a 5.74-hectare (14.2-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest . The western area is also a Local Nature Reserve . |
![]() | Heart Gloucestershire Heart Gloucestershire (formerly Severn Sound) was a local radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Heart network . It broadcast from studios in Gloucester . The transmitter was at Churchdown Hill, just west of the M5 . |
![]() | Matson, Gloucester Matson is a suburb in the City of Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England. It is located on the outskirts of the city centre. |
![]() | Coney Hill Hospital Coney Hill Hospital was a mental health facility in Gloucester, England. It was located on the outskirts of Gloucester in the 1960s and 1960s. |
![]() | Knap House Quarry, Birdlip Knap House Quarry, Birdlip is a 1.80-hectare (4.4-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire. The site is listed in the ‘Cotswold District’ Local Plan 2001-2011 (on line) as a Key Wildlife Site (KWS) and a Regionally Important Geological Site (RIGS) |
Visit Gloucestershire plaques
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plaques
here Gloucestershire has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Gloucestershire plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.