Visit Great Gidding Places

Welcome to Visit Great Gidding Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Great Gidding

  

Great Gidding Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Great Gidding

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Great Gidding history

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Great Gidding was listed as Geddinge, Gedelinge and Redinges in the Domesday Book in the Hundred of Leightonstone in Huntingdonshire. The village contained three manors and 40.5 households. On 10 June 1944, the US 8th Air Force was sent in a Flying Fortress called Bam Bam from RAF Molesworth to Nantes to shut down the German airfield there.

Great Gidding geography / climate

The Alconbury brook has a course of about 13 miles, rising near Lullington and joining the Ouse at Huntingdon. The normal level of the brook at Hamerton in average weather conditions is between 1.05m and 1.87m.

You can visit Great Gidding places with Walkfo Great Gidding to hear history at Great Gidding’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Great Gidding has 8 places to visit in our interactive Great Gidding 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 Great Gidding, 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 Great Gidding places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Great Gidding & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 8 audio facts unique to Great Gidding places in an interactive Great Gidding map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Great Gidding Places Map
8 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo Great Gidding tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Great Gidding

  

Best Great Gidding places to visit

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Great Gidding has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Great Gidding’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Great Gidding’s information audio spots:

Hamerton Zoo Park Hamerton Zoo Park is situated in Hamerton, near Sawtry, Huntingdonshire, England. It is located in the village of Hamerton in the north-east of the county.

St Andrew’s Church, Steeple Gidding St Andrew’s Church is a redundant Anglican church in the hamlet of Steeple Gidding, about 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

Thurning, Northamptonshire Thurning is 5.5 miles south-east of Oundle in Northamptonshire. The name probably means, ‘place with thorn trees’ At the time of the 2001 census, the population of the village was 93 people. At the 2011 Census the population remained less than 100 and is included in the civil parish of Hemington.

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