Visit Great Haywood Places

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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Great Haywood

  

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

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You can visit Great Haywood places with Walkfo Great Haywood to hear history at Great Haywood’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Great Haywood has 26 places to visit in our interactive Great Haywood 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 Haywood, 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 Haywood places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Great Haywood & the surrounding areas.

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Walkfo: Visit Great Haywood Places Map
26 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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

  

Best Great Haywood places to visit

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

Milford Hall Milford Hall is a privately owned 18th-century English country house at Milford, near Stafford. It is the family seat of the Levett Haszard family and is Grade II listed building.

Milford, Staffordshire Milford lies at the edge of Cannock Chase on the A513 road between Stafford and Rugeley. Just to the north of the village is the River Sow.

Wolseley Hall Wolseley Hall was a stately home near the village of Colwich, in Staffordshire, England. It was demolished in 1966; the former gardens are now a nature reserve.

Wolseley Centre The Wolseley Centre is a visitor centre and nature reserve of the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust. It is located about 2 miles (3 km) north-west of Rugeley, and about 7 miles (11 km) south-east of the county town of Stafford. The Trust has two visitor centres; the other is at Westport Lake in Stoke-on-Trent.

Tixall Gatehouse Tixall Gatehouse was used as a prison for Mary, Queen of Scots for two weeks in 1586. The gatehouse is a Grade I listed building.

Staffordshire County Museum Staffordshire County Museum is housed in the Servants’ Quarters of Shugborough Hall, Milford, near Stafford, England. It features a restored Victorian kitchen, laundry and brewhouse as well as permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions.

Shugborough Tunnel The Shugborough Tunnel is a 777-yard (710 m) railway tunnel on the Trent Valley line. It is located between Stafford station and Colwich Junction in Colwich, Staffordshire. It was built in 1846 and is the largest engineering work on the line. Both portals are grade II listed.

St Mary’s Abbey, Colwich Saint Mary’s Abbey was a monastery of Roman Catholic nuns of the English Benedictine Congregation, founded in 1623 at Cambrai, Flanders, in the Spanish Netherlands. During the French Revolution, the community was expelled from France and settled at The Mount in 1836.

Shugborough inscription The Shugborough Inscription is a sequence of letters – O U O S V A V V, between the letters D M – carved on the 18th-century Shepherd’s Monument. It has never been satisfactorily explained, and has been called one of the world’s top uncracked ciphertexts.

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