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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Great Ponton
Visit Great Ponton places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Great Ponton places to visit. A unique way to experience Great Ponton’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Great Ponton as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Great Ponton is 3 miles (5 km) south of Grantham on the A1 trunk road, which bisects the village. The 2001 Census recorded a population of 333, of whom all were of white ethnic origin and 87 per cent described themselves as Christian. The population of the civil parish had risen to 379 at the 2011 Census. When you visit Great Ponton, Walkfo brings Great Ponton places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Great Ponton Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Great Ponton
Visit Great Ponton – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 14 audio plaques & Great Ponton places for you to explore in the Great Ponton area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Great Ponton places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Great Ponton history
The village is named in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Magna Pamptune, probably meaning “farmstead by a hill” Some material remains have been found dating back to the Neolithic age. The Grade I church dedicated to the Holy Cross dates from the 13th century.
Great Ponton geography / climate
Great Ponton is bisected by the A1 about 3 miles (5 km) south of Grantham. Further east is the River Witham and the East Coast Main Line. Nearby villages include Stoke Rochford, Stroxton and Little Ponton.
Why visit Great Ponton with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Great Ponton places with Walkfo Great Ponton to hear history at Great Ponton’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Great Ponton has 14 places to visit in our interactive Great Ponton 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 Ponton, 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 Ponton places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Great Ponton & the surrounding areas.
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14 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
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Best Great Ponton places to visit
Great Ponton has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Great Ponton’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Great Ponton’s information audio spots:
Ponton Heath Barrow Cemetery
The Ponton Heath Barrow Cemetery is a group of at least eleven Middle Bronze Age round barrows south of Grantham. Five of the barrows were destroyed by ironstone quarrying in 1959; the remaining six are scheduled monuments. The sites have been placed on the Heritage at Risk Register.
Ellys Manor House
Ellys Manor House (pronounced “Ellis”), or the Old Rectory is a late-fifteenth to early sixteenth century manor house in Great Ponton, Lincolnshire. It was built by Anthony Ellys (or Ellis), a wool merchant, and member of the Staple of Calais, who also built the tower of the village church. The house was restored as a Rectory by the Grantham architect Wilfred Bond.
Visit Great Ponton plaques
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here Great Ponton has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Great Ponton 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 Great Ponton using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Great Ponton plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
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