Visit Great Stoke Places

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

  

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

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You can visit Great Stoke places with Walkfo Great Stoke to hear history at Great Stoke’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Great Stoke has 60 places to visit in our interactive Great Stoke 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 Stoke, 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 Stoke places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Great Stoke & the surrounding areas.

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Walkfo: Visit Great Stoke Places Map
60 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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

  

Best Great Stoke places to visit

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

North Fringe of Bristol The North Fringe of Bristol lies between the M4 and M5 motorways. Its eastern edge is usually defined as the M32 motorway. The area falls within South Gloucestershire Council, and is northern part of Greater Bristol.

MoD Abbey Wood MoD Abbey Wood is a Ministry of Defence establishment at Filton, Bristol, United Kingdom. It was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in July 1996. 15 government departments employing some 13,400 people relocated to the site.

Lockleaze Lockleaze is 3 miles (5 km) north of the city centre, south of Filton, east of Horfield and west of Frenchay. The suburb was developed immediately after World War II. It is a residential area of social housing built on the western flank of Purdown on a north-south axis, that was separated from Horfield by the main Bristol to South Wales railway line.

Stoke Park, Bristol Stoke Park is a public open space of 108 hectares (270 acres) in Bristol. It occupies a prominent position on the eastern flanks of Purdown, alongside the M32 motorway. Approximately 80% of the park is within the Bristol ward of Lockleaze, the remainder within South Gloucestershire.

St John the Baptist, Frenchay St John the Baptist is a church in the Frenchay area of Bristol, England. It was built in the 18th century. It is located in Frenchay, Bristol, and is located on the outskirts of Bristol.

Oldbury Court Estate Oldbury Court Estate is a park in Fishponds, Bristol, about 3 miles (4.8 km) north-east of the city centre. It is listed Grade II in English Heritage’s Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest. The parkland contains woods and riverside wildlife.

The Dower House, Stoke Park The Dower House, Stoke Park is one of Bristol’s more prominent landmarks. It was built in 1553 by Sir Richard Berkeley and used as a dower house by the Dukes of Beaufort at nearby Badminton House. The house was used as part of Stoke Park Hospital, previously Stoke Park Colony, from 1909. It closed as hospital wards in 1986 when the final remaining patients were moved to other wards.

Blackberry Hill Hospital Blackberry Hill Hospital is an NHS psychiatric hospital in Fishponds, Bristol. Opened as a prison in 1779, many of its buildings and the Glenside campus of the University of the West of England are Grade II listed. From 1948 until 2005, the site was also a geriatric hospital.

Bristol Robotics Laboratory The Bristol Robotics Laboratory is the largest academic centre for multi-disciplinary robotics research in the UK. It is the result of a collaboration between University of Bristol and the University of the West of England in Bristol and is situated on UWE’s Frenchay Campus.

Defence Equipment and Support Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) is a trading entity and joint-defence organisation within the UK Ministry of Defence. It began operating on 2 April 2007, following the merger of the Defence Procurement Agency and the Defence Logistics Organisation. De&S initially had a civilian and military workforce of around 29,000 (77 per cent civilian and 23 per cent military)

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