Visit Hamble-le-Rice – things to do & explore
When you visit Hamble-le-Rice on a day-trip, weekend away or holiday, Walkfo is the digital tour guide to the hidden history & cultural facts that you can explore in Hamble-le-Rice. Millions of audio content spots are available when you travel by foot, bike, bus or car around Hamble-le-Rice through your mobile phone connected to headphones.
Overview of Hamble-le-Rice history & facts by Walkfo
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Hamble-le-Rice is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Eastleigh in Hampshire, England. It is best known for being an aircraft training centre during the Second World War and is a popular yachting location. The village and the River Hamble also featured in the 1980s BBC television series Howards’ Way. The village centre, known as The Square, Hamble, has a more traditional English village aesthetic which differentiates it from the small industrial areas (mostly marinas) close to the village.
Hamble-le-Rice history
Although previously known as “Hamble”, “Hamelea”, “Hammel”, and “Ham-en-le-Rice”, the village’s official name is now Hamble-le-Rice. The name “Hamble” is still in common usage. On 27 April 1992 the civil parish was renamed from “Hamble” to “Hamble-le-Rice”. To the south of the village, lies the site of an Iron Age promontory hillfort, Hamble Common Camp. The place-name ‘Hamble-le-Rice’ is first attested in a French document of 1147, where it appears as Amle. It appears as Hamele in 1270, and as hamele in the Rys in 1404. The village takes its name from the River Hamble; the Rice is the Old English hrīs meaning ‘brushwood’ or perhaps by extension ‘scrubland’, and of which the modern form is the word rushes. Thus a modern form of the name might be ‘Hamble-in-the-Rushes’. The area is home to the remains of a defensive structure dating to the reign of King Henry VIII. Known as St Andrew’s Castle, investigations suggest that it consisted of a rectangular structure fronted by a gun platform with a semi-circular layout. The structure was protected by a moat, with a two gun platforms mounted on the counterscarp. The structure was intact as late as the early 17th century.
You can visit Hamble-le-Rice, COUNTY/BOROUGH & use Walkfo to discover the best walking places with our free digital tour guide app created especially for Hamble-le-Rice. Walkfo Hamble-le-Rice has 300 locations with history, culture & travel facts, that you can explore the same way you can a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Hamble-le-Rice, being in the moment, without digital distraction and no limitations to a specific walking route – you choose where you want to go, when you want to go and Walkfo Hamble-le-Rice will keep up.
When you visit Hamble-le-Rice
When you visit Hamble-le-Rice, Walkfo is your digital tour guide while exploring by foot, bike or bus. With numerous walks, hikes, tourist locations & travel destinations available in Hamble-le-Rice, our travel AI guide helps you get the best from your visit to Hamble-le-Rice & the surrounding areas. Our explore Hamble-le-Rice app for iPhone & Android, allows you to experience the hidden history, culture and amazing facts throughout Hamble-le-Rice whilst out walking. The digital tour guide creates interactive audio stories driven by where you walk, so you can exploration Hamble-le-Rice’s National Heritage sites, tourist attractions, historic locations or city streets freely, without the restrictions of a predefined walk & walk map.
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 0 audio facts in Hamble-le-Rice alone that form an interactive Hamble-le-Rice walking map for you to explore.”
Best Hamble-le-Rice places to visit
Hamble-le-Rice has hundreds of places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are five of Hamble-le-Rice’s best destinations to visit when exploring the area. We have condensed the information with much more detail available within Walkfo when you visit the destinations.
bVisit Hamble-le-Rice plaques
Hamble-le-Rice has 0 plaques as part of nation or local tourist plaque schemes for you to explore when you visit. Plaque schemes such as National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide a visual geo marker to highlight points of interest things, at the places where they happened. Walkfo has researched each plaque to provide additional content when you visit the Hamble-le-Rice plaques whilst using the app. Experience the hidden history & stories behind each location as the Walkfo local tourist guide app uses GPS to trigger audio close to each Hamble-le-Rice plaque. Walkfo also offers millions of additional ‘virtual geo plaques’ that are unique to Walkfo, created across the UK (and the world).
When using Walkfo to explore Hamble-le-Rice, you will hear the full story of each of these plaques.
Experience Hamble-le-Rice audio walks & tours
Walkfo is a free app that shows you things to do / visit in Hamble-le-Rice on a map. You can explore the area as you wish, as you would do an art gallery or museum, and when you walk close to those locations, our digital tour guide will tell you history, culture & travel facts about the location in audio form. With headphone connected, you can explore Hamble-le-Rice freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Visiting Hamble-le-Rice with Walkfo’s things to do interactive map
The “Hamble-le-Rice things to do map” below is a preview of the places you can visit in Hamble-le-Rice and surrounding areas with our digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has content for a plaque, a building, a street or general area, providing history, culture or tourism information the you can explore.
| Interactive ‘Explore Hamble-le-Rice Map’
This Hamble-le-Rice tourism map shows points of interest within a 4km radius of Hamble-le-Rice centre | Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Hamble-le-Rice, go to your App Store to search for “Walkfo” or follow a links below and install on your mobile phone. Walkfo is designed for use with headphones or AirPods, so you can walk & explore whilst learning about the things around you without digital distraction.
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Things to do & visit in Hamble-le-Rice and surrounding areas
Getting to / around Hamble-le-Rice – transport links, stations, streets & traffic map
Getting around in Hamble-le-Rice using public transportation may include roads, streets, trains, undergrounds, buses or trams. Walkfo has the following important Hamble-le-Rice public transport locations with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
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Attention local Hamble-le-Rice historians, tour guides & Hamble-le-Rice tourism agents
Looking for a way to get more visitors to Hamble-le-Rice?
Whilst Walkfo has millions audio spots already available, Walkfo Creator allows tourist destinations, attractions & landmarks to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & walks using the simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. Creating an audio walk for you destination is free* and can be created in under 15 minutes if you have content ready, with Walkfo Creator doing all the hard work generating audio files for geo spot you simply click on a map.
The 100 Amazing Hamble-le-Rice Places outdoor museum was created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) as a way for people to safely explore the area during Covid-19 times whilst improving the experience of visiting a city when tourism boards use Walkfo to market their destination.
Walkfo is currently looking to partner with websites who offer things-to-do / what’s on events listings to add to our content on our webpages (for example: www.visitHamble-le-Rice.com). If you are interested in being a content provider, please contact us to discuss options.
* Walkfo Creator is free to use for a limited number of audio spots within a map with a license fee applicable when more than 20 audio spots within location walk are created.