Welcome to Visit Harpur Hill Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Harpur Hill
Visit Harpur Hill places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Harpur Hill places to visit. A unique way to experience Harpur Hill’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Harpur Hill as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Harpur Hill Walkfo Preview RAF Harpur Hill was established as an underground munitions store. Tunnels were dug out to house munitions and ordnance. Many of the bunkers can still be seen in the surrounding hillside. A railway was constructed with old London Underground Jubilee Line trains which were used to reconstruct the 7 July 2005 London bombings. When you visit Harpur Hill, Walkfo brings Harpur Hill places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Harpur Hill Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Harpur Hill
Visit Harpur Hill – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 50 audio plaques & Harpur Hill places for you to explore in the Harpur Hill area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Harpur Hill places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Harpur Hill with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Harpur Hill places with Walkfo Harpur Hill to hear history at Harpur Hill’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Harpur Hill has 50 places to visit in our interactive Harpur Hill 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 Harpur Hill, 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 Harpur Hill places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Harpur Hill & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 50 audio facts unique to Harpur Hill places in an interactive Harpur Hill map you can explore.”
Walkfo Harpur Hill tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Harpur Hill
Best Harpur Hill places to visit
Harpur Hill has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Harpur Hill’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Harpur Hill’s information audio spots:
Buxton Town Hall Buxton Town Hall was opened in 1889 on the Market Place in Buxton, Derbyshire. It lies in the town’s central Conservation Area overlooking The Slopes. It is a Grade-II listed building.
Old Hall Hotel The Old Hall Hotel is one of the oldest buildings in Buxton, Derbyshire, England. The current building dates from the Restoration period, built around and incorporating an earlier fortified tower. It is believed to be the earliest known British building of cross-axial form.
St John The Baptist Church, Buxton St John The Baptist Church is a Grade II* listed parish church in Buxton, Derbyshire. The church was built in the 1930s and is located in the area of Buxton. It is now owned by the Church of England.
Cavendish Hospital Cavendish Hospital is a geriatric healthcare facility in Buxton, Derbyshire. The hospital is managed by Derbyhire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust.
Poole’s Cavern Pooles Cavern is a two-million-year-old natural limestone cave on the edge of Buxton in the Peak District, in Derbyshire, England. The cave forms part of the Wye system, and has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Buxton Pavilion Gardens Buxton Pavilion Gardens is a Victorian landscaped public park in the spa town of Buxton in Derbyshire. The River Wye flows through the gardens, which are a Grade II* listed public park of Special Historic Interest.
Harpur Hill Quarry Limestone was extracted there from 1835 to 1952 for lime burning at lime kilns to produce quicklime. The quarry was used by the Royal Air Force as a chemical weapons storage depot during the Second World War. The RAF depot closed in 1960 and the site is now vacant. A small part of the abandoned quarry has flooded to become a quarry lake.
Health and Safety Laboratory The Health and Safety Laboratory (HSE Laboratory or HSL Buxton) is a large 550-acre research site in rural High Peak, Derbyshire. It researches new methods in industrial safety.
Visit Harpur Hill plaques
13 plaques hereHarpur Hill has 13 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Harpur Hill 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 Harpur Hill using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Harpur Hill plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Harpur Hill audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Harpur Hill allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Harpur Hill’s 50 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Harpur Hill freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Harpur Hill Map App
Our visit Harpur Hill map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Harpur Hill & surrounding areas using the Walkfo digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has plaque, building, street or area information on history, culture or tourism.
You can set your Walkfo’s Harpur Hill tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Harpur Hill centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Harpur Hill area at LONG:-1.904, LAT:53.237.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Harpur Hill, 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.
Things to do & visit in Harpur Hill / surrounding areas
● Buxton and High Peak Golf Club ● Fairfield, Derbyshire ● Buxton Racecourse ● Buxton F.C. ● Staden, Derbyshire ● Buxton TMD ● Hogshawe ● Green Fairfield ● Municipal Borough of Buxton ● Buxton ● Wye Valley, Derbyshire ● Palace Hotel, Buxton ● Buxton Crescent ● Aquae Arnemetiae ● Buxton Town Hall ● Old Hall Hotel ● Buxton Opera House ● Buxton Museum and Art Gallery ● Buxton Baths ● Devonshire Dome ● Devonshire Royal Hospital ● The Slopes, Buxton ● St John The Baptist Church, Buxton ● The Square, Buxton ● King Sterndale ● Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton ● St Anne’s Church, Buxton ● Cavendish Hospital ● Buxton Hospital ● Corbar Hill
● Cavendish Golf Club ● Lismore Fields ● Wye Head ● Burbage, Derbyshire ● Poole’s Cavern ● Buxton Pavilion Gardens ● Ann Croft ● Grin Low ● Solomon’s Temple, Buxton ● Harpur Hill ● Harpur Hill Quarry ● RAF Harpur Hill ● Health and Safety Laboratory ● Deep Dale ● Axe Edge Moor ● Chrome Hill ● St Ann’s Well (Buxton) ● High Edge
Getting to / around Harpur Hill – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Harpur Hill using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Harpur Hill places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Harpur Hill Public Transport Stations
Harpur Hill Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Fairfield Halt railway station
Higher Buxton railway station
Buxton railway station
Buxton railway station (Midland Railway)
Hindlow railway station
Park Road, Buxton
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Local Harpur Hill historians & Harpur Hill tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Harpur Hill? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Harpur Hill’s places, attractions & landmarks ability to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & using our simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. – Creating a new audio experience for your Harpur Hill place is free* and quick (15+ minutes if you prepare text content) to use, with Walkfo Creator doing the hard work of generating AI audio files for geo-spots from the text you provide with a simply click on a map. – The 100 Amazing Harpur Hill Places is just one example of an outdoor museum created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) for people to safely explore during Covid-19 times whilst visiting a city. Our tool is open to tourism organisations, travel destinations & National Trust locations to create their own audio walks to offer free when people visit Harpur Hill destinations. – Walkfo itself is looking to partner with websites offering things-to-do / what’s on events listings to enhance the content of our ‘visit-Harpur Hill’ web pages (for example: www.visitHarpur Hill.com). If you are interested in partnering, 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. v1.1336
Visit Harpur Hill places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Harpur Hill places to visit. A unique way to experience Harpur Hill’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Harpur Hill as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Harpur Hill places with Walkfo Harpur Hill to hear history at Harpur Hill’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Harpur Hill has 50 places to visit in our interactive Harpur Hill 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 Harpur Hill, 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 Harpur Hill places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Harpur Hill & the surrounding areas.
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Trying to encourage visitors to Harpur Hill?