Visit Haughton-le-Skerne – things to do & explore
When you visit Haughton-le-Skerne 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 Haughton-le-Skerne. Millions of audio content spots are available when you travel by foot, bike, bus or car around Haughton-le-Skerne through your mobile phone connected to headphones.
Overview of Haughton-le-Skerne history & facts by Walkfo
Planning a visit to Haughton-le-Skerne?
Haughton-le-Skerne is a village in the borough of Darlington in the ceremonial county of County Durham, England. It is situated in the north east of Darlington. The village lies to the west of the River Skerne. At the centre of the village green, is the main road towards Darlington town centre going across the river, south of the church. There used to be a linen mill on the riverbank on the east side of the village. Part of the mill leat can still be seen today. St Andrew’s Church at the west end of the village green is the oldest church in Darlington, circa 1125. Some of the stones may have originated in a previous church on the same site. Parts of the existing rectory have monastic ruins built into the foundation and some inner walls, speculated to be evidence of an earlier building on this site. On the north side of Haughton-le-Skerne, a turnpike led over the river to the ports on the Tees estuary, carrying traffic including salt from the Bishop’s salt mines. Haughton-le-Skerne is now connected to a large suburb of Darlington, with areas including Springfield and Whinfield. The community was referred to in the ITV series Downton Abbey as it was the location where Mrs. Beryl Patmore (Lesley Nicol) would find a cottage which would serve as a boarding house, and when she retired, would serve as her home for her retirement days. John Wrightson (1840-1916), founder of Downton Agricultural College and great grandfather of Downton writer Julian Fellowes was born in the village.
You can visit Haughton-le-Skerne, COUNTY/BOROUGH & use Walkfo to discover the best walking places with our free digital tour guide app created especially for Haughton-le-Skerne. Walkfo Haughton-le-Skerne 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 Haughton-le-Skerne, 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 Haughton-le-Skerne will keep up.
When you visit Haughton-le-Skerne
When you visit Haughton-le-Skerne, Walkfo is your digital tour guide while exploring by foot, bike or bus. With numerous walks, hikes, tourist locations & travel destinations available in Haughton-le-Skerne, our travel AI guide helps you get the best from your visit to Haughton-le-Skerne & the surrounding areas. Our explore Haughton-le-Skerne app for iPhone & Android, allows you to experience the hidden history, culture and amazing facts throughout Haughton-le-Skerne whilst out walking. The digital tour guide creates interactive audio stories driven by where you walk, so you can exploration Haughton-le-Skerne’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 Haughton-le-Skerne alone that form an interactive Haughton-le-Skerne walking map for you to explore.”
Best Haughton-le-Skerne places to visit
Haughton-le-Skerne has hundreds of places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are five of Haughton-le-Skerne’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 Haughton-le-Skerne plaques
Haughton-le-Skerne 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 Haughton-le-Skerne 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 Haughton-le-Skerne 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 Haughton-le-Skerne, you will hear the full story of each of these plaques.
Experience Haughton-le-Skerne audio walks & tours
Walkfo is a free app that shows you things to do / visit in Haughton-le-Skerne 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 Haughton-le-Skerne freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Visiting Haughton-le-Skerne with Walkfo’s things to do interactive map
The “Haughton-le-Skerne things to do map” below is a preview of the places you can visit in Haughton-le-Skerne 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 Haughton-le-Skerne Map’
This Haughton-le-Skerne tourism map shows points of interest within a 4km radius of Haughton-le-Skerne 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 Haughton-le-Skerne, 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 Haughton-le-Skerne and surrounding areas
Getting to / around Haughton-le-Skerne – transport links, stations, streets & traffic map
Getting around in Haughton-le-Skerne using public transportation may include roads, streets, trains, undergrounds, buses or trams. Walkfo has the following important Haughton-le-Skerne public transport locations with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
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Attention local Haughton-le-Skerne historians, tour guides & Haughton-le-Skerne tourism agents
Looking for a way to get more visitors to Haughton-le-Skerne?
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 Haughton-le-Skerne 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.visitHaughton-le-Skerne.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.