Welcome to Visit Hazlerigg Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Hazlerigg
Visit Hazlerigg places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Hazlerigg places to visit. A unique way to experience Hazlerigg’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Hazlerigg as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Hazlerigg Walkfo Preview Hazlerigg (often misspelled Hazelrigg) is a village and civil parish north of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is about 5 miles (8.0 km) north of the city centre, on the A1. The population of the civil Parish taken at the 2011 Census was 980. When you visit Hazlerigg, Walkfo brings Hazlerigg places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Hazlerigg Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Hazlerigg
Visit Hazlerigg – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 39 audio plaques & Hazlerigg places for you to explore in the Hazlerigg area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Hazlerigg places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Hazlerigg history
Hazlerigg was once the site of a colliery, which was in use from 1892 to 1964. The village prospered due to the export business thriving within it. There were concerns that subsidence from the mining was threatening the runway of Newcastle Airport.
Why visit Hazlerigg with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Hazlerigg places with Walkfo Hazlerigg to hear history at Hazlerigg’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Hazlerigg has 39 places to visit in our interactive Hazlerigg 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 Hazlerigg, 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 Hazlerigg places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Hazlerigg & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 39 audio facts unique to Hazlerigg places in an interactive Hazlerigg map you can explore.”
Walkfo Hazlerigg tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Hazlerigg
Best Hazlerigg places to visit
Hazlerigg has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Hazlerigg’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Hazlerigg’s information audio spots:
Newcastle Racecourse Newcastle Racecourse is a horse racing course located at Gosforth Park in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, owned by Arena Racing Company. It stages both flat and National Hunt racing, with its biggest meeting being the Northumberland Plate held annually in June.
Gosforth Park Gosforth Park is a park north of Gosforth in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. It houses Newcastle Racecourse, Virgin Money Unity Arena, a Britannia hotel, two golf courses, a garden centre and a football centre. It is also home to Gosforth Nature Reserve, a private SSSI managed by the Natural History Society of Northumbria.
Gosforth House Gosforth House now known as Brandling House is a Grade II listed building built as a mansion house. It is now serving as a hospitality and conference centre at Gosforth Park Racecourse.
Gosforth Nature Reserve Gosforth Nature Reserve is a wildlife haven in Tyne and Wear. It includes extensive woodland and wetland habitats. Access to the reserve is restricted to NHSN members and those in possession of a valid day pass. Dog walking and other recreational activities are not permitted on site.
Fawdon Wagonway The Fawdon Wagonway was from 1818 to 1826 a 1 mile 3 furlongs (2.2 km) long horse-drawn and partially rope-operated industrial railway. It was the first cable car employing a moving rope that could be picked up or released by a grip on the cars.
Regent Centre Regent Centre is a large business park in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. The business park has its own transport interchange with a station on the Tyne & Wear Metro and integrated bus station.
Havannah Nature Reserve Havannah Nature Reserve lies to the west of the village of Hazlerigg, north of Newcastle upon Tyne. It was declared a nature reserve in 1998 and is designated a Site of Local Conservation Interest. Owned by Newcastle City Council and managed by Urban Green Newcastle.
Woolsington Hall Woolsington Hall is a Grade II* listed country house in a 92-acre (37 ha) estate in Newcastle. The hall is not habitable and requires full restoration. It has been on the Heritage at Risk Register since 2002.
Brenkley Brenkley is a hamlet and former civil parish about 6 miles from Newcastle upon Tyne, now in the parish of Dinnington. In 1951 the parish had a population of 28.
Visit Hazlerigg plaques
0 plaques hereHazlerigg has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Hazlerigg 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 Hazlerigg using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Hazlerigg plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Hazlerigg audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Hazlerigg allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Hazlerigg’s 39 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Hazlerigg freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Hazlerigg Map App
Our visit Hazlerigg map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Hazlerigg & 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 Hazlerigg tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Hazlerigg centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Hazlerigg area at LONG:-1.631, LAT:55.0429.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Hazlerigg, 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 Hazlerigg / surrounding areas
● Annitsford ● Dudley, Tyne and Wear ● McCracken Park ● North Gosforth ● Newcastle Racecourse ● Gosforth Park ● Gosforth House ● Parklands, Newcastle upon Tyne ● Gosforth Nature Reserve ● Broadway West Sports Ground ● Sacred Heart Church, North Gosforth ● Fawdon Wagonway ● Newcastle Great Park ● Regent Centre Interchange ● Red House Farm ● Regent Centre ● Hazlerigg ● West Gosforth ● Northern Rock ● Sage Group ● Gosforth Urban District ● Fawdon ● Coxlodge ● Wideopen ● Brunswick Village ● Havannah Nature Reserve ● Kingston Park (stadium) ● Seaton Burn ● Camperdown, Tyne and Wear ● Woolsington Hall
● Newcastle International Airport ● RAF Woolsington ● Dinnington, Tyne and Wear ● Castle, Newcastle upon Tyne ● Brenkley ● Burradon, Tyne and Wear ● Seaton Burn Wagonway
Getting to / around Hazlerigg – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Hazlerigg using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Hazlerigg places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Hazlerigg Public Transport Stations
Hazlerigg Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Annitsford railway station
Killingworth railway station
Wansbeck Road Metro station
West Gosforth railway station
Fawdon Metro station
Coxlodge railway station
Kingston Park Metro station
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Local Hazlerigg historians & Hazlerigg tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Hazlerigg? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Hazlerigg’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 Hazlerigg 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 Hazlerigg 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 Hazlerigg 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-Hazlerigg’ web pages (for example: www.visitHazlerigg.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 Hazlerigg places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Hazlerigg places to visit. A unique way to experience Hazlerigg’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Hazlerigg as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Hazlerigg places with Walkfo Hazlerigg to hear history at Hazlerigg’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Hazlerigg has 39 places to visit in our interactive Hazlerigg 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 Hazlerigg, 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 Hazlerigg places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Hazlerigg & the surrounding areas.
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