Visit High Spen Places

Welcome to Visit High Spen Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in High Spen

  

High Spen Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about High Spen

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You can visit High Spen places with Walkfo High Spen to hear history at High Spen’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo High Spen has 17 places to visit in our interactive High Spen 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 High Spen, 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 High Spen places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to High Spen & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 17 audio facts unique to High Spen places in an interactive High Spen map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit High Spen Places Map
17 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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

  

Best High Spen places to visit

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

Whinfield coke works Whinfield coke works was a large industrial complex located near Rowlands Gill in Tyne and Wear, North East England. The complex comprised a coking plant, alloy factory and power station. Waste heat from the plant provided heat for a power station later converted to generate electricity by burning coke.

Greenside, Tyne and Wear Greenside is a village in the extreme west of the Metropolitan County of Tyne and Wear. Once an independent village in County Durham, it became incorporated into Tyne & Wear in 1974 and then the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead in 1986.

Currock Hill Currock Hill is a hill in Tyne and Wear, England, which at 259 m (850 ft) is the highest point in the county, and in the metropolitan borough of Gateshead. The name ‘currock’ comes from the Celtic word for a cairn or a stack of stones.

Chopwell Colliery Chopwell Colliery was a coal mine situated at Chopwell, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. The pit was first sunk in 1781, and was closed on 25 November 1966. The colliery’s highest employment numbers were in 1921, when 2,185 people worked there.

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