Welcome to Visit Ickleford Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Ickleford
Visit Ickleford places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Ickleford places to visit. A unique way to experience Ickleford’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Ickleford as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Ickleford Walkfo Preview Ickleford is a large village situated on the northern outskirts of Hitchin in North Hertfordshire. It lies on the west bank of the River Hiz and to the east of the main A600 road. The population at the time of the 2011 census was 1,833. When you visit Ickleford, Walkfo brings Ickleford places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Ickleford Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Ickleford
Visit Ickleford – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 49 audio plaques & Ickleford places for you to explore in the Ickleford area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Ickleford places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Ickleford etymology
Its name is derived from it being a ford, that is a way to cross a river, along the Icknield Way. Another village, Ickford, shares the same etymology.
Why visit Ickleford with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Ickleford places with Walkfo Ickleford to hear history at Ickleford’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Ickleford has 49 places to visit in our interactive Ickleford 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 Ickleford, 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 Ickleford places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Ickleford & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo Ickleford tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Ickleford
Best Ickleford places to visit
Ickleford has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Ickleford’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Ickleford’s information audio spots:
Letchworth Cemetery Cemetery was the first burial ground for Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire. It is now closed for new burials but can be used if graves are being reopened and for prepurchased plots. Cremated remains are also still being interred at the cemetery.
Letchworth Museum & Art Gallery Letchworth Museum and Art Gallery was a museum in Hertfordshire, England. It had permanent displays dedicated to the natural history of the region, including the famous black squirrel.
Church of St Katharine, Ickleford The Church of St Katharine of Alexandria is the Church of England parish church for Ickleford in Hertfordshire. It is a Grade I listed building and comes under the Diocese of St Albans.
Church of St Mary, Letchworth The Church of St Mary the Virgin is the Church of England parish church of Letchworth in Hertfordshire. A church appears to have been on the site since before the Norman Conquest. The current church was built in the late 12th century and is Grade II listed.
River Purwell The River Purwell is a chalk stream in Hertfordshire. Its source is springs which rise out of the chalk bedrock at St Ippolyts, forming Ippollitts Brook. The entire course of the stream is near Hitchin.
Hitchin Priory Hitchin Priory in Hitchin in Hertfordshire is today a hotel built in about 1700 on the site of a Carmelite friary founded in 1317. Parts of the original priory are incorporated in the existing building, which has been a Grade I listed building since 1951.
Hitchin Museum and Art Gallery The Hitchin Museum and Art Gallery was a local history museum in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. It told the story of the town’s social history and of the rural industries that contributed to its prosperity.
Hitchin Cemetery Hitchin Cemetery, also known as St John’s Road Cemetery, is the main burial ground for the town of Hitchin. It has been owned and managed by North Hertfordshire District Council since 1974. The cemetery is located on Hitchin Hill, with Standhill Road running along the north-western boundary.
St Mary’s Church, Hitchin St Mary’s Church is a Church of England parish church in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. It dates from the 14th and 15th centuries, with its tower dating from around 1190. The church has been Grade I listed since 1951. During the laying of a new floor in 1911, foundations of a more ancient Saxon church building were found.
Butts Close Butts Close is an 11-acre (45,000 m) park in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. The name refers to the archery butts that used to be on it during the Late medieval and Tudor times. During those years it was much larger but in the last centuries it was built on it.
Visit Ickleford plaques
2 plaques hereIckleford has 2 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Ickleford 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 Ickleford using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Ickleford plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Ickleford audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Ickleford allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Ickleford’s 49 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Ickleford freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Ickleford Map App
Our visit Ickleford map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Ickleford & 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 Ickleford tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Ickleford centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Ickleford area at LONG:-0.28368, LAT:51.97036.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Ickleford, 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 Ickleford / surrounding areas
● Letchworth Cemetery ● Wilbury Hill Camp ● Letchworth ● North Hertfordshire District Council ● Letchworth Town Hall ● Letchworth Museum & Art Gallery ● Church of St Hugh of Lincoln, Letchworth ● Howgills, Letchworth Garden City ● River Oughton ● Hitchin Rural District ● Church of St Katharine, Ickleford ● Church of St Mary, Letchworth ● Ickleford ● River Purwell ● Walsworth ● Hitchin Up Yard ● Baldock Town F.C. ● Arlesey Town F.C. ● Purwell Meadows ● Charlton, Hertfordshire ● Hitchin Priory ● Hitchin ● Hitchin Museum and Art Gallery ● Hitchin Cemetery ● North Hertfordshire Museum ● St Mary’s Church, Hitchin ● Hitchin Town Hall ● Hitchin Town Cricket Club Ground ● Sunnyside (Hitchin) ● Butts Close
● Queen Mother Theatre ● Hitchin Town F.C. ● Oughtonhead Lane ● Highbury Ward ● Westmill (Hitchin) ● Hitchin Oughton ● Benslow Music Trust ● Bearton ● Benslow ● Oughtonhead Nature Reserve ● Oughtonhead Common ● Poets Estate (Hitchin) ● Purwell Ninesprings ● Holwell, Hertfordshire ● Pirton, Hertfordshire ● Hitchin Flyover ● Wymondley Roman Villa
Getting to / around Ickleford – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Ickleford using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Ickleford places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Ickleford Public Transport Stations
Ickleford Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Hitchin railway station
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Local Ickleford historians & Ickleford tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Ickleford? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Ickleford’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 Ickleford 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 Ickleford 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 Ickleford 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-Ickleford’ web pages (for example: www.visitIckleford.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 Ickleford places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Ickleford places to visit. A unique way to experience Ickleford’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Ickleford as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Ickleford places with Walkfo Ickleford to hear history at Ickleford’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Ickleford has 49 places to visit in our interactive Ickleford 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 Ickleford, 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 Ickleford places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Ickleford & the surrounding areas.
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Trying to encourage visitors to Ickleford?