Welcome to Visit Ightham Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Ightham
Visit Ightham places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Ightham places to visit. A unique way to experience Ightham’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Ightham as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Ightham Walkfo Preview Ightham is not mentioned in the Domesday Book, but place-name evidence implies the name is derived from the Saxon ‘Ehtaham’ The parish church dates from the 12th century, and in 1336 Edward II granted a request for permission to hold an annual fair in the village. When you visit Ightham, Walkfo brings Ightham places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Ightham Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Ightham
Visit Ightham – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 24 audio plaques & Ightham places for you to explore in the Ightham area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Ightham places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Ightham with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Ightham places with Walkfo Ightham to hear history at Ightham’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Ightham has 24 places to visit in our interactive Ightham 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 Ightham, 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 Ightham places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Ightham & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Ightham tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Ightham
Best Ightham places to visit
Ightham has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Ightham’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Ightham’s information audio spots:
St Clere, Kent St Clere is a Grade I listed 17th-century country house in Kemsing, Kent. The house is built in brick in three storeys plus basement and attic. The high pitched hipped slated roof is surmounted by a row of linked tall brick chimneys.
Heaverham Heaverham is a hamlet in the Sevenoaks district, in the county of Kent. Nearby is the country estate of St Clere.
Oldbury Camp Oldbury Camp is the largest Iron Age hill fort in south-eastern England. It was built in the 1st century BC by Celtic British tribes on a hilltop west of Ightham, Kent. The fort comprises a bank and ditch enclosing an area of about 50 hectares.
Ightham Mote Ightham Mote is a medieval moated manor house. The house is a Grade I listed building and is owned by the National Trust. The gardens are open to the public.
Comp, Kent Comp is a hamlet in the Tonbridge and Malling district, in the English county of Kent. It is one of several small villages in the area. Comp is also known as Comp, or Comp, and is a small village in the north-east of the county.
Basted, Kent Basted is a hamlet in the Tonbridge and Malling district, in the county of Kent, England. It is located in the north-east of the county and is named Basted.
Claygate Cross Claygate Cross is a hamlet in the Tonbridge and Malling district, in the English county of Kent. The hamlet is a small part of the Malling and Tonbridge district in the north-east of the county.
Crouch, Tonbridge and Malling Crouch is a hamlet in the Tonbridge and Malling district, in the English county of Kent. The hamlet is a small part of the Malling and Tonbridge district.
Yopps Green Yopps Green is a hamlet in the Tonbridge and Malling District, in the county of Kent. It is part of the small village of Plaxtol.
Visit Ightham plaques
0 plaques hereIghtham has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Ightham 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 Ightham using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Ightham plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Ightham audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Ightham allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Ightham’s 24 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Ightham freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Ightham Map App
Our visit Ightham map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Ightham & 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 Ightham tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Ightham centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Ightham area at LONG:0.288, LAT:51.285.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Ightham, 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 Ightham / surrounding areas
● St Clere, Kent ● Heaverham ● Seal Chart ● Oldbury rock shelters ● Oldbury Camp ● Oldbury and Seal Chart ● Ivy Hatch Nature Reserve ● The Old House, Ightham Common ● Ightham Mote ● Comp, Kent ● Platt, Kent ● Napps, Wrotham ● Wrotham ● Borough Green ● Basted, Kent ● Ightham ● Claygate Cross ● Crouch, Tonbridge and Malling ● Bourne Alder Carr ● Plaxtol ● Yopps Green ● Fairlawne ● Shipbourne ● Old Soar Manor
Getting to / around Ightham – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Ightham using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Ightham places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Ightham Public Transport Stations
Ightham Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Kemsing railway station
Wrotham transmitting station
Borough Green & Wrotham railway station
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Local Ightham historians & Ightham tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Ightham? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Ightham’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 Ightham 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 Ightham 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 Ightham 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-Ightham’ web pages (for example: www.visitIghtham.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