Welcome to Visit Iken Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Iken
Visit Iken places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Iken places to visit. A unique way to experience Iken’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Iken as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Iken is a small village and civil parish in the sandlands of Suffolk, an area formerly of heathland and sheep pasture. It is near the estuary of the River Alde on the North Sea coast and is located south east of Snape and due north of Orford. The population reached a peak of 380 in 1840, steadily declining to around 100. During World War II most of Iken and the neighbouring village of Sudbourne were used as a battle training area in advance of the D-Day landings in June 1944. When you visit Iken, Walkfo brings Iken places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Iken Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Iken
Visit Iken – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 21 audio plaques & Iken places for you to explore in the Iken area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Iken places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Iken with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Iken places with Walkfo Iken to hear history at Iken’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Iken has 21 places to visit in our interactive Iken 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 Iken, 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 Iken places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Iken & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 21 audio facts unique to Iken places in an interactive Iken map you can explore.”
Walkfo: Visit Iken Places Map
21 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
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Best Iken places to visit
Iken has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Iken’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Iken’s information audio spots:
Snape Maltings
Snape Maltings is an arts complex on the banks of the River Alde at Snape, Suffolk. It is best known for its concert hall, which is one of the main sites of the Aldeburgh Festival. The original purpose of the Maltings was the malting of barley for the brewing of beer.
Blaxhall Common
The reserve is owned by Blaxhall Parish Council and managed by Suffolk Wildlife Trust. It is designated a 45.9 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. A Bronze Age bowl barrow is a Scheduled Monument.
Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
The Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery is a place of burial dated to the 6th century AD located on Snape Common, near to the town of Aldeburgh in Suffolk. The first recorded excavation of the site was conducted by antiquarians in 1827, with a later, more thorough investigation taking place in 1862 under the control of landowner Septimus Davidson.
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here Iken has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Iken 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 Iken using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Iken plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
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