Welcome to Visit Ilkeston Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Ilkeston
Visit Ilkeston places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Ilkeston places to visit. A unique way to experience Ilkeston’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Ilkeston as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Ilkeston Walkfo Preview Ilkeston is a town in the Borough of Erewash, Derbyshire, England, on the River Erewash. Its major industries, coal mining, iron working and lace making/textiles, have now almost disappeared. The town is close to both Derby and Nottingham and is near the M1 motorway. When you visit Ilkeston, Walkfo brings Ilkeston places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Ilkeston Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Ilkeston
Visit Ilkeston – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 38 audio plaques & Ilkeston places for you to explore in the Ilkeston area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Ilkeston places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Ilkeston with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Ilkeston places with Walkfo Ilkeston to hear history at Ilkeston’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Ilkeston has 38 places to visit in our interactive Ilkeston 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 Ilkeston, 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 Ilkeston places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Ilkeston & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 38 audio facts unique to Ilkeston places in an interactive Ilkeston map you can explore.”
Walkfo Ilkeston tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Ilkeston
Best Ilkeston places to visit
Ilkeston has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Ilkeston’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Ilkeston’s information audio spots:
Shipley Hall Shipley Hall was a country estate in Shipley, Derbyshire near Heanor and Ilkeston which now forms a Country Park.
Nuthall Temple Nuthall Temple in Nottinghamshire was one of five houses said to have been inspired by Palladio’s Villa Capra in Vicenza. Only two 18th century examples remain: Mereworth Castle and Chiswick House. Foots Cray Place was demolished in 1950 after a fire in 1949.
St Mary’s Church, Ilkeston St Mary’s Church, Ilkeston is a Grade II* listed parish church in Derbyshire. Built in the 14th century, it is known as the “Mollis Chapel” because of a stained glass window which shows the rising sun above the cross which was fixed to it by the local saint.
St Helen’s Church, Trowell St Helen’s Church is a Grade II* listed Anglican parish church in Trowell, Nottinghamshire. It was built in the 1930s.
Ilkeston Community Hospital Ilkeston Community Hospital is a healthcare facility in Derbyshire, England. It is located at Heanor Road, Ilkseston in Derbyshire. It was built in 1960s.
Ilkeston F.C. Ilkeston Football Club was an English semi-professional football club. It was based at the New Manor Ground in Derbyshire, England.
Visit Ilkeston plaques
0 plaques hereIlkeston has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Ilkeston 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 Ilkeston using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Ilkeston plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Ilkeston audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Ilkeston allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Ilkeston’s 38 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Ilkeston freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Ilkeston Map App
Our visit Ilkeston map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Ilkeston & 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 Ilkeston tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Ilkeston centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Ilkeston area at LONG:-1.309, LAT:52.971.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Ilkeston, 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.
Our Ilkeston accommodation map shows places to stay & prices for when you visit Ilkeston.
Things to do & visit in Ilkeston / surrounding areas
● Awsworth ● Giltbrook Viaduct ● Babbington ● Bennerley Viaduct ● Cossall ● St Catherine’s Church, Cossall ● Shipley, Derbyshire ● Shipley Hall ● The American Adventure Theme Park ● Erewash Valley ● Oldmoor Wood ● Trowell MSA ● Nuthall Temple ● West Hallam ● Mapperley, Derbyshire ● Kirk Hallam ● Rutland Recreation Ground, Ilkeston ● All Saints’ Church, Kirk Hallam ● Borough of Broxtowe ● Nottingham Canal ● St Luke’s Church, Stapleford ● Stanton by Dale ● St Mary’s Church, Ilkeston ● Ilkeston Town Hall ● Municipal Borough of Ilkeston ● Ilkeston ● Erewash Museum ● Gallows Inn ● Trowell ● St Helen’s Church, Trowell
● Erewash Sound ● Ilkeston Community Hospital ● Ilkeston F.C. ● Cotmanhay ● Willoughby Almshouses ● Ilkeston Town F.C.
Getting to / around Ilkeston – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Ilkeston using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Ilkeston places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Ilkeston Public Transport Stations
Ilkeston Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Awsworth railway station
Marlpool railway station
Shipley Gate railway station
Newthorpe, Greasley and Shipley Gate railway station
Stanton Gate railway station
Trowell railway station
Ilkeston Town railway station
Ilkeston North railway station
Ilkeston railway station
Ilkeston Junction and Cossall railway station
Railway
Ilkeston did not have a railway station from 1967 to 2017, despite its substantial population and the fact that the Erewash Valley Line skirts the eastern edge of the town. By some definitions it was, by some definitions, one of the largest towns in Britain with no railway station. In March 2013 Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin announced a new station would be built, costing £5 million. It has two platforms, which can take six trains per hour with up to six passenger cars.
Buses
TrentBarton operate the majority of bus routes around Ilkeston. The two and 21 into Nottingham, Black Cat to Mansfield and My15 to Long Eaton. CT4N operate some Derbyshire County Council tendered routes.
Local Ilkeston historians & Ilkeston tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Ilkeston? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Ilkeston’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 Ilkeston 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 Ilkeston 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 Ilkeston 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-Ilkeston’ web pages (for example: www.visitIlkeston.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 Ilkeston places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Ilkeston places to visit. A unique way to experience Ilkeston’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Ilkeston as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Ilkeston places with Walkfo Ilkeston to hear history at Ilkeston’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Ilkeston has 38 places to visit in our interactive Ilkeston 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 Ilkeston, 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 Ilkeston places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Ilkeston & the surrounding areas.
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