Visit Kirkpatrick-Juxta – things to do & explore
When you visit Kirkpatrick-Juxta on a day-trip, weekend away or holiday, Walkfo is the digital tour guide to the hidden history & cultural facts that you can explore in Kirkpatrick-Juxta. Millions of audio content spots are available when you travel by foot, bike, bus or car around Kirkpatrick-Juxta through your mobile phone connected to headphones.
Overview of Kirkpatrick-Juxta history & facts by Walkfo
Planning a visit to Kirkpatrick-Juxta?
Kirkpatrick-Juxta is a parish in Dumfries and Galloway on the A701, between Biggar, Moffat and Lockerbie. The parish straddles the main road A74 (M). It is primarily a rural parish. One source describes its name as meaning “the lands next to the church of St Patrick”. Another source describes it as the church of St. Patrick named in the15th century as closest to the See of Glasgow (the other churches were Kirkpatrick-Fleming, Kirkpatrick in Nithsdale, Kirkpatrick-Durham and Kirkpatrick-Irongray). Another source says the original name was Kilpatrick. The 1791-1845 Statistical Accounts of Scotland described the size of the Parish as 21,000 acres or 33 square miles with Johnstone Parish to the South, Crawford and closeburn to the West and Wamphry and Moffat to the East and North. Previously the parish was part of the county of Dumfriesshire but became part of the Dumfries and Galloway Council Area following the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1974. The parish church was built in 1798/1799 designed by John McCracken a mason from Dumfries. It was remodelled and given a new interior in 1875 by James Barbour. The previous church was built about 1676. The parish includes Beattock railway station, sections of the River Annan and Queensberry Hill. The ruins of Auchincass Castle also lie in the parish.
You can visit Kirkpatrick-Juxta, COUNTY/BOROUGH & use Walkfo to discover the best walking places with our free digital tour guide app created especially for Kirkpatrick-Juxta. Walkfo Kirkpatrick-Juxta has 300 locations with history, culture & travel facts, that you can explore the same way you can a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Kirkpatrick-Juxta, being in the moment, without digital distraction and no limitations to a specific walking route – you choose where you want to go, when you want to go and Walkfo Kirkpatrick-Juxta will keep up.
When you visit Kirkpatrick-Juxta
When you visit Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Walkfo is your digital tour guide while exploring by foot, bike or bus. With numerous walks, hikes, tourist locations & travel destinations available in Kirkpatrick-Juxta, our travel AI guide helps you get the best from your visit to Kirkpatrick-Juxta & the surrounding areas. Our explore Kirkpatrick-Juxta app for iPhone & Android, allows you to experience the hidden history, culture and amazing facts throughout Kirkpatrick-Juxta whilst out walking. The digital tour guide creates interactive audio stories driven by where you walk, so you can exploration Kirkpatrick-Juxta’s National Heritage sites, tourist attractions, historic locations or city streets freely, without the restrictions of a predefined walk & walk map.
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 0 audio facts in Kirkpatrick-Juxta alone that form an interactive Kirkpatrick-Juxta walking map for you to explore.”
Best Kirkpatrick-Juxta places to visit
Kirkpatrick-Juxta has hundreds of places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are five of Kirkpatrick-Juxta’s best destinations to visit when exploring the area. We have condensed the information with much more detail available within Walkfo when you visit the destinations.
bVisit Kirkpatrick-Juxta plaques
Kirkpatrick-Juxta has 0 plaques as part of nation or local tourist plaque schemes for you to explore when you visit. Plaque schemes such as National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide a visual geo marker to highlight points of interest things, at the places where they happened. Walkfo has researched each plaque to provide additional content when you visit the Kirkpatrick-Juxta plaques whilst using the app. Experience the hidden history & stories behind each location as the Walkfo local tourist guide app uses GPS to trigger audio close to each Kirkpatrick-Juxta plaque. Walkfo also offers millions of additional ‘virtual geo plaques’ that are unique to Walkfo, created across the UK (and the world).
When using Walkfo to explore Kirkpatrick-Juxta, you will hear the full story of each of these plaques.
Experience Kirkpatrick-Juxta audio walks & tours
Walkfo is a free app that shows you things to do / visit in Kirkpatrick-Juxta on a map. You can explore the area as you wish, as you would do an art gallery or museum, and when you walk close to those locations, our digital tour guide will tell you history, culture & travel facts about the location in audio form. With headphone connected, you can explore Kirkpatrick-Juxta freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Visiting Kirkpatrick-Juxta with Walkfo’s things to do interactive map
The “Kirkpatrick-Juxta things to do map” below is a preview of the places you can visit in Kirkpatrick-Juxta and surrounding areas with our digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has content for a plaque, a building, a street or general area, providing history, culture or tourism information the you can explore.
| Interactive ‘Explore Kirkpatrick-Juxta Map’
This Kirkpatrick-Juxta tourism map shows points of interest within a 4km radius of Kirkpatrick-Juxta centre | Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Kirkpatrick-Juxta, 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.
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Things to do & visit in Kirkpatrick-Juxta and surrounding areas
Getting to / around Kirkpatrick-Juxta – transport links, stations, streets & traffic map
Getting around in Kirkpatrick-Juxta using public transportation may include roads, streets, trains, undergrounds, buses or trams. Walkfo has the following important Kirkpatrick-Juxta public transport locations with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
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Attention local Kirkpatrick-Juxta historians, tour guides & Kirkpatrick-Juxta tourism agents
Looking for a way to get more visitors to Kirkpatrick-Juxta?
Whilst Walkfo has millions audio spots already available, Walkfo Creator allows tourist destinations, attractions & landmarks to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & walks using the simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. Creating an audio walk for you destination is free* and can be created in under 15 minutes if you have content ready, with Walkfo Creator doing all the hard work generating audio files for geo spot you simply click on a map.
The 100 Amazing Kirkpatrick-Juxta Places outdoor museum was created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) as a way for people to safely explore the area during Covid-19 times whilst improving the experience of visiting a city when tourism boards use Walkfo to market their destination.
Walkfo is currently looking to partner with websites who offer things-to-do / what’s on events listings to add to our content on our webpages (for example: www.visitKirkpatrick-Juxta.com). If you are interested in being a content provider, 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.