Welcome to Visit Lydiard Tregoze Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Lydiard Tregoze
Visit Lydiard Tregoze places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Lydiard Tregoze places to visit. A unique way to experience Lydiard Tregoze’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Lydiard Tregoze as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Lydiard Tregoze Walkfo Preview
Lydiard Tregoze is a small village and civil parish on the western edge of Swindon in the county of Wiltshire. It has in the past been spelt as Liddiard Tregooze and in many other ways. The parish includes Hook, and the hamlets of Hook Street and Ballard’s Ash. When you visit Lydiard Tregoze, Walkfo brings Lydiard Tregoze places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Lydiard Tregoze Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Lydiard Tregoze
Visit Lydiard Tregoze – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 27 audio plaques & Lydiard Tregoze places for you to explore in the Lydiard Tregoze area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Lydiard Tregoze places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Lydiard Tregoze history
Lydiard Tregoze is mentioned in the Doomsday Book as a manor belonging to Alfred of Marlborough, Baron of Ewyas and a Tenant-in-Chief to King William I of England. The village originally centred on the medieval parish church of St Mary and the nearby manor house, Lydard House, which came to be the home of the St John family, Viscounts Bolingbroke. The original village disappeared, giving way to the grounds of an important country house.
Midgehall
The manor and tithing of Midgehall was south of Hook. It was granted to Stanley Abbey in the 1150s. Later members of the Pleydell family sat in Parliament for Wootton Bassett. The 18th-century farmhouse survives; the manor house was to its north.
Why visit Lydiard Tregoze with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Lydiard Tregoze places with Walkfo Lydiard Tregoze to hear history at Lydiard Tregoze’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Lydiard Tregoze has 27 places to visit in our interactive Lydiard Tregoze 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 Lydiard Tregoze, 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 Lydiard Tregoze places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Lydiard Tregoze & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo: Visit Lydiard Tregoze Places Map
27 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
Lydiard Tregoze historic spots | Lydiard Tregoze tourist destinations | Lydiard Tregoze plaques | Lydiard Tregoze geographic features |
Walkfo Lydiard Tregoze tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Lydiard Tregoze |
Best Lydiard Tregoze places to visit
Lydiard Tregoze has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Lydiard Tregoze’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Lydiard Tregoze’s information audio spots:
Link Centre
The Link Centre is owned by Swindon Borough Council and operated by Greenwich Leisure under the brand “Better” It is best known for its national-sized ice rink which houses an English Premier Ice Hockey League team.
Renault Centre
The Renault Centre (or the Renault Distribution Centre) is a high tech building in Swindon commissioned by the French car company Renault for their UK operations. Designed by the British architect Norman Foster of Foster Associates, it opened in 1982 and Renault moved out in 2001.
Rodbourne
Rodbourne is a suburb of Swindon in Wiltshire. It is north of the town centre and about 0.9 miles (1.4 km) northwest of railway station.
Mouldon Hill Country Park
Mouldon Hill Country Park is a country park to the north west of Swindon, within the parish of Haydon Wick and close to Thamesdown Drive. The park is named after a small hill within it that rises from the River Ray and peaks at 105 metres above sea level.
St Augustine’s Church, Even Swindon
The Church of St. Augustine is an Anglican parish church in Even Swindon (also known locally as Rodbourne) The church was built to serve the spiritual needs of people moving to the town because of the Great Western Railway Works. The church is in the Diocese of Bristol and the province of Canterbury.
St Mary’s Church, Purton
St Mary’s Church is in the village of Purton in north Wiltshire. It is one of only three churches in England to have both a western tower and a central spire. It has been designated a Grade I listed building by English Heritage.
Ringsbury Camp
Ringsbury Camp is an Iron Age hill fort thought to date from approximately the year 50BC. It is located in the civil parish of Purton in Wiltshire. The site is a scheduled monument.
Visit Lydiard Tregoze plaques
1
plaques
here Lydiard Tregoze has 1 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Lydiard Tregoze 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 Lydiard Tregoze using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Lydiard Tregoze plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.