Welcome to Visit Mid Calder Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Mid Calder
Visit Mid Calder places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Mid Calder places to visit. A unique way to experience Mid Calder’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Mid Calder as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Mid Calder Walkfo Preview Mid Calder (Scots: Mid Calder) is a village in West Lothian, Scotland. It is located on a steep hill overlooking the River Almond and Calder Wood. The settlement has been on a major crossroads since its origin some time in the eleventh century. When you visit Mid Calder, Walkfo brings Mid Calder places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Visit Mid Calder – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 28 audio plaques & Mid Calder places for you to explore in the Mid Calder area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Mid Calder places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Mid Calder history
Since 1348 the Sandilands family seat has been at Calder House, near to the middle of the village. For centuries a large part of the economy of the Scottish Highlands revolved around the breeding and trading of Highland cattle. The peak year was 1840 when some 150,000 cattle passed through the area over the three months from August to October.
Why visit Mid Calder with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Mid Calder places with Walkfo Mid Calder to hear history at Mid Calder’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Mid Calder has 28 places to visit in our interactive Mid Calder 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 Mid Calder, 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 Mid Calder places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Mid Calder & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 28 audio facts unique to Mid Calder places in an interactive Mid Calder map you can explore.”
Walkfo Mid Calder tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Mid Calder
Best Mid Calder places to visit
Mid Calder has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Mid Calder’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Mid Calder’s information audio spots:
Knightsridge Knightsridge (Scots: Knichtsrig) is an area of Livingston in West Lothian, Scotland. Knightsridge lies to the north of the town.
Ladywell, Livingston Ladywell (Scots: Leddywall) is an area primarily residential in Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland. It is bordered to the north by Knightsridge, to the south by Howden, Howden and to the west by Eliburn.
Nasmyth Bridge The Nasmyth Bridge is a Category A Listed historic bridge and local landmark in East Calder, Scotland. Located within the Almondell and Calderwood Country Park, it was designed by Scottish painter, architect, and landscape designer Alexander NasMyth.
East Calder East Calder is a village located in West Lothian, Scotland, about a mile east of Mid Calder and a mile west of Wilkieston. It forms part of ‘the Calders’ (together with Mid and West Calder), three small neighbouring communities. The East Calder Gala is a local highlight held every June, dating back to 1919.
River FM River FM was a radio station serving West Lothian, Scotland. It played a range of hit music and older classics. It could sometimes be picked up as far away as Kilmarnock, Dundee and Stirling.
Livingston Designer Outlet Livingston Designer Outlet is the largest outlet mall in Scotland. The glass roof reminiscent of the Crystal Palace was designed by an architect called Don Hisaka. It is currently undergoing a huge makeover in which the company has invested several million pounds.
Murieston Murieston (From Muir (moor) of Houstoun) is a primarily residential district on the southern edge of Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland. It lies to the south-east of Bellsquarry.
Kirknewton, West Lothian Kirknewton (Scots: Kirknewtoun, Scottish Gaelic: Eaglais a’ Bhaile Ùir) is a village formerly in the county of Midlothian and, since 1975, in West Lothian, Scotland. It lies south of the A71 from Edinburgh to Livingston, and north of the high-level road that runs along the north side of the Pentland Hills.
Almondell Viaduct The Almondell Viaduct is a single track viaduct spanning the gorge of the River Almond in Scotland. It is located in East Calder, West Lothian. It also spans the main canal feeder taking water from the Almond to the Union Canal.
Kirk of Calder Kirk of Calder is a medieval church in Mid Calder, West Lothian. It is listed as a Category A building by Historic Environment Scotland.
Visit Mid Calder plaques
0 plaques hereMid Calder has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Mid Calder 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 Mid Calder using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Mid Calder plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Mid Calder audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Mid Calder allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Mid Calder’s 28 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Mid Calder freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Mid Calder Map App
Our visit Mid Calder map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Mid Calder & 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 Mid Calder tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Mid Calder centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Mid Calder area at LONG:-3.481, LAT:55.8918.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Mid Calder, 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 Mid Calder / surrounding areas
● Pumpherston ● West Lothian ● Uphall Station ● Craigshill ● Mid Calder ● Knightsridge ● Howden House, West Lothian ● Kirkton, Livingston ● Ladywell, Livingston ● St John’s Hospital, Livingston ● Nasmyth Bridge ● Almondell and Calderwood Country Park ● East Calder ● The Centre (Livingston) ● River FM ● Livingston F.C. ● Livingston, West Lothian ● Livingston Designer Outlet ● Dedridge ● Livingston Village ● Burr-Brown Corporation ● Bellsquarry ● Murieston ● Bonnington House ● Jupiter Artland ● Kirknewton, West Lothian ● Almondell Viaduct ● Kirk of Calder
Getting to / around Mid Calder – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Mid Calder using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Mid Calder places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Mid Calder Public Transport Stations
Mid Calder Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Uphall railway station
Drumshoreland railway station
Livingston South railway station
Newpark railway station
Kirknewton railway station
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Local Mid Calder historians & Mid Calder tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Mid Calder? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Mid Calder’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 Mid Calder 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 Mid Calder 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 Mid Calder 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-Mid Calder’ web pages (for example: www.visitMid Calder.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