Welcome to Visit Mile Oak Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Mile Oak
Visit Mile Oak places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Mile Oak places to visit. A unique way to experience Mile Oak’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Mile Oak as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Mile Oak Walkfo Preview Mile Oak is the northern part of the former parish of Portslade in the northwest corner of the city of Brighton and Hove, England. It is mostly residential, but originally an area of good-quality agricultural land. The first urban development occurred in the 1930s, and growth continued throughout the postwar era. When you visit Mile Oak, Walkfo brings Mile Oak places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Mile Oak Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Mile Oak
Visit Mile Oak – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 50 audio plaques & Mile Oak places for you to explore in the Mile Oak area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Mile Oak places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Mile Oak history
The location of the oak tree to which the name “Mile Oak” refers is not known for certain, but researchers have suggested two sites. Mile Oak, also spelt Mileoak in early documents, was first mentioned on a tithe map of 1840. Two families were recorded as living in Mile Oak in the 1881 census. The main farm in the area was Mile Oak Farm, which covered 294 acres.
Why visit Mile Oak with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Mile Oak places with Walkfo Mile Oak to hear history at Mile Oak’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Mile Oak has 50 places to visit in our interactive Mile Oak 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 Mile Oak, 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 Mile Oak places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Mile Oak & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Mile Oak tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Mile Oak
Best Mile Oak places to visit
Mile Oak has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Mile Oak’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Mile Oak’s information audio spots:
Edburton Castle Ring Edburton Castle Ring (or Castle Rings) is an archaeological site in West Sussex, England. It is a Scheduled Monument on the South Downs, near the villages of EdBurton and Fulking.
St Leonard’s Church, Aldrington St Leonard’s Church is an Anglican church in Hove, in the English city of Brighton and Hove. It is on New Church Road in Aldrington, which was previously a separate village, and it serves as Aldrington’s parish church. The church was on Church Road but now stands on New Road, renamed in reference to the other church, St Philip’s.
St Peter’s Church, West Blatchington St Peter’s Church is an Anglican church in the West Blatchington area of Hove, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. It has 11th- and 12th-century origins but was rebuilt from a ruined state in the late 19th century and extended substantially in the 1960s.
Shoreham F.C. Shoreham Football Club is a football club based in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex. The club are nicknamed “The Musselmen” after the town’s ancient mussel picking tradition. They are currently members of the Southern Combination Division One and their home stadium is Middle Road.
Southwick F.C. Southwick Football Club was founded in 1882 and was among the founding members of the Sussex County League. Their home ground was Old Barn Way and they were nicknamed ‘The Wickers’ The club was wound up in March 2020, having lost the lease to its stadium and due to severe financial difficulties. In July 2020 a phoenix club, Southwick 1882 F.C., was formed by staff and supporters of the defunct team to continue the name and history of the club.
Adur District Adur is a local government district of West Sussex. It is named after its main river and is historically part of the English county of Sussex. The district has a population of 59,627 according to the 2001 census. It was created on 1 April 1974 by the merger of Southwick and Shoreham urban districts.
St Nicolas Church, Portslade St Nicolas Church is an Anglican church in the Portslade area of Brighton and Hove. It has 12th-century origins, and serves the old village of the same name. The church was built in the 12th century and is located in the city centre of Brighton.
St Helen’s Church, Hangleton St Helen’s Church is the oldest surviving building in the English city of Brighton and Hove. It is the ancient parish church of Hangleton, an isolated South Downs village that was abandoned by the Middle Ages. It was open farmland until the Interwar Period when extensive residential development took place.
Hangleton Manor Inn Hangleton Manor Inn, the adjoining Old Manor House and associated buildings form a bar and restaurant complex. The manor house is the oldest secular building in the Hove part of the city. English Heritage has listed the complex at Grade II* for its architectural and historical importance. The brewery company Hall & Woodhouse have owned and operated it since 2005.
Thundersbarrow Hill Thundersbarrow Hill is an archaeological site in West Sussex. It is on a chalk ridge, aligned north-west to south-east, on the South Downs north of Shoreham-by-Sea. There is an Iron Age hillfort; also a bowl barrow and a Bronze Age enclosure.
Visit Mile Oak plaques
8 plaques hereMile Oak has 8 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Mile Oak 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 Mile Oak using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Mile Oak plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Mile Oak audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Mile Oak allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Mile Oak’s 50 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Mile Oak freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Mile Oak Map App
Our visit Mile Oak map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Mile Oak & 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 Mile Oak tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Mile Oak centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Mile Oak area at LONG:-0.233, LAT:50.855.
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Things to do & visit in Mile Oak / surrounding areas
● Edburton ● Edburton Castle Ring ● Aldrington ● Bishop Hannington Memorial Church ● West Blatchington ● St Leonard’s Church, Aldrington ● Hounsom Memorial United Reformed Church, Hove ● West Blatchington Windmill ● St Peter’s Church, West Blatchington ● Capital Brighton ● St Julian’s Church, Kingston Buci ● St Michael and All Angels Church, Southwick ● Southwick, West Sussex ● Admiralty M-N Scheme ● Shoreham Harbour Lifeboat Station ● Kingston by Sea ● Kingston Buci (electoral division) ● Shoreham Redoubt ● Shoreham F.C. ● Shoreham Power Station ● Seaside Hospital Radio ● Southlands Hospital ● Southwick F.C. ● Adur District ● Southwick (electoral division) ● Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Brighton ● Shoreham-by-Sea ● St Mary de Haura Church, Shoreham-by-Sea ● St Nicolas Church, Portslade ● Marlipins Museum
● St Peter’s Church, Shoreham-by-Sea ● Portslade ● Southwick Hill Tunnel ● Mile Oak F.C. ● Mile Oak ● Shoreham (electoral division) ● Foredown Tower ● Hangleton ● St Helen’s Church, Hangleton ● Hangleton Manor Inn ● Benfield Hill ● Thundersbarrow Hill ● Mill Hill, Shoreham ● Beeding Hill to Newtimber Hill ● Fulking ● Devil’s Dyke, Sussex ● Portslade Town Hall ● Horselunges Manor
Getting to / around Mile Oak – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Mile Oak using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Mile Oak places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Mile Oak Public Transport Stations
Mile Oak Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Rowan Halt railway station
Portslade railway station
Southwick railway station
Shoreham-by-Sea railway station
Golf Club Halt railway station (England)
The Dyke railway station
Fishersgate railway station
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Local Mile Oak historians & Mile Oak tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Mile Oak? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Mile Oak’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 Mile Oak 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 Mile Oak 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 Mile Oak 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-Mile Oak’ web pages (for example: www.visitMile Oak.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