Welcome to Visit New Houghton Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in New Houghton
Visit New Houghton places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best New Houghton places to visit. A unique way to experience New Houghton’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore New Houghton as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting New Houghton Walkfo Preview New Houghton is a former mining village in the Bolsover District of Derbyshire. It is 3 miles (4.8 km) from Mansfield and is located 3 miles from both Bolsovers and Mansfield. When you visit New Houghton, Walkfo brings New Houghton places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
New Houghton Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about New Houghton
Visit New Houghton – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 21 audio plaques & New Houghton places for you to explore in the New Houghton area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best New Houghton places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
New Houghton history
New Houghton was originally built in the 1890s to house workers from Pleasley Pit which was worked from 1874 until its closure in 1983. The remaining workable coal reserves were linked with and extracted via nearby Shirebrook Colliery.
Why visit New Houghton with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit New Houghton places with Walkfo New Houghton to hear history at New Houghton’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo New Houghton has 21 places to visit in our interactive New Houghton 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 New Houghton, 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 New Houghton places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to New Houghton & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo New Houghton tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in New Houghton
Best New Houghton places to visit
New Houghton has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied New Houghton’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo New Houghton’s information audio spots:
Teversal Manor Teversal Manor is a small Grade II listed 17th-century country house. It is built in two storeys with attics with an irregular 7 bay frontage. The building is constructed of coursed and dressed rubble stone.
St Katherine’s Church, Teversal The St Katherine’s Church is on Buttery Lane, Teversal, Nottinghamshire, England. It is an active Church of England parish church in the deanery of Newstead, the Archdeaconry of Newark, and the Southwell and Nottingham diocese. The church was built in the 12th and 13th centuries and has an unrestored 17th and 18th century interior.
Sherwood Colliery F.C. Sherwood Colliery F.C. is a football club based in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire. They are currently members of the Northern Counties East League Premier Division. The club’s nickname is The Wood.
Holy Trinity Church, Shirebrook Holy Trinity Church is a Grade II listed parish church in Shirebrook, Derbyshire. It was built in the 1930s and is now a Grade I listed parish.
Church of St Chad, Pleasley Vale The Church of St Chad (also known as St Chad’s) is on Church Lane, Pleasley Vale, Nottinghamshire. It is an active Church of England parish church in the deanery of Mansfield, the Archdeaconry of Newark, and the Southwell and Nottingham diocese. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
Shirebrook Shirebrook is a town in the Bolsover district in Derbyshire. It had a population of 13,300 in 2001, reducing to 9,760 at the 2011 Census. It is close to the boundaries with the districts of Mansfield and Bassetlaw of Nottinghamshire.
St Leonard’s Church, Scarcliffe St Leonard’s Church, Scarcliffe is a Grade II* listed parish church in Scarcliffe, Derbyshire. It was built in the 1930s and is located in the area of Scarcliffe.
Hardwick Hall Built between 1590 and 1597 for Bess of Hardwick, it was designed by Robert Smythson. It is one of the earliest examples of the English interpretation of the Renaissance style. Ownership of the house was transferred to the Treasury in 1956 and then to the National Trust in 1959.
Pleasley Colliery Pleasley Colliery is located to the NW of Pleasley village which sits above the north bank of the River Meden on the Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire border. The colliery is situated at about 500 ft (152m) above sea level and is aligned on a NE-SW axis following the trend of the river valley at this point.
St John the Baptist’s Church, Ault Hucknall St John the Baptist’s Church, Ault Hucknall is a Grade I listed parish church in Derbyshire. It was built in the 1930s and is now a Grade II listed parish.
Visit New Houghton plaques
0 plaques hereNew Houghton has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo New Houghton 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 New Houghton using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each New Houghton plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience New Houghton audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in New Houghton allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of New Houghton’s 21 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore New Houghton freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore New Houghton Map App
Our visit New Houghton map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in New Houghton & 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 New Houghton tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the New Houghton centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit New Houghton area at LONG:-1.253, LAT:53.182.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore New Houghton, 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 New Houghton / surrounding areas
● Teversal Manor ● Teversal ● St Katherine’s Church, Teversal ● Sherwood Colliery F.C. ● Holy Trinity Church, Shirebrook ● Church of St Chad, Pleasley Vale ● Shirebrook ● St Leonard’s Church, Scarcliffe ● Bolsover Tunnel ● Stony Houghton ● New Houghton ● Pleasley ● Hardwick Hall ● Pleasley Colliery ● Glapwell ● Doe Lea ● Rowthorn Tunnel ● Bramley Vale ● St John the Baptist’s Church, Ault Hucknall ● Ault Hucknall ● Scarcliffe
Getting to / around New Houghton – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in New Houghton using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following New Houghton places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local New Houghton Public Transport Stations
New Houghton Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Shirebrook South railway station
Scarcliffe railway station
Sutton-in-Ashfield Town railway station
Pleasley East railway station
Skegby railway station
Pleasley West railway station
Rowthorn and Hardwick railway station
Glapwell railway station
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Local New Houghton historians & New Houghton tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to New Houghton? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives New Houghton’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 New Houghton 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 New Houghton 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 New Houghton 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-New Houghton’ web pages (for example: www.visitNew Houghton.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 New Houghton places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best New Houghton places to visit. A unique way to experience New Houghton’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore New Houghton as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit New Houghton places with Walkfo New Houghton to hear history at New Houghton’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo New Houghton has 21 places to visit in our interactive New Houghton 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 New Houghton, 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 New Houghton places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to New Houghton & the surrounding areas.
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