Visit Newbold-on-Avon – things to do & explore
When you visit Newbold-on-Avon 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 Newbold-on-Avon. Millions of audio content spots are available when you travel by foot, bike, bus or car around Newbold-on-Avon through your mobile phone connected to headphones.
Overview of Newbold-on-Avon history & facts by Walkfo
Planning a visit to Newbold-on-Avon?
Newbold-on-Avon (usually shortened to just Newbold) is a suburb of Rugby in Warwickshire, England, located around 1½ miles north-west of the town centre, it is adjacent to the River Avon from which the suffix is derived. Newbold was historically a village in its own right, but was incorporated into Rugby in 1932. The name is derived from the Saxon Niowebold (‘New house’). The ancient parish of Newbold-on-Avon contained the nearby settlements of Harborough Parva, Cosford, Long Lawford and Little Lawford. The latter three became separate civil parishes in the 19th century, while Harborough Parva was transferred to Harborough Magna parish in 1931. The older part of the village of Newbold sits on a hill north of the Avon on the B4112 road, and contains some old buildings, including some red brick 18th-century houses and some timber-framed buildings from the 17th century. The church of St Botolph in the old village dates from the 15th century, and is grade I listed and stands on the site of an earlier church. Newbold grew considerably during the 20th century, with a number of modern housing and industrial estates having been built to the east of the old village at the foot of the hill, around the Avon valley. The Oxford Canal runs immediately to the north of Newbold, here it runs through the 250-metre-long Newbold Tunnel; This tunnel was built in 1829 as part of a scheme to straighten out the winding canal, and it replaced an older tunnel which dated from 1777 on the original route, which ran at a right-angle to the newer tunnel. The southern portal of the abandoned tunnel can be seen next to the churchyard, it is now bricked up but with two holes to allow for bats to enter. There is a canalside pub at Newbold, the Barley Mow (a second one The Boat having now closed). There is also another pub called the Newbold Crown closer to the centre of the village. There are some former limestone quarries in the Newbold area. One of them has been converted into a nature reserve, known as Newbold Quarry Park. Another park named Newbold Centenary Park opened in 2016 off Parkfield Road: built on the site of former allotments, it was so named to mark the centenary of the First World War. The main secondary school in Newbold is the Avon Valley School, which was formerly known as Newbold Grange High School until the early-1990s. Newbold is home to Newbold-on-Avon RFC. Newbold Road Newbold canal tunnel The abandoned tunnel on the old route of the canal Newbold Quarry Park
You can visit Newbold-on-Avon, COUNTY/BOROUGH & use Walkfo to discover the best walking places with our free digital tour guide app created especially for Newbold-on-Avon. Walkfo Newbold-on-Avon 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 Newbold-on-Avon, 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 Newbold-on-Avon will keep up.
When you visit Newbold-on-Avon
When you visit Newbold-on-Avon, Walkfo is your digital tour guide while exploring by foot, bike or bus. With numerous walks, hikes, tourist locations & travel destinations available in Newbold-on-Avon, our travel AI guide helps you get the best from your visit to Newbold-on-Avon & the surrounding areas. Our explore Newbold-on-Avon app for iPhone & Android, allows you to experience the hidden history, culture and amazing facts throughout Newbold-on-Avon whilst out walking. The digital tour guide creates interactive audio stories driven by where you walk, so you can exploration Newbold-on-Avon’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 Newbold-on-Avon alone that form an interactive Newbold-on-Avon walking map for you to explore.”
Best Newbold-on-Avon places to visit
Newbold-on-Avon has hundreds of places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are five of Newbold-on-Avon’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 Newbold-on-Avon plaques
Newbold-on-Avon 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 Newbold-on-Avon 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 Newbold-on-Avon 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 Newbold-on-Avon, you will hear the full story of each of these plaques.
Experience Newbold-on-Avon audio walks & tours
Walkfo is a free app that shows you things to do / visit in Newbold-on-Avon 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 Newbold-on-Avon freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Visiting Newbold-on-Avon with Walkfo’s things to do interactive map
The “Newbold-on-Avon things to do map” below is a preview of the places you can visit in Newbold-on-Avon 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 Newbold-on-Avon Map’
This Newbold-on-Avon tourism map shows points of interest within a 4km radius of Newbold-on-Avon 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 Newbold-on-Avon, 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 Newbold-on-Avon and surrounding areas
Getting to / around Newbold-on-Avon – transport links, stations, streets & traffic map
Getting around in Newbold-on-Avon using public transportation may include roads, streets, trains, undergrounds, buses or trams. Walkfo has the following important Newbold-on-Avon public transport locations with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
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Attention local Newbold-on-Avon historians, tour guides & Newbold-on-Avon tourism agents
Looking for a way to get more visitors to Newbold-on-Avon?
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 Newbold-on-Avon 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.visitNewbold-on-Avon.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.