Visit Norton-sub-Hamdon – things to do & explore
When you visit Norton-sub-Hamdon 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 Norton-sub-Hamdon. Millions of audio content spots are available when you travel by foot, bike, bus or car around Norton-sub-Hamdon through your mobile phone connected to headphones.
Overview of Norton-sub-Hamdon history & facts by Walkfo
Planning a visit to Norton-sub-Hamdon?
Norton-sub-Hamdon is a village and civil parish in the South Somerset district of the English county of Somerset, situated five miles west of Yeovil. The village has a population of 743. The village of Chiselborough is 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the south, and the village of Stoke-sub-Hamdon 1 mile (1.6 km) to the north.
Norton-sub-Hamdon history
The majority of the houses and cottages in the village are made from the local stone, hamstone, which is taken from the nearby Ham Hill, from which the village gets its name: Norton sub Hamdon means “north farm below the hill farm”. After the Norman Conquest the manor was granted to Robert, Count of Mortain, who gave it to Grestein Abbey in Normandy, which administered it through Wilmington Priory in Sussex until it was confiscated by the crown in the 14th century. It was then given to the De la Pole family and inherited with the dukedom of Suffolk by the Seymours and in 1671 by the Earl of Aylesbury, before being broken up and sold off. The parish was part of the hundred of Houndsborough.
Norton-sub-Hamdon landmarks
Homefield in Rectory Lane was previously known as Folly’s. It dates from the 17th century and has been designated as a Grade II* listed building. The manor house was built in the 17th century and is now in multiple occupation. The village pub, the Lord Nelson Inn, also has 17th-century origins.
You can visit Norton-sub-Hamdon, COUNTY/BOROUGH & use Walkfo to discover the best walking places with our free digital tour guide app created especially for Norton-sub-Hamdon. Walkfo Norton-sub-Hamdon 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 Norton-sub-Hamdon, 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 Norton-sub-Hamdon will keep up.
When you visit Norton-sub-Hamdon
When you visit Norton-sub-Hamdon, Walkfo is your digital tour guide while exploring by foot, bike or bus. With numerous walks, hikes, tourist locations & travel destinations available in Norton-sub-Hamdon, our travel AI guide helps you get the best from your visit to Norton-sub-Hamdon & the surrounding areas. Our explore Norton-sub-Hamdon app for iPhone & Android, allows you to experience the hidden history, culture and amazing facts throughout Norton-sub-Hamdon whilst out walking. The digital tour guide creates interactive audio stories driven by where you walk, so you can exploration Norton-sub-Hamdon’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 Norton-sub-Hamdon alone that form an interactive Norton-sub-Hamdon walking map for you to explore.”
Best Norton-sub-Hamdon places to visit
Norton-sub-Hamdon has hundreds of places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are five of Norton-sub-Hamdon’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 Norton-sub-Hamdon plaques
Norton-sub-Hamdon 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 Norton-sub-Hamdon 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 Norton-sub-Hamdon 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 Norton-sub-Hamdon, you will hear the full story of each of these plaques.
Experience Norton-sub-Hamdon audio walks & tours
Walkfo is a free app that shows you things to do / visit in Norton-sub-Hamdon 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 Norton-sub-Hamdon freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Visiting Norton-sub-Hamdon with Walkfo’s things to do interactive map
The “Norton-sub-Hamdon things to do map” below is a preview of the places you can visit in Norton-sub-Hamdon 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 Norton-sub-Hamdon Map’
This Norton-sub-Hamdon tourism map shows points of interest within a 4km radius of Norton-sub-Hamdon 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 Norton-sub-Hamdon, 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 Norton-sub-Hamdon and surrounding areas
Getting to / around Norton-sub-Hamdon – transport links, stations, streets & traffic map
Getting around in Norton-sub-Hamdon using public transportation may include roads, streets, trains, undergrounds, buses or trams. Walkfo has the following important Norton-sub-Hamdon public transport locations with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
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Attention local Norton-sub-Hamdon historians, tour guides & Norton-sub-Hamdon tourism agents
Looking for a way to get more visitors to Norton-sub-Hamdon?
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 Norton-sub-Hamdon 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.visitNorton-sub-Hamdon.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.