Welcome to Visit Old Whittington Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Old Whittington
Visit Old Whittington places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Old Whittington places to visit. A unique way to experience Old Whittington’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Old Whittington as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Old Whittington Walkfo Preview Old Whittington is 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Chesterfield and 10 miles (16 km) south-east of Sheffield. The parish church of St Bartholomew was restored after its destruction by fire in 1895. The town manufactured stoneware bottles, other earthenware and bricks. When you visit Old Whittington, Walkfo brings Old Whittington places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Old Whittington Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Old Whittington
Visit Old Whittington – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 46 audio plaques & Old Whittington places for you to explore in the Old Whittington area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Old Whittington places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Old Whittington with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Old Whittington places with Walkfo Old Whittington to hear history at Old Whittington’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Old Whittington has 46 places to visit in our interactive Old Whittington 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 Old Whittington, 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 Old Whittington places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Old Whittington & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Old Whittington tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Old Whittington
Best Old Whittington places to visit
Old Whittington has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Old Whittington’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Old Whittington’s information audio spots:
Tapton House George Stephenson built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives. In its time Tapton has been a gentleman’s residence, a ladies’ boarding school and a co-educational school. The House is now rented out as offices by Chesterfield Borough Council.
Christ Church, Chesterfield Christ Church, Chesterfield is a parish church in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. It is located in the centre of Chesterfield in the area.
Holy Trinity Church, Chesterfield Holy Trinity Church, Chesterfield is a Grade II listed parish church in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. It is located in the centre of Chesterfield in the north of the county.
Battle of Chesterfield The Battle of Chesterfield was a minor skirmish in the 13th-century England’s Second Barons’ War. The battle was fought in the latter stages of the Second Barons’ war.
Chesterfield Town Hall Chesterfield Town Hall is a municipal building on Rose Hill, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building.
Chesterfield power station Chesterfield power station was owned and operated by Chesterfield Corporation prior to the nationalisation of the British electricity industry in 1948. It was redeveloped as demand for electricity grew and old plant was replaced, and had a generating capacity of 6.9 MW in the 1920s.
Chesterfield Royal Hospital Chesterfield Royal Hospital is an acute general hospital in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. It is managed by the Chesterfield Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
St Thomas’ Church, Brampton St Thomas’ Church, Brampton is a Grade II listed parish church in the Church of England in Brampton, Derbyshire.
Barrow Hill and New Whittington Barrow Hill and New Whittington is one of the nineteen wards that make up the borough of Chesterfield, Derbyshire. The population of the ward was 5,903 at the 2011 Census.
Peak FM (North Derbyshire) Peak FM was a local radio station serving north Derbyshire. It was folded into Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire, as part of a rebrand, on 1 September 2020.
Visit Old Whittington plaques
5 plaques hereOld Whittington has 5 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Old Whittington 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 Old Whittington using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Old Whittington plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Old Whittington audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Old Whittington allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Old Whittington’s 46 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Old Whittington freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Old Whittington Map App
Our visit Old Whittington map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Old Whittington & 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 Old Whittington tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Old Whittington centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Old Whittington area at LONG:-1.43, LAT:53.26.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Old Whittington, 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 Old Whittington / surrounding areas
● Tapton House ● Christ Church, Chesterfield ● Tapton, Derbyshire ● Holy Trinity Church, Chesterfield ● Chesterfield Museum and Art Gallery ● Church of St Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield ● Annunciation Church, Chesterfield ● Battle of Chesterfield ● Chesterfield, Derbyshire ● Municipal Borough of Chesterfield ● Chesterfield Town Hall ● Technique Stadium ● Horns Bridge ● Boythorpe Viaduct ● River Hipper ● Queen’s Park, Chesterfield ● Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust ● Whittington Moor ● Chesterfield Royal Hospital ● Old Whittington ● Boythorpe ● Newbold, Derbyshire ● Brimington ● St Thomas’ Church, Brampton ● Inkersall ● Hollingwood ● Barrow Hill, Derbyshire ● Harry Needle Railroad Company ● Barrow Hill Engine Shed ● Barrow Hill and New Whittington
● Peak FM (North Derbyshire) ● Broomhouse Tunnel ● River Drone ● New Whittington ● New Brampton ● Brampton, Derbyshire ● Ashgate, Derbyshire ● Barlow, Derbyshire ● Unstone ● Hundall ● Chesterfield Borough ● Chesterfield Canal ● Saltergate ● Edwin Swale
Getting to / around Old Whittington – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Old Whittington using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Old Whittington places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Old Whittington Public Transport Stations
Old Whittington Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Chesterfield railway station
Chesterfield Central railway station
Chesterfield Market Place railway station
Chesterfield power station
Sheepbridge and Brimington railway station
Sheepbridge railway station
Unstone railway station
Staveley Works railway station
Barrow Hill railway station
Whittington railway station
Chesterfield transmitting station
A632 road
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Local Old Whittington historians & Old Whittington tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Old Whittington? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Old Whittington’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 Old Whittington 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 Old Whittington 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 Old Whittington 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-Old Whittington’ web pages (for example: www.visitOld Whittington.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