Welcome to Visit Porthloo Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Porthloo
Visit Porthloo places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Porthloo places to visit. A unique way to experience Porthloo’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Porthloo as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Porthloo Walkfo Preview Porthloo (sometimes spelled and often pronounced Porthlow; Cornish: Porth Logh “cove of the deep water inlet”) is a coastal settlement on the island of St Mary’s in the Isles of Scilly, England. It is situated about half a mile northeast of Hugh Town and is a popular tourist spot with a number of guest houses, a restaurant, gift shops and art galleries. When you visit Porthloo, Walkfo brings Porthloo places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Porthloo Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Porthloo
Visit Porthloo – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 46 audio plaques & Porthloo places for you to explore in the Porthloo area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Porthloo places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Porthloo with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Porthloo places with Walkfo Porthloo to hear history at Porthloo’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Porthloo has 46 places to visit in our interactive Porthloo 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 Porthloo, 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 Porthloo places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Porthloo & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 46 audio facts unique to Porthloo places in an interactive Porthloo map you can explore.”
Walkfo Porthloo tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Porthloo
Best Porthloo places to visit
Porthloo has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Porthloo’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Porthloo’s information audio spots:
Tresco Abbey Gardens The 17 acre gardens are located on the island of Tresco in the Isles of Scilly, United Kingdom. The gardens are designated at Grade I in the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
Innisidgen Innisidgen (Cornish: Enys Ojyon, meaning Ox Island) is the site of two Bronze Age entrance graves on the island of St Mary’s in the Isles of Scilly.
Star Castle, Isles of Scilly Star Castle is a fortress on St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly, built in 1593 by Robert Adams, Surveyor of the Royal Works and Captain of the Scilly Isles, during the “Spanish invasion scare”
Samson, Isles of Scilly Samson (Cornish: (Enys) Sampson) is the largest uninhabited island of the Isles of Scilly, off the southwestern tip of the Cornish peninsula of Great Britain. The island consists of two hills, North Hill and South Hill, which are connected by an isthmus.
St Mary’s Church, St Mary’s The Church was consecrated on 7 September 1838. It replaced the church at Old Town which was inconvenient for the Hugh Town population and in need of repair. The church is located in Hugh Town, St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly.
Wesleyan Methodist Church, Hugh Town, Isles of Scilly Wesleyan Methodist Church, Hugh Town, Isles of Scilly, was built in 1790. It is Grade II listed and functions as an office of the Council of the Isles.
St Mary’s Methodist Church, Isles of Scilly St Mary’s Methodist Church, Hugh Town is a Grade II listed Methodist church in the Isles of Scilly. It is located in Hugh Town, on the island of the Scilly Islands.
Lower Moors (St Mary’s) Lower Moors is a wetland between Hugh Town and Old Town Bay on St Mary’s, the largest island in the Isles of Scilly. It is an important feeding station for migrating and wintering birds such as common snipe and water rail.
St Mary’s Old Church, St Mary’s St. Mary’s Old Church, St Mary’s is a parish church in the Church of England. It is located in Old Town on St. Mary’s, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall.
Peninnis Head Peninnis Head (Cornish: Penn Enys, meaning Island Head) is the southernmost point of St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly. Headland is part of the Heritage Coast and a Geological Conservation Review site for its Quaternary geomorphology. It was first designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1971.
Visit Porthloo plaques
0 plaques herePorthloo has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Porthloo 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 Porthloo using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Porthloo plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Porthloo audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Porthloo allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Porthloo’s 46 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Porthloo freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Porthloo Map App
Our visit Porthloo map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Porthloo & 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 Porthloo tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Porthloo centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Porthloo area at LONG:-6.3076, LAT:49.9231.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Porthloo, 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 Porthloo / surrounding areas
● Isles of Scilly ● Oliver’s Battery, Tresco ● Halangy Down transmitter ● Tresco Heliport ● Coastguard’s Lookout Tower ● Tresco Priory ● Telegraph, Isles of Scilly ● Tresco Abbey Gardens ● Porthloo ● Trenoweth, Isles of Scilly ● HMS Colossus (1787) ● Innisidgen ● St Mary’s Lifeboat Station ● Rocky Hill, Isles of Scilly ● Harry’s Walls ● Tregarthen’s Hotel ● St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly ● Star Castle, Isles of Scilly ● Maypole, Isles of Scilly ● Holy Vale ● Samson, Isles of Scilly ● Longstone, Isles of Scilly ● Watermill Cove ● St Mary’s Church, St Mary’s ● Wesleyan Methodist Church, Hugh Town, Isles of Scilly ● Hugh Town ● St Mary’s Methodist Church, Isles of Scilly ● Lower Moors (St Mary’s) ● Buzza Tower ● Garrison Tower
● Pelistry ● Normandy, Isles of Scilly ● Porth Hellick ● St Mary’s Airport, Isles of Scilly ● MV Cita ● Old Town, Isles of Scilly ● St Mary’s Old Church, St Mary’s ● Peninnis Head ● Minnehaha (cargo ship) ● Peninnis Lighthouse ● Wheel Wreck ● Bartholomew Ledges Wreck ● Obadiah’s Barrow ● Giant’s Castle, Isles of Scilly
Getting to / around Porthloo – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Porthloo using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Porthloo places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Porthloo Public Transport Stations
Porthloo Notable Streets & Road Destinations
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Local Porthloo historians & Porthloo tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Porthloo? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Porthloo’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 Porthloo 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 Porthloo 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 Porthloo 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-Porthloo’ web pages (for example: www.visitPorthloo.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 Porthloo places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Porthloo places to visit. A unique way to experience Porthloo’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Porthloo as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Porthloo places with Walkfo Porthloo to hear history at Porthloo’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Porthloo has 46 places to visit in our interactive Porthloo 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 Porthloo, 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 Porthloo places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Porthloo & the surrounding areas.
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