Welcome to Visit Portinscale Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Portinscale
Visit Portinscale places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Portinscale places to visit. A unique way to experience Portinscale’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Portinscale as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Portinscale Walkfo Preview Portinscale is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from Keswick. The name means “the harlot’s hut”, deriving from Old English “portcwene” and Old Norse “skáli” The village covers approximately 0.15 square miles (0.39 km) At the 2011 census the population was 560. When you visit Portinscale, Walkfo brings Portinscale places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Portinscale Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Portinscale
Visit Portinscale – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 43 audio plaques & Portinscale places for you to explore in the Portinscale area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Portinscale places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Portinscale history
The remains of the workshop of a prehistoric tool-maker were discovered in 1901 by workmen digging out a fish-pond near the village. A later find was a mould dating from about 1400, used to make crucifixes for the use of religious pilgrims. In the seventeenth century the village was a centre of Quakerism, and for preaching without a licence several local Quakers suffered the prescribed penalty, “ye Spoiling of their goods and imprisonment of their bodys”
Why visit Portinscale with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Portinscale places with Walkfo Portinscale to hear history at Portinscale’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Portinscale has 43 places to visit in our interactive Portinscale 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 Portinscale, 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 Portinscale places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Portinscale & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Portinscale tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Portinscale
Best Portinscale places to visit
Portinscale has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Portinscale’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Portinscale’s information audio spots:
Coledale Beck Coledale Beck is a minor river running through Cumbria in England. It is located in the south of the county and runs through the Cumbrian mountains.
Newlands Beck Newlands Beck is a minor river of Cumbria in England. The beck rises on Dale Head and flows northwards through the picturesque Newlands Valley. It flows into Bassenthwaite Lake north east of Thornthwaite.
River Greta, Cumbria River Greta is a tributary of the River Derwent and flows through Keswick. “Greta” derives from the Old Norse “Griótá”, meaning “stony stream” The name is in records dating from the early 13th century. The source of the river is near Threlkeld at the confluence of River Glenderamackin and St. John’s Beck.
St Kentigern’s Church, Crosthwaite There has been a church on the site since the 6th century. It is dedicated to St Kentigern and is the Anglican church of Crosthwaite. The church has an evangelical tradition.
Lingholm Lingholm is a country house just outside Portinscale in Cumbria, England. Lingholm was built in the 1930s and is located in Lingholm.
Castlerigg Manor Castlerigg Manor is a Catholic Residential Youth Centre in Keswick, Cumbria. It is owned and operated by the Catholic Diocese of Lancaster. The purpose of the centre is to run residential retreats and courses for groups of young people.
Fitz Park Fitz Park is a public park in Keswick, Cumbria. Landscaped in the Victorian period, the park contains shrubberies and specimen trees. Keswick Museum and Art Gallery is situated in the park.
The Moot Hall The Moot Hall is a prominent historic building situated at the southern end of Main Street in Keswick, Cumbria, England. It is Grade II* listed.
Greta Hall Greta Hall is a house in Keswick in the Lake District, England. It is best known as the home of the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey.
Derwent Pencil Museum The Derwent Pencil Museum is in Keswick, in the north-west of England. It is located in the town of Keswick and is located on the Derwent Peninsula.
Visit Portinscale plaques
3 plaques herePortinscale has 3 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Portinscale 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 Portinscale using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Portinscale plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Portinscale audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Portinscale allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Portinscale’s 43 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Portinscale freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Portinscale Map App
Our visit Portinscale map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Portinscale & 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 Portinscale tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Portinscale centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Portinscale area at LONG:-3.163204, LAT:54.603022.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Portinscale, 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 Portinscale / surrounding areas
● Braithwaite ● 2010 Keswick coach accident ● Coledale Beck ● Thornthwaite ● Chapel Beck ● Portinscale ● Swinside (Derwent Water) ● Barrow (Lake District) ● Newlands Beck ● River Greta, Cumbria ● St Kentigern’s Church, Crosthwaite ● Stair, Cumbria ● Lingholm ● Castlerigg Manor ● Chestnut Hill, Cumbria ● Keswick Museum ● Cars of the Stars Motor Museum ● Fitz Park ● The Moot Hall ● Briery ● Black Sands ● Greta Hall ● Theatre by the Lake ● Castlerigg ● Derwent Pencil Museum ● Underskiddaw ● Applethwaite ● Great Crosthwaite ● Derwent Island House ● Lord’s Island
Getting to / around Portinscale – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Portinscale using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Portinscale places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Portinscale Public Transport Stations
Portinscale Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Braithwaite railway station
Keswick railway station
Briery Siding Halt railway station
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Local Portinscale historians & Portinscale tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Portinscale? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Portinscale’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 Portinscale 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 Portinscale 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 Portinscale 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-Portinscale’ web pages (for example: www.visitPortinscale.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