Visit Preston-next-Wingham – things to do & explore
When you visit Preston-next-Wingham 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 Preston-next-Wingham. Millions of audio content spots are available when you travel by foot, bike, bus or car around Preston-next-Wingham through your mobile phone connected to headphones.
Overview of Preston-next-Wingham history & facts by Walkfo
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Preston or Preston-next-Wingham is a civil parish and village in valley of the Little Stour in the Dover District of Kent, England. The village is on the B2076 secondary road. The parish includes the hamlet of Elmstone. The main river through the area is a tributary of the River Stour. The suffix ‘next-Wingham’ distinguishes the area from Preston-next-Faversham and the Domesday Book chronicled Preston as ‘Prestetune; In the 1870s, Preston-next-Wingham was described as:”A village and a parish in Eastry district, Kent. The village stands on a rising-ground, above the marshes of the Little Stour river, 1½mile S E of Grove-Ferry r. station, and 6¾ E N E of Canterbury; bears the name of Preston-street, and has apostal pillar-box under Wingham”.
Preston-next-Wingham history
Archaeological digs date the parish back to the Bronze Age and Iron Age. In the Domesday Book, Preston is recorded as having about 60 households, which was quite a sizeable quantity in relation to the British Isles population at the time. The Manor of Wingham was in the year 836 was given to Christ Church by Athelstan, who was the king of Kent. This manor was made up of the parishes of Ash, Goodnestone, Wingham, and parts of Womenswold and Nonington. In the Domesday book it was recorded as Wingehame. Christ Church lost a few of its holdings during the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy in the 9th and 10th centuries, Restitution was made when King Edmund I unified England and the Church of England. St Mildred was founded in 700 AD, and it still has evidence of stonework from the Saxon age, similarly to the church at Elmstone The St Mildred Church dates back to the early 13th century and was extended a year later. It was also restored in 1857 by a gothic revival architect called William White, where he put in dormer windows to replace the aisle ones. It holds a rare Parochial library which was assembled in 1710, and was furnished with 67 volumes recommended by Thomas Bray. These books were transported in a case of ‘the best seasoned oak’ with sturdy carrying handles. Normally, the cases were left unpainted after arrival, but the Preston case was painted white; nowadays however it looks more grey. It is a grade I listed building and in 1800, Edward Hasted described it as: ‘three isles, a high chancel, and a north chancel, having at the west end a low pointed steeple, in which hang five bells. It is kept exceedingly neat and handsome, and the whole of it ceiled’ The name ‘Preston’ means ‘Farm/settlement of the priests’. This comes from the two old English terms that make up the name; prēost and tūn, which mean priest and farmland/estate respectfully. It was originally known as the name of its main manor house, Coppanstan. In the 9th century, the Archbishop of Canterbury came into possession of the house, which is where the old English name comes from. The area has 44 listed buildings, including a number of cottages, farmhouses and even some garden walls. The area of Preston grew between 1831 and 1961, from 1,670 acres to 2,028 acres over the respected period.
You can visit Preston-next-Wingham, COUNTY/BOROUGH & use Walkfo to discover the best walking places with our free digital tour guide app created especially for Preston-next-Wingham. Walkfo Preston-next-Wingham 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 Preston-next-Wingham, 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 Preston-next-Wingham will keep up.
When you visit Preston-next-Wingham
When you visit Preston-next-Wingham, Walkfo is your digital tour guide while exploring by foot, bike or bus. With numerous walks, hikes, tourist locations & travel destinations available in Preston-next-Wingham, our travel AI guide helps you get the best from your visit to Preston-next-Wingham & the surrounding areas. Our explore Preston-next-Wingham app for iPhone & Android, allows you to experience the hidden history, culture and amazing facts throughout Preston-next-Wingham whilst out walking. The digital tour guide creates interactive audio stories driven by where you walk, so you can exploration Preston-next-Wingham’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 Preston-next-Wingham alone that form an interactive Preston-next-Wingham walking map for you to explore.”
Best Preston-next-Wingham places to visit
Preston-next-Wingham has hundreds of places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are five of Preston-next-Wingham’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 Preston-next-Wingham plaques
Preston-next-Wingham 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 Preston-next-Wingham 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 Preston-next-Wingham 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 Preston-next-Wingham, you will hear the full story of each of these plaques.
Experience Preston-next-Wingham audio walks & tours
Walkfo is a free app that shows you things to do / visit in Preston-next-Wingham 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 Preston-next-Wingham freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Visiting Preston-next-Wingham with Walkfo’s things to do interactive map
The “Preston-next-Wingham things to do map” below is a preview of the places you can visit in Preston-next-Wingham 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 Preston-next-Wingham Map’
This Preston-next-Wingham tourism map shows points of interest within a 4km radius of Preston-next-Wingham 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 Preston-next-Wingham, 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 Preston-next-Wingham and surrounding areas
Getting to / around Preston-next-Wingham – transport links, stations, streets & traffic map
Getting around in Preston-next-Wingham using public transportation may include roads, streets, trains, undergrounds, buses or trams. Walkfo has the following important Preston-next-Wingham public transport locations with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
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Attention local Preston-next-Wingham historians, tour guides & Preston-next-Wingham tourism agents
Looking for a way to get more visitors to Preston-next-Wingham?
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 Preston-next-Wingham 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.visitPreston-next-Wingham.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.