Welcome to Visit Ratho Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Ratho
Visit Ratho places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Ratho places to visit. A unique way to experience Ratho’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Ratho as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Ratho Walkfo Preview Ratho (Scottish Gaelic: Ràthach) is a village in the Rural West Edinburgh area of Edinburgh, Scotland. Its population at the 2011 census was 1,634 based on the 2010 definition of the locality. It was formerly in the old county of Midlothian. When you visit Ratho, Walkfo brings Ratho places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Ratho Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Ratho
Visit Ratho – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 32 audio plaques & Ratho places for you to explore in the Ratho area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Ratho places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Ratho with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Ratho places with Walkfo Ratho to hear history at Ratho’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Ratho has 32 places to visit in our interactive Ratho 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 Ratho, 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 Ratho places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Ratho & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 32 audio facts unique to Ratho places in an interactive Ratho map you can explore.”
Walkfo Ratho tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Ratho
Best Ratho places to visit
Ratho has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Ratho’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Ratho’s information audio spots:
Ratho Ratho (Scottish Gaelic: Ràthach) is a village in the Rural West Edinburgh area of Edinburgh, Scotland. Its population at the 2011 census was 1,634 based on the 2010 definition of the locality. It was formerly in the old county of Midlothian.
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Visit Ratho plaques
4 plaques hereRatho has 4 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Ratho 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 Ratho using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Ratho plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Ratho audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Ratho allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Ratho’s 32 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Ratho freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Ratho Map App
Our visit Ratho map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Ratho & 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 Ratho tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Ratho centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Ratho area at LONG:-3.379, LAT:55.922.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Ratho, 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.
Our Ratho accommodation map shows places to stay & prices for when you visit Ratho.
Things to do & visit in Ratho / surrounding areas
● Dalmahoy ● 1992 Solheim Cup ● Riccarton, Edinburgh ● European Energy Centre ● European Centre of Technology ● Renewable Energy Institute ● Newbridge, Edinburgh ● Newbridge Inn ● Newbridge chariot ● Newliston ● Ratho Station ● Bonnington Aqueduct ● Ratho rail crash ● Ingliston Racing Circuit ● Edinburgh International Climbing Arena ● Royal Highland Centre ● Ingliston ● Edinburgh Airport ● Almond Aqueduct ● Carlowrie Castle ● Haltoun House ● Burnwynd ● Wilkieston ● Linburn Centre ● Bonnington House ● Jupiter Artland ● Edinburgh Airport Rail Link ● Cat Stane ● Royal Highland Show ● SASA (Scottish Government)
Getting to / around Ratho – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Ratho using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Ratho places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Ratho Public Transport Stations
Ratho Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Ravelrig Junction Platform railway station
Gogar railway station, NBR
Ratho railway station
Kirkliston railway station
Turnhouse railway station
First Scotland East
20 Ratho – Ratho Station – Gyle Centre – Edinburgh Park – Hermiston Gait. Edinburgh Park is located on the outskirts of Chesser. Westside Plaza – Chesser is located in Chesser Park.
E&M Horsburgh
40/X40 St John’s Hospital – Livingston – Mid Calder – East Calder – Ratho – Gogar – City Bypass – Gilmerton – Royal Infirmary.
Local Ratho historians & Ratho tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Ratho? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Ratho’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 Ratho 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 Ratho 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 Ratho 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-Ratho’ web pages (for example: www.visitRatho.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