Welcome to Visit Ruxley Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Ruxley
Visit Ruxley places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Ruxley places to visit. A unique way to experience Ruxley’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Ruxley as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Ruxley Walkfo Preview When you visit Ruxley, Walkfo brings Ruxley places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Ruxley Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Ruxley
Visit Ruxley – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 52 audio plaques & Ruxley places for you to explore in the Ruxley area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Ruxley places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Ruxley history
Ruxley was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, as a settlement of 20 households, with woodland, pigs and a mill. Malgerius de Rokesle possessed the lands at the time of the 1086. Gregory de Rokeley, a wealthy wool merchant and goldsmith from Rixley, moved to London and later served as the Sheriff of London, Lord Chamberlain and Lord Mayor.
Why visit Ruxley with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Ruxley places with Walkfo Ruxley to hear history at Ruxley’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Ruxley has 52 places to visit in our interactive Ruxley 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 Ruxley, 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 Ruxley places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Ruxley & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 52 audio facts unique to Ruxley places in an interactive Ruxley map you can explore.”
Walkfo Ruxley tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Ruxley
Best Ruxley places to visit
Ruxley has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Ruxley’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Ruxley’s information audio spots:
Foots Cray Place Foots Cray Place was one of the four country houses built in England in the 18th century to a design inspired by Palladio’s Villa Capra near Vicenza . Built in 1754 near Sidcup, Kent, it was demolished in 1950 after a fire in 1949 .
Foots Cray Meadows Foots Cray Meadows is 97 hectares (240 acres) in size within the London Borough of Bexley . It borders the suburbs of Albany Park, Sidcup, North Cray and Ruxley . The River Cray runs through it in a north-easterly direction .
Kemnal Park Cemetery & Memorial Gardens Kemnal Park Cemetery & Memorial Gardens was opened in October 2013 by the Mayor of Bromley, Cllr Ernest Noad . It comprises 55 acres in total and has 30,000 burial plots . The cemetery is also listed as a ‘site of special interest’ due to its ancient woodland and diverse bird life .
Stansfeld F.C. Stansfeld Oxford & Bermondsey Club Football Club is based in Chislehurst, Greater London. They are currently members of the Southern Counties East League Division One.
Eltham Palace F.C. Eltham Palace Football Club was a football club based in Chislehurst, Greater London, England. The club was based at the time of the 1950s and 1960s.
Orpington F.C. First team play at Green Court Sports Club in Crockenhill, London. The club is a semi-professional football club based in Orpington, Greater London.
Visit Ruxley plaques
4 plaques hereRuxley has 4 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Ruxley 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 Ruxley using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Ruxley plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Ruxley audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Ruxley allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Ruxley’s 52 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Ruxley freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Ruxley Map App
Our visit Ruxley map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Ruxley & 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 Ruxley tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Ruxley centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Ruxley area at LONG:0.1364, LAT:51.4131.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Ruxley, 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 Ruxley accommodation map shows places to stay & prices for when you visit Ruxley.
Things to do & visit in Ruxley / surrounding areas
● Foots Cray Place ● Loring Hall ● Foots Cray Meadows ● Blendon, London ● Lamorbey Park ● North Cray ● Bexley ● King’s Head, Bexley ● Albany Park, Bexley ● Sidcup ● Sporting Club Thamesmead F.C. ● Bexley F.C. ● London Borough of Bexley ● Black Prince, Bexley ● Foots Cray ● River Shuttle ● Frognal House ● Joyden’s Wood ● Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup ● Ruxley ● Hundred of Ruxley ● Coldblow ● Ruxley Gravel Pits ● Bexley Hospital ● Bowmans, Kent ● Darul Uloom London ● Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District ● Glebe F.C. ● Foxbury ● Scadbury Park
● Bromley Rural District ● Kemnal Park Cemetery & Memorial Gardens ● Poverest ● Fordcroft Anglo-Saxon cemetery ● Derry Downs ● St Mary Cray ● St Paul’s Cray ● Orpington Urban District ● The Bull, St Paul’s Cray ● Kevington, London ● The Warren, Bromley ● Hockenden ● Stansfeld F.C. ● Eltham Palace F.C. ● Orpington F.C. ● Swanley ● Swanley New Barn Railway ● Hextable ● Crockenhill ● Lamorbey
Getting to / around Ruxley – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Ruxley using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Ruxley places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Ruxley Public Transport Stations
Ruxley Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Albany Park railway station
Sidcup railway station
Bexley railway station
St Mary Cray railway station
Swanley railway station
Roads
The main road that runs through Ruxley is named Maidstone Road, today it is the B2173 road running east to west . To the east, it goes uphill through Upper Ruxleys, Birchwood Corner and changes its name to High Street then London Road . Further west it’s named Main Road and Foots Cray Road and reaches Eltham . It was historically the route of the original A20, the main route from London to Maidstone .
Buses
Four London Bus routes serve Ruxley, three pass through, one terminates there . The 321 bus, which has been running since 1997, has been a 24-hour bus since 2009 . The 492 bus, operated by Arriva London for Transport for London, travels east through Sidcup, Foots Cray, Sidcup and New Eltham . The 51 bus travels from Woolwich, through Plumstead, Welling, Blackfen, and Sidcup .
Local Ruxley historians & Ruxley tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Ruxley? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Ruxley’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 Ruxley 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 Ruxley 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 Ruxley 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-Ruxley’ web pages (for example: www.visitRuxley.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 Ruxley places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Ruxley places to visit. A unique way to experience Ruxley’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Ruxley as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Ruxley places with Walkfo Ruxley to hear history at Ruxley’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Ruxley has 52 places to visit in our interactive Ruxley 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 Ruxley, 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 Ruxley places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Ruxley & the surrounding areas.
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Trying to encourage visitors to Ruxley?