Welcome to Visit Shap Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Shap
Visit Shap places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Shap places to visit. A unique way to experience Shap’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Shap as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Shap is a linear village and civil parish located among fells and isolated dales in Eden district, Cumbria. The parish had a population of 1,221 in 2001, increasing slightly to 1,264 at the 2011 Census. When you visit Shap, Walkfo brings Shap places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Shap Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Shap
Visit Shap – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 7 audio plaques & Shap places for you to explore in the Shap area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Shap places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Shap history
Shap is legally a market town with a charter dating from the 17th century. The parish was, between 1905 and 1935, administered by an urban district council. At one time the granite works were in itself a separate community, with its own Co-op.
Shap etymology
Early (12th and 13th century) forms such as Hep and Yheppe point to an Old Norse rendering Hjáp of an Old English original Hēap = “heap”, (of stones), probably referring to an ancient stone circle, cairn, or to the Shap Stone Avenue just to the west of the village.
Why visit Shap with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Shap places with Walkfo Shap to hear history at Shap’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Shap has 7 places to visit in our interactive Shap 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 Shap, 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 Shap places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Shap & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 7 audio facts unique to Shap places in an interactive Shap map you can explore.”
Walkfo: Visit Shap Places Map
7 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
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Best Shap places to visit
Shap has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Shap’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Shap’s information audio spots:
Shap Stone Avenue
Shap Stone Avenue (an unofficial name) is a megalithic complex near Shap in Cumbria, England. It comprises stone circles, a two-mile avenue (actually two avenues) of stones, and burial mounds.
Visit Shap plaques
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plaques
here Shap has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Shap 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 Shap using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Shap plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
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