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Welcome to Visit Shotley Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Shotley

  

Shotley Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Shotley

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You can visit Shotley places with Walkfo Shotley to hear history at Shotley’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Shotley has 26 places to visit in our interactive Shotley 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 Shotley, 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 Shotley places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Shotley & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 26 audio facts unique to Shotley places in an interactive Shotley map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Shotley Places Map
26 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo Shotley tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Shotley

  

Best Shotley places to visit

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Shotley has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Shotley’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Shotley’s information audio spots:

Three Cups, Harwich The Three Cups was a historic public house and hotel which played a prominent role in Harwich until it was converted to a private house in 1995. The current building was built around 1500, but there are more speculative claims that a public house existed on the site before this.

Electric Palace Cinema, Harwich The Electric Palace cinema, Harwich, is one of the oldest purpose-built cinemas to survive. It was designed by the architect Harold Ridley Hooper of Ipswich, Suffolk and opened on 29 November 1911. The cinema closed in 1956 after being damaged in the 1953 East Coast floods, but re-opened in 1981. It is now a community cinema and hosts jazz and folk concerts.

HMS Ganges (shore establishment) HMS Ganges was established as a boys’ training establishment in 1865. She was based in Falmouth, Harwich and Shotley. She remained in service at RNTE Shotley until October 1976.

RNTE Shotley Royal Naval Training Establishment Shotley, known in the Royal Navy as HMS Ganges, was a naval training establishment at Shotley in Suffolk. Starting in 1905, it trained boys for naval service until 1973 (The school-leaving age was raised to 16 so ended the recruitment of 15-year-old boy sailors). In September 1973, HMS. Ganges admitted adult entrants to the. Royal Navy who only underwent 6 weeks training (6-week wonders)

Shotley Battery Shotley Battery was built in 1865 on the Shotley Peninsula to guard the port of Felixstowe. It was built within HMS Ganges Naval Training school, on the same site as existing Martello Tower.

Harwich International Port Harwich International Port is a North Sea seaport in Essex, England, and one of the Haven ports. It lies on the south bank of the River Stour one mile upstream from Harwich, opposite the Port of Felixstowe.

HMS Badger (shore establishment) HMS Badger was a shore establishment of the Royal Navy on the east coast of the United Kingdom. She was commissioned on 13 September 1939 was the flagship of the headquarters of the Flag Officer in Charge, Harwich. The bunker lies under Hamilton House, now Harwich International Port, a few miles west of Harwich.

River Orwell The River Orwell flows through the county of Suffolk in England. Above Ipswich, the river is known as the River Gipping, but its name changes to the Orwell at Stoke Bridge. It broadens into an estuary at Ipswich where the Ipswich dock has operated since the 7th century. It flows into the North Sea at Felixstowe, the UK’s largest container port.

Parkeston, Essex Parkeston is situated on the south bank of the River Stour about one mile (1.6 km) up-river from Harwich. In 2018 it had an estimated population of 932.

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