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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Sopley
Visit Sopley places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Sopley places to visit. A unique way to experience Sopley’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Sopley as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Sopley is a village and civil parish situated in the New Forest National Park of Hampshire. It lies on the old main road from Christchurch to Ringwood, on the east bank of the River Avon. It is also home to Moorlands College, one of the largest evangelical theological seminaries in the country. When you visit Sopley, Walkfo brings Sopley places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Sopley Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Sopley
Visit Sopley – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 17 audio plaques & Sopley places for you to explore in the Sopley area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Sopley places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Sopley history
There has been settlement in the area since the Bronze Age and it has existed as a manor since before the Norman conquest. Near to the village, bordering Ripley was the Ground Controlled Interception (GCI) radar station. RAF Sopley was a Royal Air Force base near the village built in the early fifties as a domestic camp.
Sopley geography / climate
The Parish of Sopley is in the far southwest corner of Hampshire on the border of Dorset. It is mainly rural with fewer than 300 dwellings and narrow lanes. The River Avon and the Parish of Burton run along its western edge and it extends eastwards into the New Forest as far as Thorny Hill.
Why visit Sopley with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Sopley places with Walkfo Sopley to hear history at Sopley’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Sopley has 17 places to visit in our interactive Sopley 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 Sopley, 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 Sopley places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Sopley & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo: Visit Sopley Places Map
17 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
Sopley historic spots | Sopley tourist destinations | Sopley plaques | Sopley geographic features |
Walkfo Sopley tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Sopley |
Best Sopley places to visit
Sopley has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Sopley’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Sopley’s information audio spots:
Purewell
Purewell is an area of Christchurch, Dorset . Purewell was originally Purewell in the area of Dorset, but is now Purewell, and is located in Christchurch .
Winkton, Dorset
Winkton is part of the civil parish of Burton and Winkton, in the district of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. The former airfield RAF Winkton was constructed nearby.
Visit Sopley plaques
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plaques
here Sopley has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Sopley 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 Sopley using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Sopley plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.