Visit Stoke-sub-Hamdon – things to do & explore
When you visit Stoke-sub-Hamdon on a day-trip, weekend away or holiday, Walkfo is the digital tour guide to the hidden history & cultural facts that you can explore in Stoke-sub-Hamdon. Millions of audio content spots are available when you travel by foot, bike, bus or car around Stoke-sub-Hamdon through your mobile phone connected to headphones.
Overview of Stoke-sub-Hamdon history & facts by Walkfo
Planning a visit to Stoke-sub-Hamdon?
Stoke-sub-Hamdon (or Stoke sub Hamdon), also known as Stoke under Ham, is a large village and civil parish in the South Somerset district of Somerset, England. It is situated 5 miles (8 km) west of Yeovil, with which it is linked by the A3088 road. The parish is located near the River Parrett, and includes the village of East Stoke.
Stoke-sub-Hamdon history
The village stretches around Ham Hill which is a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), Iron Age hill fort, Roman site, and country park. The hill has given its name to the distinctive quarried hamstone which is quarried from a ridge of sandy limestone rock that is elevated above the lower lying clay vales and nearby Somerset Levels. It is of particular importance to geologists because of the assemblages of fossils which it contains, the sedimentary features which it displays and the way it relates to other rocks of equivalent age in the close vicinity. The Bronze Age and Iron Age hill fort was occupied by the Durotriges tribe. A Roman milestone was found at Venn Bridge in 1930: apparently it was made as an element in a colonnade and afterwards converted to a milestone inscribed with the name of the emperor Flavius Severus who ruled in 305-306 AD. In the 10th century the estate passed to Glastonbury Abbey, but after the Norman Conquest was held by Robert, Count of Mortain and granted to Robert FitzIvo. It then passed down through the Beauchamps of Hatch, becoming known as Stoke Beauchamp. It was acquired by the Duchy of Cornwall in 1443 and is still held by the Duchy. The parish of Stoke was part of Tintinhull Hundred. The village is the site of the 14th century Stoke sub Hamdon Priory which is a former priest’s house of the chantry chapel of St Nicholas, which was destroyed after the dissolution of the monasteries. The priory has been owned by the National Trust since 1946, and designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building.
You can visit Stoke-sub-Hamdon, COUNTY/BOROUGH & use Walkfo to discover the best walking places with our free digital tour guide app created especially for Stoke-sub-Hamdon. Walkfo Stoke-sub-Hamdon has 300 locations with history, culture & travel facts, that you can explore the same way you can a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Stoke-sub-Hamdon, being in the moment, without digital distraction and no limitations to a specific walking route – you choose where you want to go, when you want to go and Walkfo Stoke-sub-Hamdon will keep up.
When you visit Stoke-sub-Hamdon
When you visit Stoke-sub-Hamdon, Walkfo is your digital tour guide while exploring by foot, bike or bus. With numerous walks, hikes, tourist locations & travel destinations available in Stoke-sub-Hamdon, our travel AI guide helps you get the best from your visit to Stoke-sub-Hamdon & the surrounding areas. Our explore Stoke-sub-Hamdon app for iPhone & Android, allows you to experience the hidden history, culture and amazing facts throughout Stoke-sub-Hamdon whilst out walking. The digital tour guide creates interactive audio stories driven by where you walk, so you can exploration Stoke-sub-Hamdon’s National Heritage sites, tourist attractions, historic locations or city streets freely, without the restrictions of a predefined walk & walk map.
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 0 audio facts in Stoke-sub-Hamdon alone that form an interactive Stoke-sub-Hamdon walking map for you to explore.”
Best Stoke-sub-Hamdon places to visit
Stoke-sub-Hamdon has hundreds of places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are five of Stoke-sub-Hamdon’s best destinations to visit when exploring the area. We have condensed the information with much more detail available within Walkfo when you visit the destinations.
bVisit Stoke-sub-Hamdon plaques
Stoke-sub-Hamdon has 0 plaques as part of nation or local tourist plaque schemes for you to explore when you visit. Plaque schemes such as National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide a visual geo marker to highlight points of interest things, at the places where they happened. Walkfo has researched each plaque to provide additional content when you visit the Stoke-sub-Hamdon plaques whilst using the app. Experience the hidden history & stories behind each location as the Walkfo local tourist guide app uses GPS to trigger audio close to each Stoke-sub-Hamdon plaque. Walkfo also offers millions of additional ‘virtual geo plaques’ that are unique to Walkfo, created across the UK (and the world).
When using Walkfo to explore Stoke-sub-Hamdon, you will hear the full story of each of these plaques.
Experience Stoke-sub-Hamdon audio walks & tours
Walkfo is a free app that shows you things to do / visit in Stoke-sub-Hamdon on a map. You can explore the area as you wish, as you would do an art gallery or museum, and when you walk close to those locations, our digital tour guide will tell you history, culture & travel facts about the location in audio form. With headphone connected, you can explore Stoke-sub-Hamdon freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Visiting Stoke-sub-Hamdon with Walkfo’s things to do interactive map
The “Stoke-sub-Hamdon things to do map” below is a preview of the places you can visit in Stoke-sub-Hamdon and surrounding areas with our digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has content for a plaque, a building, a street or general area, providing history, culture or tourism information the you can explore.
| Interactive ‘Explore Stoke-sub-Hamdon Map’
This Stoke-sub-Hamdon tourism map shows points of interest within a 4km radius of Stoke-sub-Hamdon centre | Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Stoke-sub-Hamdon, 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.
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Things to do & visit in Stoke-sub-Hamdon and surrounding areas
Getting to / around Stoke-sub-Hamdon – transport links, stations, streets & traffic map
Getting around in Stoke-sub-Hamdon using public transportation may include roads, streets, trains, undergrounds, buses or trams. Walkfo has the following important Stoke-sub-Hamdon public transport locations with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
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Attention local Stoke-sub-Hamdon historians, tour guides & Stoke-sub-Hamdon tourism agents
Looking for a way to get more visitors to Stoke-sub-Hamdon?
Whilst Walkfo has millions audio spots already available, Walkfo Creator allows tourist destinations, attractions & landmarks to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & walks using the simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. Creating an audio walk for you destination is free* and can be created in under 15 minutes if you have content ready, with Walkfo Creator doing all the hard work generating audio files for geo spot you simply click on a map.
The 100 Amazing Stoke-sub-Hamdon Places outdoor museum was created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) as a way for people to safely explore the area during Covid-19 times whilst improving the experience of visiting a city when tourism boards use Walkfo to market their destination.
Walkfo is currently looking to partner with websites who offer things-to-do / what’s on events listings to add to our content on our webpages (for example: www.visitStoke-sub-Hamdon.com). If you are interested in being a content provider, 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.