Visit Stoke-upon-Trent – things to do & explore
When you visit Stoke-upon-Trent 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-upon-Trent. Millions of audio content spots are available when you travel by foot, bike, bus or car around Stoke-upon-Trent through your mobile phone connected to headphones.
Overview of Stoke-upon-Trent history & facts by Walkfo
Planning a visit to Stoke-upon-Trent?
Stoke-upon-Trent, commonly called Stoke is one of the six towns that along with Hanley, Burslem, Fenton, Longton and Tunstall form the city of Stoke-on-Trent, in Staffordshire, England. The town was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1874. In 1910 it became one of the six towns that federated to become the County Borough of Stoke-on-Trent and later the City of Stoke-on-Trent. Since federation in 1910 it has the seat of the city’s council, though Stoke-on-Trent’s city centre is usually regarded as being the nearby town of Hanley which, since federation, has been the most commercially important of the six towns.
You can visit Stoke-upon-Trent, COUNTY/BOROUGH & use Walkfo to discover the best walking places with our free digital tour guide app created especially for Stoke-upon-Trent. Walkfo Stoke-upon-Trent 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-upon-Trent, 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-upon-Trent will keep up.
When you visit Stoke-upon-Trent
When you visit Stoke-upon-Trent, Walkfo is your digital tour guide while exploring by foot, bike or bus. With numerous walks, hikes, tourist locations & travel destinations available in Stoke-upon-Trent, our travel AI guide helps you get the best from your visit to Stoke-upon-Trent & the surrounding areas. Our explore Stoke-upon-Trent app for iPhone & Android, allows you to experience the hidden history, culture and amazing facts throughout Stoke-upon-Trent whilst out walking. The digital tour guide creates interactive audio stories driven by where you walk, so you can exploration Stoke-upon-Trent’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-upon-Trent alone that form an interactive Stoke-upon-Trent walking map for you to explore.”
Best Stoke-upon-Trent places to visit
Stoke-upon-Trent has hundreds of places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are five of Stoke-upon-Trent’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-upon-Trent plaques
Stoke-upon-Trent 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-upon-Trent 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-upon-Trent 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-upon-Trent, you will hear the full story of each of these plaques.
Experience Stoke-upon-Trent audio walks & tours
Walkfo is a free app that shows you things to do / visit in Stoke-upon-Trent 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-upon-Trent freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Visiting Stoke-upon-Trent with Walkfo’s things to do interactive map
The “Stoke-upon-Trent things to do map” below is a preview of the places you can visit in Stoke-upon-Trent 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-upon-Trent Map’
This Stoke-upon-Trent tourism map shows points of interest within a 4km radius of Stoke-upon-Trent 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-upon-Trent, 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.
Apple App Store
Google Play Store
Things to do & visit in Stoke-upon-Trent and surrounding areas
Getting to / around Stoke-upon-Trent – transport links, stations, streets & traffic map
Getting around in Stoke-upon-Trent using public transportation may include roads, streets, trains, undergrounds, buses or trams. Walkfo has the following important Stoke-upon-Trent public transport locations with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
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Attention local Stoke-upon-Trent historians, tour guides & Stoke-upon-Trent tourism agents
Looking for a way to get more visitors to Stoke-upon-Trent?
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-upon-Trent 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-upon-Trent.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.