Visit Strand-on-the-Green – things to do & explore
When you visit Strand-on-the-Green 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 Strand-on-the-Green. Millions of audio content spots are available when you travel by foot, bike, bus or car around Strand-on-the-Green through your mobile phone connected to headphones.
Overview of Strand-on-the-Green history & facts by Walkfo
Planning a visit to Strand-on-the-Green?
Strand-on-the-Green history
Early origins
Strand-on-the-Green was first named “Stronde” in 1353 (probably meaning “shore”) at which time it was a fishing village . Over 100 human skulls, now lost, were found in the river at Strand on the Green during the 19th century .
Modern era
Strand-on-the-Green was one of modern Chiswick’s four villages . The area grew in popularity when in 1759 Kew Bridge opened . The presence of the royal family at Kew Palace further helped to make the area fashionable .
In film
The 1938 television version of The Constant Nymph is partly set on Strand-on-the-Green, backed by a still image of the river . A 1940 Pathé film documented the riverside pubs, Georgian houses and river traffic .
You can visit Strand-on-the-Green, COUNTY/BOROUGH & use Walkfo to discover the best walking places with our free digital tour guide app created especially for Strand-on-the-Green. Walkfo Strand-on-the-Green 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 Strand-on-the-Green, 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 Strand-on-the-Green will keep up.
When you visit Strand-on-the-Green
When you visit Strand-on-the-Green, Walkfo is your digital tour guide while exploring by foot, bike or bus. With numerous walks, hikes, tourist locations & travel destinations available in Strand-on-the-Green, our travel AI guide helps you get the best from your visit to Strand-on-the-Green & the surrounding areas. Our explore Strand-on-the-Green app for iPhone & Android, allows you to experience the hidden history, culture and amazing facts throughout Strand-on-the-Green whilst out walking. The digital tour guide creates interactive audio stories driven by where you walk, so you can exploration Strand-on-the-Green’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 Strand-on-the-Green alone that form an interactive Strand-on-the-Green walking map for you to explore.”
Best Strand-on-the-Green places to visit
Strand-on-the-Green has hundreds of places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are five of Strand-on-the-Green’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 Strand-on-the-Green plaques
Strand-on-the-Green 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 Strand-on-the-Green 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 Strand-on-the-Green 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 Strand-on-the-Green, you will hear the full story of each of these plaques.
Experience Strand-on-the-Green audio walks & tours
Walkfo is a free app that shows you things to do / visit in Strand-on-the-Green 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 Strand-on-the-Green freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Visiting Strand-on-the-Green with Walkfo’s things to do interactive map
The “Strand-on-the-Green things to do map” below is a preview of the places you can visit in Strand-on-the-Green 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 Strand-on-the-Green Map’
This Strand-on-the-Green tourism map shows points of interest within a 4km radius of Strand-on-the-Green 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 Strand-on-the-Green, 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 Strand-on-the-Green and surrounding areas
Getting to / around Strand-on-the-Green – transport links, stations, streets & traffic map
Getting around in Strand-on-the-Green using public transportation may include roads, streets, trains, undergrounds, buses or trams. Walkfo has the following important Strand-on-the-Green public transport locations with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
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Attention local Strand-on-the-Green historians, tour guides & Strand-on-the-Green tourism agents
Looking for a way to get more visitors to Strand-on-the-Green?
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 Strand-on-the-Green 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.visitStrand-on-the-Green.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.