Visit Stretham Places things-to-do & travel guide

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

Visit Stretham places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Stretham places to visit. A unique way to experience Stretham’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Stretham as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.

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Stretham is 4 miles (6 km) south-south-west of Ely in Cambridgeshire. Main attraction is steam-powered pump used to drain the fens. The pump is still in use today although converted to electric power. When you visit Stretham, Walkfo brings Stretham places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

Stretham Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Stretham

Visit Stretham – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit

With 19 audio plaques & Stretham places for you to explore in the Stretham area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Stretham places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

Stretham history

Stretham means homestead or village on the road (possibly Roman); Latin strata for paved road or old English ystrad for road plus old English ham for village. Bronze Age hoard consisting of gold jewellery including a torque, bracelet, six ribbed-rings as well as a bronze rapier was discovered in Granta Fen near Strethams in 1850.

Stretham geography / climate

Geology

The village is on an east–west running boulder clay (middle-Pleistocene till) ridge. It sits on a belt of mainly Jurassic Kimmerigian clays running south-west from The Wash. The highest point in the village is 53 feet (16 m) above sea-level. Highest point in Cambridgeshire is at Ely, three-mile (6 km) north-north-east.

Boundaries

The River Great Ouse forms the south-west border of the village. The eastern border is formed by the River Cam. The A10 road cuts the village in half running north-east on towards Little Thetford then Ely.

Climate

Cambridgeshire is one of the driest counties in the British Isles. The average annual rainfall of 24 inches (600 mm) makes it driest in the UK.

Why visit Stretham with Walkfo Travel Guide App?

You can visit Stretham places with Walkfo Stretham to hear history at Stretham’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Stretham has 19 places to visit in our interactive Stretham 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 Stretham, 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 Stretham places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Stretham & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 19 audio facts unique to Stretham places in an interactive Stretham map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Stretham Places Map
19 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Stretham historic spots	Stretham tourist destinations	Stretham plaques	Stretham geographic features
Walkfo Stretham tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Stretham

Best Stretham places to visit

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

Visit Stretham plaques

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here Stretham has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Stretham 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 Stretham using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Stretham plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.

Experience Stretham audio walks & tours

Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Stretham allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Stretham’s 19 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Stretham freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.

Explore Stretham Map App

Our visit Stretham map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Stretham & surrounding areas using the Walkfo digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has plaque, building, street or area information on history, culture or tourism.

You can set your Walkfo’s Stretham tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Stretham centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Stretham area at LONG:0.22, LAT:52.35.

Walkfo App

Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Stretham, 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.

Things to do & visit in Stretham / surrounding areas

● RAF Witchford
● River Granta
● Barway
● Upware North Pit
● St James’ Church, Stretham
● Stretham
● Thetford, Cambridgeshire
● Mereham
● Stretham Old Engine
● Cantabrigian Rowing Club
● St George’s Church, Little Thetford
● Huntingdonshire Football Association
● Doghouse Grove
● Wilburton
● Grunty Fen
● North Witchford Rural District
● Upware Bridge Pit North
● River Cam
● Little Thetford

Getting to / around Stretham – transport link, station & street map

Getting around in Stretham using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Stretham places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:

Local Stretham Public Transport Stations		Stretham Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Stretham railway station Wilburton railway station

Local Stretham Public Transport Stations

Stretham Notable Streets & Road Destinations

Stretham railway station
Wilburton railway station

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Local Stretham historians & Stretham tour guides

Visit Strethams audio map and outdoor museum Trying to encourage visitors to Stretham?
Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Stretham’s places, attractions & landmarks ability to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & using our simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator.
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Creating a new audio experience for your Stretham place is free* and quick (15+ minutes if you prepare text content) to use, with Walkfo Creator doing the hard work of generating AI audio files for geo-spots from the text you provide with a simply click on a map.
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The 100 Amazing Stretham Places is just one example of an outdoor museum created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) for people to safely explore during Covid-19 times whilst visiting a city. Our tool is open to tourism organisations, travel destinations & National Trust locations to create their own audio walks to offer free when people visit Stretham destinations.
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Walkfo itself is looking to partner with websites offering things-to-do / what’s on events listings to enhance the content of our ‘visit-Stretham’ web pages (for example: www.visitStretham.com). If you are interested in partnering, 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.
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Visit Stretham Places

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

Stretham Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Stretham

Visit Stretham – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit

Stretham history