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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in The Werps


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

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The lost village of Werps was one of a group of small settlements which later became collectively known as Jackfield in the Broseley Parish in Shropshire. The Werps lay on the south side of the river Severn, opposite the Old Coalport China Works (now a youth hostel) When you visit The Werps, Walkfo brings The Werps places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

The Werps Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about The Werps


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With 42 audio plaques & The Werps places for you to explore in the The Werps area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best The Werps places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

Why visit The Werps with Walkfo Travel Guide App?


Visit The Werps PlacesYou can visit The Werps places with Walkfo The Werps to hear history at The Werps’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo The Werps has 42 places to visit in our interactive The Werps 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 The Werps, 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 The Werps places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to The Werps & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 42 audio facts unique to The Werps places in an interactive The Werps map you can explore.”

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42 tourist, history, culture & geography spots


 

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Walkfo The Werps tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in The Werps

  

Best The Werps places to visit


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

The Werps photo Coalbrookdale Institute
Coalbrookdale Institute is a former library and scientific institute. Dating from the mid-19th century it is now used as a youth hostel. It is a Grade II* listed building.
The Werps photo St Leonard’s Church, Linley
St Leonard’s Church is in the hamlet of Linley, Shropshire, England. It is a redundant church under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade I listed building.
The Werps photo Sutton Maddock
Sutton Maddock is a village and civil parish 16 miles (26 km) south east of Shrewsbury, in the Shropshire district. The parish includes the hamlet of Brockton. In 2011 the parish had a population of 254.
The Werps photo St Michael’s Church, Madeley
St Michael’s Church, Madeley is one of three places of worship that constitute the Parish of Madeley, a Church of England parish. The parish is part of the Diocese of Hereford.
The Werps photo Blists Hill Victorian Town
Blists Hill Victorian Town is an open-air museum built on a former industrial complex in Telford, Shropshire. The museum attempts to recreate the sights, sounds and smells of a Victorian town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Originally the museum was an industrial region consisting of a brick and tile works, blast furnaces and coal, iron and fire clay mines.
The Werps photo Ironbridge and Broseley railway station
Ironbridge and Broseley railway station was a railway station with two through platforms on the Severn Valley Railway Line in Shropshire. It was demolished in 1966 to provide car parking space within Severn Gorge. Virtually all traces of station platforms, station building and goods shed have been swept away.
The Werps photo Broseley
The first iron bridge in the world was built in 1779 across the Severn, linking Broseley with Coalbrookdale and Madeley. This contributed to the early industrial development in the Ironbridge Gorge, which is now part of a World Heritage Site.
The Werps photo Preens Eddy
Preens Eddy is a settlement on the south bank of the River Severn, opposite Coalport. Its history lies at the heart of the industrial revolution.
The Werps photo Coalport East railway station
Coalport East was a London and North Western Railway station at Coalport, situated on the north bank of the River Severn. It formed the terminus of the Coalport Branch Line which ran from Hadley Junction to Shrewsbury Line.
The Werps photo Coalport Bridge
Coalport Bridge is a cast iron arch bridge between Coalport and Preens Eddy in Shropshire, England. It was built in the 1930s.

Visit The Werps plaques


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The Werps has 25 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo The Werps 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 The Werps using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each The Werps plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.