Welcome to Visit Thurcaston Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Thurcaston
Visit Thurcaston places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Thurcaston places to visit. A unique way to experience Thurcaston’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Thurcaston as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Thurcaston Walkfo Preview Thurcaston is best known as the home to Bishop Hugh Latimer. It borders the villages of Anstey and Cropston, as well as the Leicester suburb of Beaumont Leys. The Rothley Brook flows through the village, separating it from the A46 Leicester Western Bypass. When you visit Thurcaston, Walkfo brings Thurcaston places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Thurcaston Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Thurcaston
Visit Thurcaston – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 42 audio plaques & Thurcaston places for you to explore in the Thurcaston area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Thurcaston places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Thurcaston with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Thurcaston places with Walkfo Thurcaston to hear history at Thurcaston’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Thurcaston has 42 places to visit in our interactive Thurcaston 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 Thurcaston, 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 Thurcaston places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Thurcaston & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Thurcaston tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Thurcaston
Best Thurcaston places to visit
Thurcaston has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Thurcaston’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Thurcaston’s information audio spots:
St Mary & St John Church, Rothley St Mary & St John is a Church of England parish church in Rothley, England. It has a congregation of mixed ages and backgrounds. It aims “to reach out with the good news of Jesus Christ”
Swithland railway station Swithland was a railway station on the Great Central Main Line between Rothley and Quorn and Woodhouse. The station was due to open in March 1899 but was never completed. The line through the station site was closed in May 1969.
Beaumont Leys Beaumont Leys is a suburb and electoral ward in north-western Leicester. The population of the ward at the 2011 census was 16,480. Locally used in reference to the large housing estate, built within the administrative division.
Beaumont Shopping Centre The 301,099 sq ft (27,973.0 m) shopping centre is owned by British Land and managed by GVA. Beaumont Shopping Centre is in Beaumon Leys, on the edge of Leicester.
St Mary’s Church, Anstey St Mary’s Church is the Church of England parish church in Anstey, Leicestershire, in the Diocese of Leicester.
Thurcaston Thurcaston is best known as the home to Bishop Hugh Latimer. It borders the villages of Anstey and Cropston, as well as the Leicester suburb of Beaumont Leys. The Rothley Brook flows through the village, separating it from the A46 Leicester Western Bypass.
Anstey, Leicestershire Anstey is a large village in Leicestershire, located north west of Leicester in the borough of Charnwood. Its population was 6,528 at the 2011 census. It is a combination of traditional English village (with two village greens) and industrial town.
Birstall, Leicestershire Birstall is a large village and civil parish within the Charnwood borough of Leicestershire. It is three miles north of Leicester city centre and is part of the wider Leicester Urban Area. The population of the village was only marginally lower than the neighbouring town of Syston at the 2001 census.
Birstall United F.C. Birstall United Football Club are currently members of the United Counties League Division One. The club are currently based in Birstall, near Leicester, in Leicestershire, England.
Visit Thurcaston plaques
1 plaques hereThurcaston has 1 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Thurcaston 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 Thurcaston using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Thurcaston plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Thurcaston audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Thurcaston allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Thurcaston’s 42 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Thurcaston freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Thurcaston Map App
Our visit Thurcaston map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Thurcaston & 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 Thurcaston tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Thurcaston centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Thurcaston area at LONG:-1.15, LAT:52.683.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Thurcaston, 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 Thurcaston / surrounding areas
● Cossington Meadows ● River Wreake ● Watermead Country Park ● Birstall Meadows ● Wanlip Meadows ● Wanlip Hall ● Thurmaston ● Wanlip ● Mountsorrel ● Rothley ● St Mary & St John Church, Rothley ● Swithland Sidings ● Rothley Temple ● Rothley Court ● Rothley Brook ● Beaumont Leys ● Goss Meadows ● Beaumont Shopping Centre ● St Patrick’s Catholic Church, Leicester ● The Orchards Nature Reserve ● Glenfield Hospital ● National Space Centre ● Leicester Abbey ● Abbey Pumping Station ● Belgrave, Leicester ● Anstey Nomads F.C. ● Belgrave Hall ● St Mary’s Church, Anstey ● Thurcaston ● Anstey, Leicestershire
● Birstall, Leicestershire ● Rushey Mead ● Birstall United F.C. ● Swithland Hall ● Mountsorrel Cross ● Thurcaston and Cropston ● Cropston ● Cropston Reservoir ● St Peter’s Church, Belgrave ● Church of St James the Great, Birstall
Getting to / around Thurcaston – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Thurcaston using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Thurcaston places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Thurcaston Public Transport Stations
Thurcaston Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Swithland railway station
Rothley railway station
Belgrave and Birstall railway station
Red Hill filling station
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Local Thurcaston historians & Thurcaston tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Thurcaston? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Thurcaston’s places, attractions & landmarks ability to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & using our simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. – Creating a new audio experience for your Thurcaston 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. – The 100 Amazing Thurcaston 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 Thurcaston destinations. – Walkfo itself is looking to partner with websites offering things-to-do / what’s on events listings to enhance the content of our ‘visit-Thurcaston’ web pages (for example: www.visitThurcaston.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. v1.1336