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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Urchfont
Visit Urchfont places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Urchfont places to visit. A unique way to experience Urchfont’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Urchfont as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Urchfont is a rural village and civil parish in the southwest of the Vale of Pewsey and north of Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. The population of the parish at the 2011 census was 1,075. When you visit Urchfont, Walkfo brings Urchfont places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Urchfont Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Urchfont
Visit Urchfont – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 9 audio plaques & Urchfont places for you to explore in the Urchfont area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Urchfont places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Urchfont history
Domesday Book in 1086 recorded a large settlement of 82 households at Lerchesfonte, with three mills, and land held by St Mary’s Abbey, Winchester. The land continued in the ownership of the abbey until the Dissolution in the 1530s. The parish had three tithings, each stretching from north to south: Eastcott (in the west), Urchfont (central) and Wedhampton (east) Stert, to the north, was anciently linked to the village for church purposes but had been made a separate civil parish by the time of the 1881 census.
Origin of the name
The name of Urchfont is often thought to derive from the phrase “Church Fountain” and is possibly derived from Latin fons meaning ‘spring, fountain, well’ or the first element may be a lost personal name such as Eohric. Over 100 variations of the spelling are recorded.
Why visit Urchfont with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Urchfont places with Walkfo Urchfont to hear history at Urchfont’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Urchfont has 9 places to visit in our interactive Urchfont 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 Urchfont, 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 Urchfont places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Urchfont & the surrounding areas.
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9 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
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Best Urchfont places to visit
Urchfont has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Urchfont’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Urchfont’s information audio spots:
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here Urchfont has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Urchfont 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 Urchfont using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Urchfont plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
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