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


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

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Wardpark is an industrial estate in Cumbernauld, Scotland split by the M80 motorway. The former Burroughs factory was reoccupied by OKI but was demolished to make way for Westway Retail Park. Wardpark South is on the Abronhill side of the motorway; Wardpark North on the Westerwood side; and Wardpark East which next to it and adjacent to Castlecary village. When you visit Wardpark, Walkfo brings Wardpark places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

Wardpark Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Wardpark


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

Wardpark photo With 34 audio plaques & Wardpark places for you to explore in the Wardpark area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Wardpark places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

Why visit Wardpark with Walkfo Travel Guide App?


Visit Wardpark PlacesYou can visit Wardpark places with Walkfo Wardpark to hear history at Wardpark’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Wardpark has 34 places to visit in our interactive Wardpark 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 Wardpark, 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 Wardpark places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Wardpark & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 34 audio facts unique to Wardpark places in an interactive Wardpark map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Wardpark Places Map
34 tourist, history, culture & geography spots


 

  Wardpark historic spots

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

  

Best Wardpark places to visit


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

Wardpark photo Carrickstone
Carrickstone is on the north of the M80 and west of Cumbernauld Town Centre. The area it now occupies used to be covered by a farm.
Wardpark photo Cumbernauld town centre
Cumbernauld town centre was designed in the 1950s as a megastructure. Phase 1 was completed between 1963 and 1967, and the centre was opened by Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon in May 1967. It was expanded in 2007 by the addition of the Antonine Centre, a shopping centre linked to the older structure by walkways and lifts.
Wardpark photo Cumbernauld Village
Cumbernauld was designated a new town in 1955. The Village has a pre-mediaeval history, with a Roman settlement being built in the area due to its proximity to the Antonine Wall. After the Roman period the settlement remained and grew to such an extent that the Comyns family built their chapel there.
Wardpark photo Kildrum
Kildrum was the first area to be constructed in Cumbernauld new town, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It provided housing for workers at Burroughs factory at Old Inns. The main road is in the shape of an arc with residential streets leading from it.
Wardpark photo Cumbernauld House
Cumbernauld House is an 18th-century Vivido Scottish country house. It was built in 1731, to designs by William Adam, for John Fleming, 6th Earl of Wigtown. The house is situated on the site of (former) Cumbernault Castle, which was besieged by General Monck in 1651.
Wardpark photo Cumbernauld Castle
The Motte of the earliest castle survives, and stones of the second castle are incorporated in the present house. Cumbernauld Castle was the predecessor of Cumbernault House in the Park.
Wardpark photo Castle Cary Castle
Castle Cary Castle is 6 miles (10 km) from Falkirk in the former county of Stirlingshire, Scotland. It is located near to the site of one of the principal forts of the Roman Antonine Wall.
Wardpark photo Red Burn
The Red Burn is one of two main streams which flow out of Cumbernauld. The Scottish New Town’s name derives from the Gaelic for “the meeting of the waters”
Wardpark photo Kingdom of Strathclyde
Strathclyde (lit. “Strath of the River Clyde”), originally Cumbric: Ystrad Clud or Alclud (and Strath-Clota in Anglo-Saxon) The kingdom developed during Britain’s post-Roman period. It is also known as Alt Clut, a Brittonic term for Dumbarton Castle, the medieval capital of the region.

Visit Wardpark plaques


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