Welcome to Visit Welshpool Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Welshpool
Visit Welshpool places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Welshpool places to visit. A unique way to experience Welshpool’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Welshpool as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Welshpool (Welsh: Y Trallwng) is a market town and community in Wales, historically in Montgomeryshire, but currently administered as part of the unitary authority of Powys. The community had a population of 6,664 (United Kingdom Census 2011), with the town having 5,948. When you visit Welshpool, Walkfo brings Welshpool places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Welshpool Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Welshpool
Visit Welshpool – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 15 audio plaques & Welshpool places for you to explore in the Welshpool area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Welshpool places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Welshpool history
Welshpool served briefly as the capital of Powys Wenwynwyn after its prince was forced to flee the traditional Welsh royal site at Mathrafal in 1212, by the prince of Gwynedd. The Long Mountain once served as the ultimate grounds for defence for fortresses in the times when the town was just a swampy marsh.
Why visit Welshpool with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Welshpool places with Walkfo Welshpool to hear history at Welshpool’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Welshpool has 15 places to visit in our interactive Welshpool 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 Welshpool, 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 Welshpool places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Welshpool & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo: Visit Welshpool Places Map
15 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
Welshpool historic spots | Welshpool tourist destinations | Welshpool plaques | Welshpool geographic features |
Walkfo Welshpool tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Welshpool |
Best Welshpool places to visit
Welshpool has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Welshpool’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Welshpool’s information audio spots:
Christ Church, Welshpool Christ Church, Welshpool was commissioned by the Earl of Powis to commemorate his son, Edward James, the Viscount Clive, having come of age. It was designed by Thomas Penson and completed 1839–44. The church consists of a 7-bay nave with offset west tower, aisles, apse and south porch. |
Victoria Memorial Hospital Victoria Memorial Hospital (Welsh: Ysbyty Coffa Victoria) is a health facility in Welshpool, Powys, Wales. It is managed by the Powys Teaching Health Board. |
Guilsfield Guilsfield (Welsh: Cegidfa, lit. “Hemlock-field”) is a village and local government community in Montgomeryshire, Powys, Wales. The community has an area of 30.01 km (11.59 sq mi) and had a population of 1,640 in 2001. |
Buttington Oak Oak said to have been planted to mark the site of the Battle of Buttington in 893. It had been cyclically pollarded for timber until around 150 years ago. Oak tree was rediscovered in 2009 and badly damaged by storms in 2017. |
Visit Welshpool plaques
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here Welshpool has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Welshpool 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 Welshpool using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Welshpool plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.