Visit West Berkshire Place – things to do & explore
Visit West Berkshire places on a day-trip, weekend away or holiday – and Walkfo becomes your personal digital tour guide to West Berkshire things to do.
Visiting West Berkshire Overview
West Berkshire is a local government district in Berkshire, England . It is administered from Newbury by West Berkshire Council . The district is a part of West Berkshire County Council . When you visit West Berkshire, West Berkshire history becomes available at the places you travel to by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
West Berkshire places overview by Walkfo
Visit to West Berkshire stats
With 354 tourism audio plaques & places for you to explore in West Berkshire, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider in the world. Our AI continually learns & refines content about the best West Berkshire places to visit from online information authorities like Wikipedia for current & history, and converts it into an audio experience.
West Berkshire history
The district of Newbury was formed on 1 April 1974, as a merger of the borough and the rest of Wantage Rural District. Until 1 April 1998, Newbury District Council and Berkshire County Council were responsible for the region at local government level.
West Berkshire geography / climate
West Berkshire is semi-rural in character, with most of the population living in the wooded Kennet valley. Apart from Newbury, the other main centres in the district include Thatcham, Hungerford, Pangbourne and Lambourn. The highest point in southeast/south-central England is located in West Berkshire at Walbury Hill with a summit height of 297 m (974 ft)
When you visit West Berkshire
You can visit West Berkshire places and use Walkfo West Berkshire to discover the history & things to do in West Berkshire whilst walking with our free digital tour app. Walkfo West Berkshire has 354 places on our West Berkshire map with history, culture & travel facts that you 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 West Berkshire, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route – you choose where you want to go, when you want to go and Walkfo West Berkshire will keep up. – With millions of places including tourist walks, West Berkshire travel destinations, National Trust locations converted to audio experiences, our West Berkshire places AI guide will help you get the best from your visit to West Berkshire & the surrounding areas. The West Berkshire places app for iPhone & Android delivers hidden history, interesting culture and amazing facts in interactive audio stories in response to where you walk at National Heritage sites, tourist attractions, historic locations or city streets, with no predefined walk map requirements.
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 354 audio facts unique to West Berkshire places forming an interactive West Berkshire map for you to explore.”
Walkfo West Berkshire tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in West Berkshire
Best West Berkshire places to visit
West Berkshire has many places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied West Berkshire’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo West Berkshire’s information audio spots:
St Thomas’ Church, East Shefford St Thomas’ Church is a redundant Church of England parish church at East Shefford in Berkshire. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade I listed building. The church stands in an isolated position at the end of a private drive overlooking the River Lambourn.
Wilder’s Folly Wilder’s Folly is a folly and dovecote at Nunhide, near the village of Sulham in the English county of Berkshire.
RAF Theale Royal Air Force Theale or more simply RAF Theale is located south of Theale, Berkshire, England. The following units were here at some point: No. 8 Elementary Flying Training School RAF No. 26 Elementary flying Training School. No. 2818 Squadron RAF Regiment Air Crew Disposal Unit.
Hosehill Lake Hosehill Lake is a 23.6-hectare (58-acre) Local Nature Reserve west of Reading in Berkshire. It is owned by West Berkshire Council and managed by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust.
Southend, Berkshire Southend is a small rural village in the west of the civil parish of Bradfield in the English county of Berkshire. Until the 1965 opening of its church it was a hamlet.
King’s Copse King’s Copse is a 13.7-hectare (34-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest. It is in the North Wessex Downs, which is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The site is private land but a public footpath runs through it.
Greenham and Crookham Commons Greenham and Crookham Commons are two adjoining public park areas of 280.5-hectare (693-acre) common land designated as a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) on the southern outskirts of Newbury in the English county of Berkshire.
Newbury power station Newbury power station supplied electricity to the town of Newbury, Berkshire, from 1905 to 1970. It comprised, at various times, hydro-electric, gas engine and diesel engine powered plant with a maximum output capacity of 2.57 MW.
Phoenix Brewery The Phoenix Brewery (also known as Finns Brewery) was a brewery run by the Finns family in Newbury, Berkshire, UK.
Newbury Town Hall Newbury Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place in Newbury, Berkshire, England. The building is a Grade II listed building.
Visit West Berkshire plaques
5 plaques hereWest Berkshire has 5 physical plaques within tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo West Berkshire plaques when visiting. Plaque schemes such as National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened. Where a plaque is available, Walkfo AI has done research to provide additional, deeper content when you visit West Berkshire using the app. Experience hidden history & stories at each location as the Walkfo local tourist guide app uses trigger audio close to each West Berkshire plaque. Explore West Berkshire Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience West Berkshire audio walks & tours
Walkfo is a free app that guides you around things to do / places to visit in West Berkshire. Explore as you wish, as you would do an art gallery or museum, and when you walk close to any of the 354 locations, our digital tour guide will provide history, culture & travel facts in audio form. With headphone connected, you can explore West Berkshire freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore West Berkshire Map App
Our visit West Berkshire map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in West Berkshire & 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 West Berkshire tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the West Berkshire centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit West Berkshire area at LONG:-1.3235, LAT:51.4009.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore West Berkshire, 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.
● Wickham, Berkshire ● Clapton, Berkshire ● St Thomas’ Church, East Shefford ● Great Shefford ● Pincent’s Kiln ● Garston Lock ● Arlington Business Park ● Wilder’s Folly ● Draper’s Osier Bed Stream ● Sheffield Lock ● RAF Theale ● Little Heath, Berkshire ● Hosehill Lake ● Sulhamstead Lock ● South Fawley ● Fawley, Berkshire ● Chaddleworth ● Tutts Clump ● Stanford Dingley ● Southend, Berkshire ● Bradfield Rural District ● King’s Copse ● Beenham ● Chapel Row ● Sulhamstead ● Arlington Square, Bracknell ● Tyle Mill ● Tyle Mill Lock ● Ufton Nervet ● Ufton Nervet rail crash ● Great Auclum National Speed Hill Climb ● Purley on Thames ● Mapledurham Lock ● Sulham ● Beech Hill, Berkshire ● Stratfield Saye Priory ● Bloomfield Hatch ● Wokefield ● Wash Water ● Enborne Row ● Picketfield Lock ● Cobbler’s Lock ● Bishop’s Green ● Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp ● Greenham and Crookham Commons ● List of local nature reserves in Berkshire ● List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Berkshire ● Mortimer Common ● Sulham and Tidmarsh Woods and Meadows ● Tidmarsh with Sulham ● Moor Copse ● Tidmarsh ● Battle of Englefield ● Englefield, Berkshire ● St John the Evangelist Church, Newbury ● Corn Exchange, Newbury ● Newbury F.C. ● West Berkshire Museum ● Black Boys Bridge ● Newbury, Berkshire ● West Berkshire ● Phoenix Brewery ● Newbury Town Hall ● Greenham Lock ● St Nicolas Church, Newbury ● Newbury Bridge ● Victoria Park, Newbury ● Newbury Lock ● Newbury Racecourse ● Parkway Newbury ● Audrey’s Meadow ● Ham Lock ● Speenhamland, Berkshire ● Shaw, Berkshire ● River Lambourn ● Greenham ● Shaw House, Berkshire ● Sandleford ● Benham Hill ● West Berkshire Community Hospital ● Sandleford Priory (country house) ● Newbury & Crookham Golf Club ● Shaw-cum-Donnington ● Bull’s Lock ● First Battle of Newbury ● Donnington Friary ● Speen, Berkshire ● Guyer’s Lock ● Second Battle of Newbury ● Donnington, Berkshire ● The Nature Discovery Centre ● Nature Discovery Centre ● Thatcham Reed Beds ● Wash Common ● RAF Greenham Common ● Greenham Preceptory ● Padworth Common Local Nature Reserve ● Padworth Common ● Thatcham ● St Mary’s Church, Thatcham ● Widmead Lock ● Ashmore Green ● Cold Ash ● Decoy Pit, Pools and Woods ● Ashampstead Common ● Burnt Hill, Berkshire ● Yattendon ● West Berkshire Brewery ● Ashampstead Green ● Yattendon Castle ● Donnington Grove ● Donnington Castle ● Rack Marsh ● Benham Park ● Watermill Theatre ● Bagnor ● The Vineyard Hotel ● Higg’s Lock ● Woodspeen ● Stockcross ● Honey Bottom ● Benham Lock ● Marsh Benham ● Snelsmore Common ● Ashampstead ● Upper Basildon ● Cold Ash Quarry ● Order of Silence ● Curridge ● Pangbourne ● Seven Barrows ● RAF Hampstead Norris ● Aldworth ● The Bell Inn, Aldworth ● The Living Rainforest ● Dun Mill Lock ● River Dun (River Kennet) ● Lower Denford ● Hungerford Town F.C. ● Hungerford ● Hungerford Town Hall ● Hungerford massacre ● Eddington, Berkshire ● Wire Lock ● Hungerford Lock ● Denford Park ● Upper Eddington ● Freeman’s Marsh ● Upper Denford ● Brunsden Lock ● Hungerford Marsh Lock ● Kennet and Lambourn Floodplain ● Leverton, Berkshire ● Avington, Berkshire ● The Victorian Kitchen Garden ● Beale Wildlife Park ● Basildon Park ● Bucklebury Common ● Bucklebury Manor ● Midgham Green ● Bucklebury Farm Park ● Douai Abbey ● Bucklebury ● Upper Woolhampton ● Bullingdon Hundred ● Midgham ● Old Copse, Beenham ● Briff Lane Meadows ● Woolhampton ● Woolhampton Lock ● Woolhampton Reed Bed ● Orion (laser) ● West’s Meadow, Aldermaston ● Tadley Calleva F.C. ● RAF Aldermaston ● A.F.C. Aldermaston ● Paices Wood Country Parkland ● Aldermaston Court ● Wasing ● MERLIN reactor ● Wasing Wood Ponds ● Aldermaston ● Brimpton Airfield ● Elcot Park Hotel ● Elcot, Berkshire ● Hoe Benham ● Sole Common Pond ● Halfway, Berkshire ● Coombe Wood, Frilsham ● Hampstead Norris Castle ● Grimsbury Castle ● Marlston ● Hermitage, Berkshire ● Oare, Berkshire ● Denison Barracks ● Eling, Berkshire ● Englefield House ● River Bourne, Berkshire ● Enborne ● Avery’s Pightle ● Crockham Heath ● Chieveley services ● Watts Bank ● Cleeve Hill SSSI, Berkshire ● Lambourn Woodlands ● M4 corridor ● Eastbury, Berkshire ● Membury services ● St Mary’s Church, Lambourn Woodlands ● Hampstead Norreys ● Beenham Stocks ● Aldermaston Gravel Pits ● River Enborne ● Aldermaston Lock ● Aldermaston Wharf ● Lower Padworth ● Padworth Lock ● Towney Lock ● Padworth ● Farnborough, Berkshire ● Brightwalton ● Compton, Berkshire ● East Ilsley ● Cleeve Lock ● Streatley, Berkshire ● Gatehampton Railway Bridge ● Lardon Chase ● Holies Down ● Lardon Chase, the Holies and Lough Down ● Goring & Streatley Golf Club ● St Bartholomew’s Church, Lower Basildon ● Lower Basildon ● Inkpen Crocus Field ● Inkpen ● Inkpen Common ● Inkpen Common SSSI ● Hell Corner ● West Woodhay House ● Catmore and Winterly Copses ● Inkpen and Walbury Hills ● Combe Gibbet ● Walbury Hill ● West Woodhay ● West Woodhay Down ● Kintbury Rangers F.C. ● Kintbury Newt Ponds ● Snelsmore ● Bussock Camp ● Winterbourne, Berkshire ● Winterbourne Chalk Pit ● Chieveley ● Chieveley House ● Combe Wood and Linkenholt Hanging ● Downend, Berkshire ● Beedon ● Beedon Common ● World’s End, Berkshire ● Kintbury ● Kintbury Abbey ● Kintbury Lock ● Irish Hill Copse ● Kennet Valley Alderwoods ● Hamstead Marshall ● Hamstead Marshall Pit ● Dreweatt’s Lock ● Fognam Chalk Quarry ● Park Farm Down ● Anvilles ● Streatley Warren ● Upper Lambourn ● Goddard’s Green, Berkshire ● Lockram Brook ● Brightwalton Green ● Aldern Bridge ● Enborne Copse ● Basildon, Berkshire ● Heale’s Lock ● East Garston ● Leckhampstead War Memorial ● Leckhampstead, Berkshire ● Poughley Priory ● Hunts Green, Berkshire ● Hungerford Newtown ● Ashridge Wood ● Bothampstead ● Hog’s Hole ● Combe, Berkshire ● Woodlands St Mary ● 1991 M4 motorway crash ● Westfield Farm Chalk Bank ● Peasemore ● RAF Welford ● Hamstead Lock ● Copse Lock ● Weston, Berkshire ● West Berkshire Golf Club ● Redhill Wood ● Croker’s Hole ● Welford Park ● Welford, Berkshire ● Easton Farm Meadow ● Wickham Heath ● Ownham ● Boxford Water Meadows ● Boxford Chalk Pit ● Boxford, Berkshire ● Brimpton ● Theale ● Bradfield, Berkshire ● The Bladebone Inn ● Folly Farm, Sulhamstead ● Ufton Lock ● Burghfield ● Berkshire ● Stratfield Mortimer ● Church of St Mary the Virgin, Aldermaston ● Frilsham ● Lambourn ● Perborough Castle ● Aldermaston Brewery ● Genetic Studios ● Newbury Castle
Getting to / around West Berkshire – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in West Berkshire using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following West Berkshire places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local West Berkshire Public Transport Stations
West Berkshire Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Thatcham railway station
Reading Green Park railway station
Theale railway station
Mortimer railway station
Newbury Racecourse railway station
Newbury power station
Newbury West Fields Halt railway station
Speen railway station
Stockcross and Bagnor Halt railway station
Pangbourne railway station
Hungerford railway station
Midgham railway station
Pinewood Halt railway station
Hermitage railway station
Lambourn railway station
Eastbury Halt railway station
Membury transmitting station
Hampstead Norris railway station
Aldermaston railway station
Compton railway station
Kintbury railway station
East Garston railway station
Welford Park railway station
Boxford railway station
Newbury railway station
Great Shefford railway station
A329 road
A340 road
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Local West Berkshire historians & West Berkshire tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to West Berkshire? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives West Berkshire’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 West Berkshire 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 West Berkshire 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 West Berkshire 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-West Berkshire’ web pages (for example: www.visitWest Berkshire.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. v1.131
Visit West Berkshire places on a day-trip, weekend away or holiday – and Walkfo becomes your personal digital tour guide to West Berkshire things to do.
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