Visit Westbury-on-Trym – things to do & explore
When you visit Westbury-on-Trym on a day-trip, weekend away or holiday, Walkfo is the digital tour guide to the hidden history & cultural facts that you can explore in Westbury-on-Trym. Millions of audio content spots are available when you travel by foot, bike, bus or car around Westbury-on-Trym through your mobile phone connected to headphones.
Overview of Westbury-on-Trym history & facts by Walkfo
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Westbury on Trym is a suburb and council ward in the north of the City of Bristol, near the suburbs of Stoke Bishop, Westbury Park, Henleaze, Southmead and Henbury, in the southwest of England. With a village atmosphere, the place is partly named after the River Trym, which flows through it.
Westbury-on-Trym history
The origins of Westbury on Trym predate those of Bristol itself. In the 6th century Westbury was in the territory of Hwicce, which became part of Mercia in the 7th century. The earliest record of Westbury, in the form Uuestburg, was in a charter dated between 793 and 796. -burg or -bury was from the Old English burh, which usually meant a fort but could also mean a fortified house or a minster. The name may refer to a minster already present on the site of the parish church in the 8th century. It is not clear why the burh was “west”. It possibly referred to the westernmost minster in the territory of Hwicce. At the end of the 8th century, King Offa of Mercia granted land at Westbury to his minister, Aethelmund. Early in the 9th century land at Westbury passed to the Bishop of Worcester. Later there was a monastery at Westbury, probably initially a secular one, with married clergy. This changed towards the end of the 10th century when Oswald of Worcester, in whose diocese the monastery lay, sent a party of 12 monks to follow more stringent rules at the Westbury monastery. The architect Ednoth constructed a new church and other buildings. The monastery became a college with a dean and canons at the end of the 13th century. It was rebuilt in the mid-15th century to resemble a miniature castle with turrets and a gatehouse. Westbury College was dissolved in 1544 and became a private house. The Royalist Prince Rupert of the Rhine used it as his quarters during the English Civil War. When he left, in 1643, he ordered it to be set on fire so that the Parliamentarians could not make use of it. In the 20th century some of the college buildings were restored. Westbury College Gatehouse passed into the hands of the National Trust and the grounds were adapted for housing elderly people. The current Church of the Holy Trinity dates from 1194 (although there has been a place of worship on the site since 717), with an early 13th century nave and aisles, and 15th century chancel, chapels and tower. It is a grade I listed building. The ancient parish of Westbury on Trym was a large one. It included Stoke Bishop, Redland, a large exclave comprising Shirehampton and Avonmouth, and several smaller exclaves in the parish of Henbury. When the civil parish was created in 1866, Shirehampton was separated to form its own civil parish, and in 1894 Redland also became a separate civil parish. In 1904 the civil parish was abolished and absorbed into Bristol. Redland remained in the ecclesiastical parish of Westbury until 1942. Development of the village into a large suburb of Bristol was started in the 1920s and was well underway by the 30s. Many detached and semi-detached villas were built in this period. Apart from during World War II, major house building did not cease until the 60s. Falcondale Road was constructed during the 1930s to act as a bypass to the narrow twisting streets of the old village. With the opening of the Filton Bypass in the late 30s, Falcondale Road acted as a major conduit for A38 holiday traffic going to and from the South West. However, when the Filton Bypass was split into two by the construction of the Brabazon Runway in the late 40s, A38 traffic had to be directed to the original route through Filton.
You can visit Westbury-on-Trym, COUNTY/BOROUGH & use Walkfo to discover the best walking places with our free digital tour guide app created especially for Westbury-on-Trym. Walkfo Westbury-on-Trym has 300 locations with history, culture & travel facts, that you can explore the same way you can a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Westbury-on-Trym, being in the moment, without digital distraction and no limitations to a specific walking route – you choose where you want to go, when you want to go and Walkfo Westbury-on-Trym will keep up.
When you visit Westbury-on-Trym
When you visit Westbury-on-Trym, Walkfo is your digital tour guide while exploring by foot, bike or bus. With numerous walks, hikes, tourist locations & travel destinations available in Westbury-on-Trym, our travel AI guide helps you get the best from your visit to Westbury-on-Trym & the surrounding areas. Our explore Westbury-on-Trym app for iPhone & Android, allows you to experience the hidden history, culture and amazing facts throughout Westbury-on-Trym whilst out walking. The digital tour guide creates interactive audio stories driven by where you walk, so you can exploration Westbury-on-Trym’s National Heritage sites, tourist attractions, historic locations or city streets freely, without the restrictions of a predefined walk & walk map.
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 0 audio facts in Westbury-on-Trym alone that form an interactive Westbury-on-Trym walking map for you to explore.”
Best Westbury-on-Trym places to visit
Westbury-on-Trym has hundreds of places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are five of Westbury-on-Trym’s best destinations to visit when exploring the area. We have condensed the information with much more detail available within Walkfo when you visit the destinations.
bVisit Westbury-on-Trym plaques
Westbury-on-Trym has 0 plaques as part of nation or local tourist plaque schemes for you to explore when you visit. Plaque schemes such as National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide a visual geo marker to highlight points of interest things, at the places where they happened. Walkfo has researched each plaque to provide additional content when you visit the Westbury-on-Trym plaques whilst using the app. Experience the hidden history & stories behind each location as the Walkfo local tourist guide app uses GPS to trigger audio close to each Westbury-on-Trym plaque. Walkfo also offers millions of additional ‘virtual geo plaques’ that are unique to Walkfo, created across the UK (and the world).
When using Walkfo to explore Westbury-on-Trym, you will hear the full story of each of these plaques.
Experience Westbury-on-Trym audio walks & tours
Walkfo is a free app that shows you things to do / visit in Westbury-on-Trym on a map. You can explore the area as you wish, as you would do an art gallery or museum, and when you walk close to those locations, our digital tour guide will tell you history, culture & travel facts about the location in audio form. With headphone connected, you can explore Westbury-on-Trym freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Visiting Westbury-on-Trym with Walkfo’s things to do interactive map
The “Westbury-on-Trym things to do map” below is a preview of the places you can visit in Westbury-on-Trym and surrounding areas with our digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has content for a plaque, a building, a street or general area, providing history, culture or tourism information the you can explore.
| Interactive ‘Explore Westbury-on-Trym Map’
This Westbury-on-Trym tourism map shows points of interest within a 4km radius of Westbury-on-Trym centre | Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Westbury-on-Trym, 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.
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Things to do & visit in Westbury-on-Trym and surrounding areas
Getting to / around Westbury-on-Trym – transport links, stations, streets & traffic map
Getting around in Westbury-on-Trym using public transportation may include roads, streets, trains, undergrounds, buses or trams. Walkfo has the following important Westbury-on-Trym public transport locations with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
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Attention local Westbury-on-Trym historians, tour guides & Westbury-on-Trym tourism agents
Looking for a way to get more visitors to Westbury-on-Trym?
Whilst Walkfo has millions audio spots already available, Walkfo Creator allows tourist destinations, attractions & landmarks to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & walks using the simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. Creating an audio walk for you destination is free* and can be created in under 15 minutes if you have content ready, with Walkfo Creator doing all the hard work generating audio files for geo spot you simply click on a map.
The 100 Amazing Westbury-on-Trym Places outdoor museum was created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) as a way for people to safely explore the area during Covid-19 times whilst improving the experience of visiting a city when tourism boards use Walkfo to market their destination.
Walkfo is currently looking to partner with websites who offer things-to-do / what’s on events listings to add to our content on our webpages (for example: www.visitWestbury-on-Trym.com). If you are interested in being a content provider, 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.