Welcome to Visit Wistaston Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Wistaston
Visit Wistaston places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Wistaston places to visit. A unique way to experience Wistaston’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Wistaston as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Wistaston Walkfo Preview Wistaston is a civil parish and village in the unitary authority of Cheshire East. It is approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Crewe town centre and 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Nantwich. It has a population of 8,222, reducing to 8,117 at the 2011 Census. When you visit Wistaston, Walkfo brings Wistaston places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Wistaston Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Wistaston
Visit Wistaston – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 74 audio plaques & Wistaston places for you to explore in the Wistaston area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Wistaston places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Wistaston history
In the Domesday Survey of 1086, the area was called Wistanestune and was worth 30 shillings. It was one of several local villages with the suffix ‘tune’ or ‘ton’ meaning a ‘farmstead’ in 1086.
Why visit Wistaston with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Wistaston places with Walkfo Wistaston to hear history at Wistaston’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Wistaston has 74 places to visit in our interactive Wistaston 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 Wistaston, 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 Wistaston places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Wistaston & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 74 audio facts unique to Wistaston places in an interactive Wistaston map you can explore.”
Walkfo Wistaston tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Wistaston
Best Wistaston places to visit
Wistaston has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Wistaston’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Wistaston’s information audio spots:
Porch House, Nantwich The Porch House, formerly sometimes the Porche House, is a large Georgian house, dating from the late 18th century . It is located at numbers 64A and 64B on the north side of Welsh Row (at SJ6471452454) It is entered via its former stable entrance, The Gateway .
Stapeley House Stapeley House was built in 1778 and remodelled in 1847–48 by Anthony Salvin . It has subsequently been converted for use as offices . The house is constructed in brick with ashlar dressings and it has a slate roof .
Poole Hall Poole Hall is a Regency mansion at Poole, near Nantwich in Cheshire, England. It dates from 1812–17 and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. Nikolaus Pevsner considered the interior to be “exceptionally fine”
Crewe railway station Crewe railway station is a major junction on the West Coast Main Line and serves as a rail gateway for North West England. It is 158 miles north of London Euston and 243 miles south of Glasgow Central. The platform buildings dating from the 19th century contain two bookshops, bars, buffets and waiting rooms.
Union Street Baptist Church, Crewe Union Street Baptist Church is in Union Street, Crewe, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
St Mary’s Church, Crewe St Mary’s Church is an active Roman Catholic parish church in the diocese of Shrewsbury. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
Crewe Works Crewe Works is a railway engineering facility built in 1840 by the Grand Junction Railway. It is located in the town of Crewe, in Cheshire. The railway also built 200 cottages, establishing a new community in the rural township of Monks Coppenhall.
St Michael’s Church, Coppenhall St Michael’s Church is in the Coppenhall area of Crewe, Cheshire. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester.
Crewe and Nantwich Crewe and Nantwich was, from 1974 to 2009, a local government district with borough status in Cheshire. It had a population (2001 census) of 111,007. It now forms part of the unitary authority of Cheshire East.
Visit Wistaston plaques
0 plaques hereWistaston has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Wistaston 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 Wistaston using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Wistaston plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Wistaston audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Wistaston allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Wistaston’s 74 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Wistaston freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Wistaston Map App
Our visit Wistaston map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Wistaston & 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 Wistaston tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Wistaston centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Wistaston area at LONG:-2.4747, LAT:53.0821.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Wistaston, 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.
● Nantwich Town F.C. ● Nantwich Workhouse ● Willaston Hall ● Stapeley House ● Reaseheath Old Hall ● Poole Hall ● Basford Hall Yard ● Crewe Gresty Lane TMD ● Crewe Carriage Sidings ● Basford, Cheshire ● Crewe Diesel TMD ● Whitby Morrison ● Crewe Alexandra F.C. ● Alexandra Recreation Ground ● Shavington cum Gresty ● Crewe Arms Hotel ● Rope, Cheshire ● Crewe North Junction signal box ● Crewe Works Railway ● Crewe Heritage Centre ● Crewe Stadium ● Christ Church Tower, Crewe ● Crewe War Memorial ● St Peter’s Church, Crewe ● Crewe Municipal Buildings ● Lyceum Theatre, Crewe ● St Mary’s Church, Crewe ● Wistaston ● Church of St Mary the Virgin, Wistaston ● Crewe Electric TMD ● Crewe Works ● Boer War Memorial, Crewe ● St Barnabas’ Church, Crewe ● Queens Park, Crewe ● Crewe Engineering and Design UTC ● St Michael’s Church, Coppenhall ● Crewe and Nantwich ● Willaston, Cheshire East ● Rookery Hall ● Worleston ● Clock Tower, Crewe ● Woolstanwood
Getting to / around Wistaston – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Wistaston using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Wistaston places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Wistaston Public Transport Stations
Wistaston Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Coppenhall railway station
Nantwich railway station
Willaston railway station
Crewe railway station
116 Hospital Street, Nantwich
140–142 Hospital Street, Nantwich
1–5 Pillory Street, Nantwich
9 Mill Street, Nantwich
46 High Street, Nantwich
20 High Street, Nantwich
Gresty Road
Union Street Baptist Church, Crewe
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Local Wistaston historians & Wistaston tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Wistaston? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Wistaston’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 Wistaston 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 Wistaston 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 Wistaston 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-Wistaston’ web pages (for example: www.visitWistaston.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. v1.1336