Welcome to Visit Wookey Hole Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Wookey Hole
Visit Wookey Hole places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Wookey Hole places to visit. A unique way to experience Wookey Hole’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Wookey Hole as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Wookey Hole Walkfo Preview Wookey Hole is a village in Somerset, England. It is the location of the show caves in the area. The show caves are located in the village. When you visit Wookey Hole, Walkfo brings Wookey Hole places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Visit Wookey Hole – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 44 audio plaques & Wookey Hole places for you to explore in the Wookey Hole area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Wookey Hole places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Wookey Hole toponymy
Wookey is from the Old English word wocig (an animal trap) or the Celtic word ogo (cave), referring to a cave in the caves. One possible origin for the name is from an animal trap.
Why visit Wookey Hole with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Wookey Hole places with Walkfo Wookey Hole to hear history at Wookey Hole’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Wookey Hole has 44 places to visit in our interactive Wookey Hole 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 Wookey Hole, 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 Wookey Hole places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Wookey Hole & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo Wookey Hole tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Wookey Hole
Best Wookey Hole places to visit
Wookey Hole has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Wookey Hole’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Wookey Hole’s information audio spots:
St Paul’s Church, Easton St Paul’s Church is a Church of England church in Easton, Somerset. The church was designed by Richard Carver and built in 1843. It has been a Grade II listed building since 1987.
Milton Lodge Milton Lodge is a house and garden overlooking the city of Wells in Somerset. The terraced garden was laid out in the early 20th century and is Grade II on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England.
Underwood Quarry Underwood Quarry is a former quarry near Wells, Somerset on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills. The rock was described as having very little faulting and a consistent nature, and as being ideal for road making and maintenance.
Cedars Hall Cedars Hall is Wells Cathedral School’s performing arts venue. Opened in autumn 2016, it provides the capacity for audiences of 350 in its main recital hall named Eavis Hall after Michael Eavis, CBE, founder of Glastonbury Festival.
Wells and Mendip Museum Wells and Mendip Museum is a museum in the city of Wells. It is a registered charity and accredited member of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. The exhibits include items of local history and archaeological finds.
Chain Gate, Wells The Chain Gate was built around 1460 to link the cathedral to Vicars’ Close. It controls access from St Andrew Street to the Cathedral Green within the Liberty of St Andrew.
Wells Town Hall Wells Town Hall is a municipal building in the Market Place in Wells, Somerset, England. The building is the headquarters of Wells City Council, which is a Grade II listed building.
Wells St Andrew Wells St Andrew, or St Andrew Liberty, or derivations thereof, was a liberty, ecclesiastical parish, and later a civil parish, containing Wells Cathedral (which is dedicated to Saint Andrew) and surrounding land, in Somerset, England. Wells Cathedral was dedicated to St Andrew and surrounding surrounding land.
Church of St Thomas, Wells The Church of St Thomas in Wells, Somerset, was built in the 1850s. It is a Grade II* listed building and Grade II listed building.
Rowdens Road Cricket Ground, Wells Rowdens Road is a former first-class cricket ground located in Wells, Somerset. The ground was an early home to Wells Cricket Club, though the club no longer plays there. Between 1935–1939 and 1946–1951, the ground hosted annual Somerset County Cricket Club matches. Wells City F.C. plays football matches at the site.
Visit Wookey Hole plaques
13 plaques hereWookey Hole has 13 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Wookey Hole 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 Wookey Hole using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Wookey Hole plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Wookey Hole audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Wookey Hole allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Wookey Hole’s 44 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Wookey Hole freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Wookey Hole Map App
Our visit Wookey Hole map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Wookey Hole & 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 Wookey Hole tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Wookey Hole centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Wookey Hole area at LONG:-2.6744, LAT:51.2238.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Wookey Hole, 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.
Things to do & visit in Wookey Hole / surrounding areas
● Ben Knowle ● Wookey ● St Paul’s Church, Easton ● Milton Lodge ● Underwood Quarry ● Cedars Hall ● Wells and Mendip Museum ● Wells St Cuthbert In ● Wells, Somerset ● Vicars’ Close, Wells ● Chain Gate, Wells ● The Bishop’s Eye, Wells ● Wells Rural District ● Brown’s Gatehouse, Wells ● Wells Town Hall ● Diocese of Bath and Wells ● Wells St Andrew ● Bishop’s Palace, Wells ● St John’s Priory, Wells ● The Old Deanery, Wells ● Church of St Thomas, Wells ● The Bishop’s Barn, Wells ● Wells City F.C. ● St Cuthberts Mill ● Church of St Mary Magdalene, Wookey Hole ● Wookey Hole ● Wookey Hole Caves ● Ebbor Gorge ● Eastwater Cavern ● Priddy Caves
● Swildon’s Hole ● Priddy ● Priddy Pools ● St Cuthbert’s Swallet ● Sandpit Hole and Bishop’s Lot ● Hunter’s Hole ● Brimble Pit and Cross Swallet Basins ● Westbury-sub-Mendip ● Church of St Lawrence, Westbury-sub-Mendip ● Pen Hill ● Wells Cathedral ● Drove Cottage Henge
Getting to / around Wookey Hole – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Wookey Hole using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Wookey Hole places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Wookey Hole Public Transport Stations
Wookey Hole Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Lodge Hill railway station
Wells (Tucker Street) railway station
Wells (Priory Road) railway station
Wookey railway station
Wells East Somerset railway station
Mendip transmitting station
Rowdens Road Cricket Ground, Wells
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Local Wookey Hole historians & Wookey Hole tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Wookey Hole? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Wookey Hole’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 Wookey Hole 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 Wookey Hole 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 Wookey Hole 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-Wookey Hole’ web pages (for example: www.visitWookey Hole.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
Visit Wookey Hole places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Wookey Hole places to visit. A unique way to experience Wookey Hole’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Wookey Hole as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Wookey Hole places with Walkfo Wookey Hole to hear history at Wookey Hole’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Wookey Hole has 44 places to visit in our interactive Wookey Hole 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 Wookey Hole, 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 Wookey Hole places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Wookey Hole & the surrounding areas.
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Trying to encourage visitors to Wookey Hole?