Audio tour brings Whitlingham Country Park alive
Cutting edge technology is being used to bring the history and natural world of Whitlingham Country Park, Gateway to the Broads, alive.
From Monday 3 March visitors will be taken on an audio tour of the country park on their mobile phone as they roam the 280 acres of water, woodland and meadows.
By ringing 01603 510599, visitors can tap into information for up to 48 hours for a cost of £1.50 and a local phone call. The audio tour takes them on a three mile walk stopping at nine story posts, with illustrations in Braille, along the way. Visitors can link into as little or as much information as they like.
The Broads is the first national park member to be equipped with a mobi-tour, and follows hard on the heels of the Roman ruins at Caistor St Edmund.
The technology, which cost £75,000, has been financed by Norfolk Environmental Waste Services (NEWS) and Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund.
This week new information boards explaining the history and wildlife at the park are being installed. On Friday 29 February the Broads Authority’s Girl Fridays, a ladies’ group of volunteers, will be helping to install the signs.
Whitlingham Country Park, managed by the Whitlingham Charitable Trust, the Broads Authority and Norfolk County Council, was formed by gravel workings and now has two broads, woodlands and meadows on the doorstep of the city of Norwich. A magnificent flint barn overlooking the Great Broad houses a visitor centre - one of a network of Broads Information Centres - and a cafe. An Outdoor Education Centre on the Great Broad offers a range of outdoor activities including canoeing, sailing and windsurfing, and archery.
27/02/2008
