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The National Trust has launched a free iPhone app to help you find your nearest place to visit, wherever you are in the country. With hundreds of properties and many of the UK’s favourite coast and countryside locations in our care, the app gives you the chance to find basic information about places, opening times, car parking and directions.
The app uses the tech inside your iPhone or iPod touch to find National Trust places and spaces near you, or helps you look further afield to plan picnic spots, en-route stop-offs or other destinations on trips away from home. Developed by an in-house team of developers and designers, the app is available now to download for free from the iTunes app store.
Phillip Ludgate, Head of Digital Media at the National Trust, said: ‘I’ve always been amazed by the fact that wherever you are in the country, you’re never more than 40 miles away from a place looked after by the National Trust. Our challenge is to find ways of demonstrating this to a wider audience – and the app is the perfect way to reach people who might never have come to the Trust before, or who might not realise the breadth of places in our care. Over the next weekend we’re opening the doors of hundreds of our places for free through our Bonus Time weekend, and there’s no better way to find the places near you than by using the new app.’
The app has leapt into the top five free travel apps and the initial response from users has been positive, with members of the public responding to the launch on Facebook and Twitter pages in their droves. The overall opinion is that the app offers some really useful features, is easy to use and has a pleasingly clean design.
National Trust (£free) [iTunes link]
[Via: TechDigest]
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