Explore Accrington Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Accrington plaques & local Accrington history / heritage content through street plaque schemes (including Blue plaques, English Heritage & National Trust) plus Walkfo’s millions of audio plaques in Walkfo’s Audio Travel Guide to Accrington.
About Accrington
Accrington is a former centre of the cotton and textile machinery industries. The town is famed for manufacturing the hardest and densest building bricks in the world, “The Accrington NORI” (iron), which were used in the construction of the Empire State Building and for the foundations of Blackpool Tower.
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plaques Walkfo has converted physical plaques into audio files triggered by GPS on a phone when you pass close by on foot, bike, bus or car. You hear Accrington history information & more at the places where they happened, with up-to-date content created by our AI, sourced from trusted history resources such as Wikipedia, local Accrington plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Accrington’s physical Accrington plaque schemes with additional, more detailed information than the writing on the physical plaque. With millions of audio places / virtual plaques created across the whole of the UK, you can explore Accrington the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Accrington plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 24 unique history facts in Accrington plus 7 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Accrington history map for you to explore.”