Explore Blaby Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Blaby plaques & local Blaby 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 Blaby.
About Blaby
Blaby is some five miles south of Leicester city centre. It has population of around 6,240 (2001 figures), falling slightly to 6,194 at the 2011 census. Its name probably came Old Norse Blábýr = “farmstead or village belonging to a man named Blár”
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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 Blaby 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 Blaby plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Blaby’s physical Blaby 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 Blaby the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Blaby plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 35 unique history facts in Blaby plus 1 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Blaby history map for you to explore.”