Explore Bolton Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Bolton plaques & local Bolton 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 Bolton.
About Bolton
Bolton is a large town in Greater Manchester in North West England, historically and traditionally a part of Lancashire . A former mill town, Bolton has been a production centre for textiles since Flemish weavers settled in the area in the 14th century, introducing a wool and cotton-weaving tradition . The town was a 19th-century boomtown and, at its zenith in 1929, its 216 cotton mills and 26 bleaching and dyeing works made it one of the largest and most productive centres of cotton spinning in the world .
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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 Bolton 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 Bolton plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Bolton’s physical Bolton 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 Bolton the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Bolton plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 80 unique history facts in Bolton plus 12 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Bolton history map for you to explore.”