Explore Cartmel Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Cartmel plaques & local Cartmel 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 Cartmel.
About Cartmel
Cartmel is 2.2 miles (3.5 km) north-west of Grange-over-Sands close to the River Eea. The name means “sandbank by rocky ground”, from the Old Norse kartr (rocky ground) and melr. The ancient parish was traditionally known as the Land of Cartmel – an area quite separate from the Furness peninsula. Cartmel was the favourite holiday spot of the Lancashire dialect writer and BBC broadcaster Thomas Thompson.
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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 Cartmel 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 Cartmel plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Cartmel’s physical Cartmel 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 Cartmel the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Cartmel plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 26 unique history facts in Cartmel plus 15 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Cartmel history map for you to explore.”