Explore Dewsbury Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Dewsbury plaques & local Dewsbury 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 Dewsbury.
About Dewsbury
Dewsbury is a minster town within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees. It lies on the River Calder and an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Huddersfield and south of Leeds. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, after undergoing a period of major growth in the 19th century as a mill town.
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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 Dewsbury 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 Dewsbury plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Dewsbury’s physical Dewsbury 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 Dewsbury the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Dewsbury plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 47 unique history facts in Dewsbury plus 7 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Dewsbury history map for you to explore.”