Explore Dumfries Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Dumfries plaques & local Dumfries 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 Dumfries.
About Dumfries
Dumfries is the county town of the historic county of Dumfriesshire. It is located 25 miles (40 km) by road from the Anglo-Scottish border and just 15 miles (24 km) away from Cumbria by air. People from the town are known colloquially in Scots language as Doonhamers.
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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 Dumfries 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 Dumfries plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Dumfries’s physical Dumfries 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 Dumfries the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Dumfries plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 36 unique history facts in Dumfries plus 6 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Dumfries history map for you to explore.”