Explore Essex Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Essex plaques & local Essex 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 Essex.
About Essex
Essex is one of the home counties in the East of England . The county town is Chelmsford, the only city in the county . It borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south .
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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 Essex 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 Essex plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Essex’s physical Essex 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 Essex the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Essex plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 1193 unique history facts in Essex plus 97 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Essex history map for you to explore.”