Explore Grantham Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Grantham plaques & local Grantham 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 Grantham.
About Grantham
Grantham is a market and industrial town in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire. It lies some 23 miles (37 km) south of the county town, Lincoln, and 22 miles (35 km) east of Nottingham. The UK’s first running diesel engine was made there in 1892 and the first tractor in 1896. Thomas Paine worked there as an excise officer in the 1790s.
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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 Grantham 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 Grantham plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Grantham’s physical Grantham 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 Grantham the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Grantham plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 33 unique history facts in Grantham plus 17 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Grantham history map for you to explore.”