Explore Greater Manchester Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Greater Manchester plaques & local Greater Manchester 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 Greater Manchester.
About Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county and combined authority area in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million. It comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the cities of Manchester and Salford. Greater Manchester spans 493 square miles (1,277 km), which roughly covers the territory of the Greater Manchester Built-up Area, the second most populous urban area in the UK. It borders the ceremonial counties of Cheshire, Derbyshire, West Yorkshire and Lancashire.
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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 Greater Manchester 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 Greater Manchester plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Greater Manchester’s physical Greater Manchester 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 Greater Manchester the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Greater Manchester plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 131 unique history facts in Greater Manchester plus 56 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Greater Manchester history map for you to explore.”