Explore Grotton Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Grotton plaques & local Grotton 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 Grotton.
About Grotton
Grotton is a residential area in Saddleworth, a civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester. Historically a rural hamlet close to the boundary with Lancashire. The urbanisation took place following the Industrial Revolution in the 1930s. The former railway line to Oldham Mumps railway station closed in 1962.
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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 Grotton 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 Grotton plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Grotton’s physical Grotton 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 Grotton the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Grotton plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 49 unique history facts in Grotton plus 8 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Grotton history map for you to explore.”