Explore Leatherhead Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Leatherhead plaques & local Leatherhead 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 Leatherhead.
About Leatherhead
Leatherhead grew up beside a ford on the River Mole, from which its name is thought to derive. During the late Anglo-Saxon period, Leatherhead was a royal vill and is first mentioned in the will of Alfred the Great in 880 AD. The construction of turnpike roads in the mid-18th century and the arrival of the railways attracted newcomers to the town. Large-scale manufacturing industries arrived following the end of the First World War.
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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 Leatherhead 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 Leatherhead plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Leatherhead’s physical Leatherhead 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 Leatherhead the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Leatherhead plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 33 unique history facts in Leatherhead plus 6 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Leatherhead history map for you to explore.”