Explore North Shields Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore North Shields plaques & local North Shields 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 North Shields.
About North Shields
North Shields is a coastal town on the north bank of the River Tyne. Historically part of Northumberland, it now falls within the metropolitan borough of North Tyneside. The town’s name derives from Middle English schele meaning “temporary sheds or huts used by fishermen”
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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 North Shields 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 North Shields plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing North Shields’s physical North Shields 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 North Shields the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
North Shields plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 61 unique history facts in North Shields plus 33 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive North Shields history map for you to explore.”