Explore Pontefract Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Pontefract plaques & local Pontefract 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 Pontefract.
About Pontefract
Pontefract is one of the towns in the City of Wakefield District and had a population of 30,881 at the 2011 Census. The town’s motto is Post mortem patris pro filio, Latin for “After the death of the father, support the son”, a reference to the town’s Royalist sympathies in the English Civil 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 Pontefract 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 Pontefract plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Pontefract’s physical Pontefract 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 Pontefract the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Pontefract plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 33 unique history facts in Pontefract plus 24 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Pontefract history map for you to explore.”