Explore Quartermile Plaques & History

Explore Quartermile plaques & local Quartermile 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 Quartermile.

About Quartermile
Quartermile is the marketing name given to the mixed use redevelopment of the former Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh site, in Lauriston, Edinburgh. Completed in 2018 after more than a decade of construction, it contains 1,050 apartments, 370,000 square feet (34,000 m) of office space, 65,000 sq ft of retail and leisure space and seven-acres of open landscape.

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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 Quartermile 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 Quartermile plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Quartermile’s physical Quartermile 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 Quartermile the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.

Quartermile plaques & short history overview