Explore Sandwell Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Sandwell plaques & local Sandwell 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 Sandwell.
About Sandwell
Sandwell is a metropolitan borough of the West Midlands county in England . The borough is named after the Sandwell Priory and spans a densely populated part of the Midlands conurbation . At the 2011 census, the borough had a population of 309,000 and an area of 86 square kilometres (33 sq mi) In 2019 Sandwell was ranked 12th most deprived of England’s 317 boroughs .
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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 Sandwell 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 Sandwell plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Sandwell’s physical Sandwell 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 Sandwell the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Sandwell plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 129 unique history facts in Sandwell plus 28 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Sandwell history map for you to explore.”