Explore Scalloway Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Scalloway plaques & local Scalloway 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 Scalloway.
About Scalloway
Scalloway (Old Norse: Skálavágr, “bay with the large house(s)”) is the largest settlement on the west coast of Mainland, the largest island of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. It contains one of the two castles built in Shetlands; this one was constructed in 1600. The village had a population of roughly 900 at the 2011 census.
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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 Scalloway 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 Scalloway plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Scalloway’s physical Scalloway 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 Scalloway the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Scalloway plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 13 unique history facts in Scalloway plus 1 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Scalloway history map for you to explore.”