Explore Shaftesbury Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Shaftesbury plaques & local Shaftesbury 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 Shaftesbury.
About Shaftesbury
Shaftesbury is the only significant hilltop settlement in Dorset. It is situated on the A30 road, 20 miles west of Salisbury, near the border with Wiltshire. The town looks over the Blackmore Vale, part of the River Stour basin. Adjacent to the abbey site is Gold Hill, a steep cobbled street used in the 1970s as the setting for Ridley Scott’s television advertisement for Hovis bread.
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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 Shaftesbury 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 Shaftesbury plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Shaftesbury’s physical Shaftesbury 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 Shaftesbury the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Shaftesbury plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 18 unique history facts in Shaftesbury plus 10 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Shaftesbury history map for you to explore.”