Explore Sheffield Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Sheffield plaques & local Sheffield 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 Sheffield.
About Sheffield
Sheffield is a historic part of Yorkshire, although some southern suburbs have been annexed from Derbyshire . It is situated east of Manchester, south of Leeds and north of Nottingham . Sixty-one per cent of Sheffield’s entire area is green space, and a third of the city lies within the Peak District national park . The city’s gross value added (GVA) has increased by 60% since 1997, standing at £11.3 billion in 2015 .
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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 Sheffield 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 Sheffield plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Sheffield’s physical Sheffield 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 Sheffield the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Sheffield plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 290 unique history facts in Sheffield plus 71 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Sheffield history map for you to explore.”