Explore Silvertown Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Silvertown plaques & local Silvertown 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 Silvertown.
About Silvertown
Silvertown is a district in the London Borough of Newham, in east London. It was historically part of the parish and borough of West Ham, hundred of Becontree and historic county of Essex. The area was named after the factories established by Stephen William Silver in 1852. It is now dominated by the Tate & Lyle sugar refinery and animal rendering plant.
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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 Silvertown 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 Silvertown plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Silvertown’s physical Silvertown 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 Silvertown the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Silvertown plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 391 unique history facts in Silvertown plus 47 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Silvertown history map for you to explore.”