Explore Smithills Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Smithills plaques & local Smithills 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 Smithills.
About Smithills
Smithills lies on the lower south facing slopes of the West Pennine Moors. It is 3.1 miles (5 km) northwest of Bolton and 14.5 miles (23 km) south of Blackburn.
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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 Smithills 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 Smithills plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Smithills’s physical Smithills 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 Smithills the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Smithills plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 59 unique history facts in Smithills plus 9 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Smithills history map for you to explore.”