Explore South Shields Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore South Shields plaques & local South Shields 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 South Shields.
About South Shields
According to the 2011 census, South Shields had a population of 76,498. It is the fourth largest settlement in Tyne and Wear; after Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland and Gateshead. Historically, t was known to Romans as Arbeia and as Caer Urfa by Early Middle Ages.
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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 South Shields 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 South Shields plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing South Shields’s physical South Shields 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 South Shields the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
South Shields plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 63 unique history facts in South Shields plus 30 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive South Shields history map for you to explore.”