Explore Stockport Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Stockport plaques & local Stockport 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 Stockport.
About Stockport
Stockport is 7 miles (11 km) south-east of Manchester city centre . It is the largest town in the metropolitan borough of the same name . Most of the town is within the historic county of Cheshire, with the area north of the Mersey in Lancashire . It was at the centre of the country’s hatting industry, which by 1884 was exporting six million hats a year .
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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 Stockport 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 Stockport plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Stockport’s physical Stockport 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 Stockport the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Stockport plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 78 unique history facts in Stockport plus 16 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Stockport history map for you to explore.”