Explore Swinton, Greater Manchester Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Swinton, Greater Manchester plaques & local Swinton, Greater Manchester 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 Swinton, Greater Manchester.
About Swinton, Greater Manchester
Swinton is 4.2 miles (6.8 km) northwest of Manchester city centre. In 2014, it had a population of 22,931. Historically in Lancashire, for centuries Swinton was a small hamlet in the township of Worsley, parish of Eccles and hundred of Salfordshire. In the High Middle Ages, farming was the main industry, with locals supplementing their incomes by hand-loom woollen weaving in domestic system. Collieries opened in the Industrial Revolution and Swinton became an important industrial area.
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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 Swinton, Greater Manchester 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 Swinton, Greater Manchester plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Swinton, Greater Manchester’s physical Swinton, Greater Manchester 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 Swinton, Greater Manchester the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Swinton, Greater Manchester plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 84 unique history facts in Swinton, Greater Manchester plus 51 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Swinton, Greater Manchester history map for you to explore.”