Explore Taunton Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Taunton plaques & local Taunton 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 Taunton.
About Taunton
Taunton has a thousand-year history, including a 10th-century monastic foundation. The Normans built a castle owned by the Bishops of Winchester. The Duke of Monmouth crowned himself King of England here in 1685. The Grand Western Canal reached Taunon in 1839 and the Bristol and Exeter Railway in 1842.
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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 Taunton 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 Taunton plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Taunton’s physical Taunton 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 Taunton the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Taunton plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 61 unique history facts in Taunton plus 6 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Taunton history map for you to explore.”