Explore Telford and Wrekin Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Telford and Wrekin plaques & local Telford and Wrekin 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 Telford and Wrekin.
About Telford and Wrekin
The district was created in 1974 as The Wrekin, then a non-metropolitan district of Shropshire . In 1998 the district became a unitary authority and was renamed Telford and Wrekins . The borough’s major settlement is Telford, a new town designated in the 1960s incorporating the existing towns of Dawley, Ketley, Madeley, Oakengates and Wellington .
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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 Telford and Wrekin 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 Telford and Wrekin plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Telford and Wrekin’s physical Telford and Wrekin 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 Telford and Wrekin the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Telford and Wrekin plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 136 unique history facts in Telford and Wrekin plus 24 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Telford and Wrekin history map for you to explore.”