Explore Throckley Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Throckley plaques & local Throckley 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 Throckley.
About Throckley
Throckley is a village located in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England, approximately 7 miles (11 km) west of Newcastle city centre. Hadrian’s Wall passed through the village, its course traced by the village’s main road, Hexham Road. The village is expanding with many new housing estates popping up since the mid 2000s. It also offers a supermarket, car shop, a range of hair salons, social clubs, three care homes for the elderly, two churches, a solarium, funeral parlour, working men’s club, an optometrist, medical surgery, and a Masonic hall.
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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 Throckley 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 Throckley plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Throckley’s physical Throckley 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 Throckley the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Throckley plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 36 unique history facts in Throckley plus 3 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Throckley history map for you to explore.”