Explore Urmston Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Urmston plaques & local Urmston 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 Urmston.
About Urmston
Urmston covers an area of 4,799 acres (19 km) It is 5 miles (8 km) southwest of Manchester city centre. The town has early medieval origins, and until the arrival of the railway in 1873 was a small farming community.
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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 Urmston 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 Urmston plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Urmston’s physical Urmston 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 Urmston the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Urmston plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 44 unique history facts in Urmston plus 7 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Urmston history map for you to explore.”