Explore Wakefield Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Wakefield plaques & local Wakefield 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 Wakefield.
About Wakefield
Wakefield is a cathedral city and the administrative centre of the City of Wakefield district in West Yorkshire . The city is on the River Calder at the eastern edge of the Pennines . It was the county town of the West Riding of Yorkshire and was the seat of West Riding County Council from 1889 until 1974 when the county and council were abolished .
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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 Wakefield 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 Wakefield plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Wakefield’s physical Wakefield 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 Wakefield the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Wakefield plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 50 unique history facts in Wakefield plus 41 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Wakefield history map for you to explore.”