Explore Widnes Plaques in Blue Plaque, English Heritage, National Trust & local plaque schemes
Explore Widnes plaques & local Widnes 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 Widnes.
About Widnes
Widnes is an industrial town in the Borough of Halton, Cheshire, England, which at the 2011 census had a population of 61,464. Historically in Lancashire, it is on the northern bank of the River Mersey where the estuary narrows to form the Runcorn Gap. Upstream 8 miles (13 km) to the east is Warrington, and 4 miles downstream is Speke, a suburb of Liverpool. The town continues to be a major manufacturer of chemicals, although many of the chemical factories have closed and the economy is predominantly based upon service industries.
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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 Widnes 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 Widnes plaque schemes, English Heritage & National Trust. Walkfo improves on existing Widnes’s physical Widnes 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 Widnes the same way you might explore a museum or art gallery with information audio headset.
Widnes plaques & short history overview
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of history locations across the UK, with 51 unique history facts in Widnes plus 25 street plaques from official plaque schemes to form an interactive Widnes history map for you to explore.”