Welcome to Visit Burnden Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Burnden
Visit Burnden places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Burnden places to visit. A unique way to experience Burnden’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Burnden as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Burnden Walkfo Preview Burnden is a district in the town of Bolton in Greater Manchester. It is located about 1 mile (2 km) southeast of Bolton town centre. Historically a part of Lancashire, it derives its name from two Old English words: “burn” and “dene” which mean a brook flowing through a valley. For just over a hundred years, the home of Bolton Wanderers was the site of Burnden Park. When you visit Burnden, Walkfo brings Burnden places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Burnden Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Burnden
Visit Burnden – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 88 audio plaques & Burnden places for you to explore in the Burnden area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Burnden places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Burnden with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Burnden places with Walkfo Burnden to hear history at Burnden’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Burnden has 88 places to visit in our interactive Burnden map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Burnden, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Burnden places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Burnden & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 88 audio facts unique to Burnden places in an interactive Burnden map you can explore.”
Walkfo Burnden tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Burnden
Best Burnden places to visit
Burnden has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Burnden’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Burnden’s information audio spots:
Seven Acres Country Park, Bolton Seven Acres Country Park is a country park and Local Nature Reserve in Bolton, Greater Manchester. It lies between the areas of Tonge and Breightmet, and is dissected by Bradshaw Brook. The park is more than 300 years old and is depicted on maps dating back to 1764.
Eagley Brook Eagley Brook is a small river of Lancashire and Greater Manchester. It rises at the confluence of several smaller streams at Old Man’s Hill in the West Pennine Moors. The brook feeds Belmont Reservoir and passes the village of Belmont and collects several tributaries. It flows south, through Eagley near Bromley Cross, towards Astley Bridge, after which it joins Astley Brook to form the River Tonge.
Leverhulme Park Leverhulme Park is the largest park in the town of Bolton, Greater Manchester. It was donated to the people of Bolton by the late Lord Lord Leverhulmes. The park is now home to a community centre, an athletics stadium and five-a-side football pitches.
Nob End Nob End is the site of a former waste tip near Little Lever and Kearsley, in Greater Manchester. It is now a Site of Special Scientific Interest and Local Nature Reserve.
Moses Gate Country Park Moses Gate Country Park, part of which is also known as Crompton Lodges, is a 750 acre (300 hectare) site situated at Moses Gate in the Croal and Irwell Valleys. It is a Local Nature Reserve.
Kearsley Mill Kearsley Mill is a 240,000 sq ft (22,000 m), late period cotton mill located in the small village of Prestolee, Greater Manchester. A near complete example of Edwardian mill architecture, the building functions as headquarters for a number of businesses.
Ladyshore Colliery Ladyshore Colliery, originally named Back o’ th Barn, was situated on the Irwell Valley fault on the Manchester Coalfield in Little Lever, Lancashire. Founded by Thomas Fletcher Senior, the colliery opened in the 1830s and mined several types of coal.
Lever Bank Bleach Works Lever Bank Bleach Works was a Bleach Works at Ladyshore, near Little Lever, Bolton. The works was owned by Thomas Ridgway & Sons. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair would appear to be a direct descendant of this family.
Municipal Borough of Farnworth Municipal Borough of Farnworth was an unparished area of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester. A local board of health had been established for Farnworth in 1863, which was reconstituted as an urban district in 1899 and granted a charter of incorporation in 1939.
Raikes Park Greyhound Stadium Raikes Park Greyhound Stadium was a greyhound racing track in Bolton, Greater Manchester in north-west England. It is not to be confused with the Westhoughton Greyhound Track, which was another greyhound track in nearby West Houghton.
Visit Burnden plaques
12 plaques hereBurnden has 12 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Burnden plaques audio map when visiting. Plaques like National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide visual geo-markers to highlight points-of-interest at the places where they happened – and Walkfo’s AI has researched additional, deeper content when you visit Burnden using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Burnden plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Burnden audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Burnden allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Burnden’s 88 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Burnden freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Burnden Map App
Our visit Burnden map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Burnden & surrounding areas using the Walkfo digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has plaque, building, street or area information on history, culture or tourism.
You can set your Walkfo’s Burnden tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Burnden centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Burnden area at LONG:-2.412723, LAT:53.563932.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Burnden, go to your App Store to search for “Walkfo” or follow a links below and install on your mobile phone. Walkfo is designed for use with headphones or AirPods, so you can walk & explore whilst learning about the things around you without digital distraction.
Things to do & visit in Burnden / surrounding areas
● Seven Acres Country Park, Bolton ● Eagley Brook ● Astley Brook ● Breightmet ● Tonge, Bolton ● Church of All Souls, Bolton ● Leverhulme Park ● St Matthew’s Church, Little Lever ● Nob End ● Moses Gate Country Park ● Prestolee Aqueduct ● Little Lever Urban District ● Little Lever ● River Croal ● St John the Evangelist’s Church, Farnworth ● Farnworth Town Hall ● Kearsley Mill ● Moses Gate ● Ladyshore Colliery ● Lever Bank Bleach Works ● Prestolee ● Darcy Lever ● River Tonge ● The Shakespeare, Farnworth ● Bradley Fold ● Stoneclough ● Kearsley Urban District ● Bolton WtE ● Municipal Borough of Farnworth ● Burnden
● St Stephen and All Martyrs’ Church, Lever Bridge ● Bradshaw Brook ● Ainsworth Mill, Breightmet ● Raikes Park Greyhound Stadium ● Century Mill, Farnworth ● Burnden Park ● Burnden Park disaster ● Bolton TIC ● Plodder Lane engine shed ● Sayers (bakery) ● Bolton Interchange ● Holy Trinity Church, Bolton ● St Patrick’s Church, Bolton ● St Peter’s Church, Bolton ● Great Lever ● Derby Barracks, Bolton ● Bolton Rural District ● Bolton ● Metropolitan Borough of Bolton ● Octagon Theatre, Bolton ● Ye Olde Man & Scythe ● Bolton Town Hall ● Storming of Bolton ● Bolton Museum ● 96.5 Bolton FM ● University of Bolton ● Top Storey Club ● County Borough of Bolton ● Bolton Market Hall ● Church of St George, Bolton ● Swan Lane Mills ● Bolton Lads and Girls Club ● Royal Bolton Hospital ● Bolton Royal Infirmary ● Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Bolton ● Bolton Union Mill, Bolton ● Queen’s Park, Bolton ● Pike’s Lane ● Darul Uloom Bolton ● Little Hulton ● Little Hulton (ward) ● St Paul’s Church, Peel ● Walkden North ● Blackleach Country Park ● Middle Hulton ● St Mary the Virgin’s Church, Deane ● Deane, Greater Manchester ● Heaton, Greater Manchester ● St Margaret’s Church, Halliwell ● Bolton Steam Museum ● St Thomas’ Church, Halliwell ● Halliwell, Greater Manchester ● Farnworth ● Fred Dibnah ● Harper Green ● Little Bolton Town Hall
Getting to / around Burnden – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Burnden using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Burnden places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Burnden Public Transport Stations
Burnden Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Hall i’ th’ Wood railway station
Bolton power stations
Farnworth railway station
Moses Gate railway station
Bradley Fold railway station
Kearsley railway station
Darcy Lever railway station
Plodder Lane railway station
Bolton bus station
Bolton Crook Street railway station
Bolton Great Moor Street railway station
Daubhill railway station
Rumworth and Daubhill railway station
Little Hulton railway station
Bank Street Unitarian Chapel
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Local Burnden historians & Burnden tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Burnden? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Burnden’s places, attractions & landmarks ability to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & using our simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. – Creating a new audio experience for your Burnden place is free* and quick (15+ minutes if you prepare text content) to use, with Walkfo Creator doing the hard work of generating AI audio files for geo-spots from the text you provide with a simply click on a map. – The 100 Amazing Burnden Places is just one example of an outdoor museum created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) for people to safely explore during Covid-19 times whilst visiting a city. Our tool is open to tourism organisations, travel destinations & National Trust locations to create their own audio walks to offer free when people visit Burnden destinations. – Walkfo itself is looking to partner with websites offering things-to-do / what’s on events listings to enhance the content of our ‘visit-Burnden’ web pages (for example: www.visitBurnden.com). If you are interested in partnering, please contact us to discuss options.
* Walkfo Creator is free to use for a limited number of audio spots within a map with a license fee applicable when more than 20 audio spots within location walk are created. v1.1336
Visit Burnden places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Burnden places to visit. A unique way to experience Burnden’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Burnden as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Burnden places with Walkfo Burnden to hear history at Burnden’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Burnden has 88 places to visit in our interactive Burnden map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Burnden, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Burnden places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Burnden & the surrounding areas.
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Trying to encourage visitors to Burnden?