Welcome to Visit Carcroft Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Carcroft
Visit Carcroft places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Carcroft places to visit. A unique way to experience Carcroft’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Carcroft as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Carcroft is a rural village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire. At the time of the 2011 Census the village fell within the ward of Adwick in the Doncaster MBC. When you visit Carcroft, Walkfo brings Carcroft places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Carcroft Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Carcroft
Visit Carcroft – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 22 audio plaques & Carcroft places for you to explore in the Carcroft area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Carcroft places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Carcroft history
Bullcroft Colliery operated from 1912 until 1970 when it was merged underground with nearby Brodsworth Colliery. The viability of reopening this coal face has been under investigation. No moves to restore mining in the area have been made.
Carcroft geography / climate
Much of Carcroft is made up of former council housing estates (most of which had been colliery company housing) The furniture retailer DFS also began here as Northern Upholstery. The village had a library until it was closed down in 2012 during the cutbacks imposed by the government.
Why visit Carcroft with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Carcroft places with Walkfo Carcroft to hear history at Carcroft’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Carcroft has 22 places to visit in our interactive Carcroft 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 Carcroft, 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 Carcroft places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Carcroft & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 22 audio facts unique to Carcroft places in an interactive Carcroft map you can explore.”
Walkfo: Visit Carcroft Places Map
22 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
Carcroft historic spots | Carcroft tourist destinations | Carcroft plaques | Carcroft geographic features |
| Walkfo Carcroft tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Carcroft | |||
Best Carcroft places to visit
Carcroft has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Carcroft’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Carcroft’s information audio spots:
Woodlands, South Yorkshire
Woodlands is a model village 3 miles (5 km) north of Doncaster in South Yorkshire. The colliery village was designed and built in the early 20th century by architect Percy Houfton as tied cottages for the miners of the neighbouring Brodsworth Colliery.
Visit Carcroft plaques
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plaques
here Carcroft has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Carcroft 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 Carcroft using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Carcroft plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
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