Welcome to Visit Chickenley Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Chickenley
Visit Chickenley places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Chickenley places to visit. A unique way to experience Chickenley’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Chickenley as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Chickenley Walkfo Preview Chickenley is a suburban village in the Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire. It is part of Dewsbury after being originally a farming hamlet. The name could derive from a family name originating during early settlement, corrupted to ‘Chick’ When you visit Chickenley, Walkfo brings Chickenley places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Chickenley Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Chickenley
Visit Chickenley – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 46 audio plaques & Chickenley places for you to explore in the Chickenley area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Chickenley places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Chickenley with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Chickenley places with Walkfo Chickenley to hear history at Chickenley’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Chickenley has 46 places to visit in our interactive Chickenley 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 Chickenley, 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 Chickenley places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Chickenley & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Chickenley tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Chickenley
Best Chickenley places to visit
Chickenley has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Chickenley’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Chickenley’s information audio spots:
Foxsons Mill, Staincliffe Foxsons Mill, Staincliffe was a doubling mill in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. It doubled yarns of count’s 4’s to 40’s. It was taken over by Lancashire Cotton Corporation in the 1930s and passed to Courtaulds in 1964.
HWD Hospital Radio HWD Hospital Radio broadcasts to patients and staff of Mid Yorkshire Trust hospitals. The station is registered as a charity with the Charity Commission for England and Wales, number 227515.
Batley Town Hall Batley Town Hall is a municipal facility in the Market Place in Batley, West Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building.
Dewsbury Dewsbury is a minster town within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees. It lies on the River Calder and an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Huddersfield and south of Leeds. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, after undergoing a period of major growth in the 19th century as a mill town.
Batley Batley is a market and mill town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire. In 2011 the population of Batley including Hanging Heaton, Staincliffe, Carlinghow and Birstall Smithies, Copley Hill and Howden Clough was 48,730.
Thornhill power station The first generating station on the site was owned and operated by the Yorkshire Electric Power Company. Following nationalisation of the British electricity supply industry in 1948 Thornhill power station was operated by a succession of state owned bodies. The coal-fired steam station was decommissioned in 1982, and was subsequently demolished in 1998.
Ossett Town A.F.C. Ossett Town Association Football Club was an English football club based in Ossett in West Yorkshire. The club was based in the West Yorkshire town of Ossett.
Ossett United F.C. Ossett United Football Club is a football club based in Ossett, West Yorkshire. They are currently members of the Northern Premier League Division One East.
Ossett Albion A.F.C. Ossett Albion Association Football Club was an English football club. They played at Queen’s Terrace in Ossett, in West Yorkshire, more commonly known as Dimplewells.
Dewsbury bus station The bus station is situated in Dewsbury town centre next to Aldams Road (A638 road) and can be accessed there and from South Street. The station was rebuilt in 1994 with a main passenger concourse and 19 bus stands.
Visit Chickenley plaques
6 plaques hereChickenley has 6 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Chickenley 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 Chickenley using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Chickenley plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Chickenley audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Chickenley allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Chickenley’s 46 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Chickenley freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Chickenley Map App
Our visit Chickenley map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Chickenley & 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 Chickenley tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Chickenley centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Chickenley area at LONG:-1.6, LAT:53.688.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Chickenley, 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 Chickenley / surrounding areas
● Dewsbury and District Hospital ● Foxsons Mill, Staincliffe ● HWD Hospital Radio ● Staincliffe ● Dewsbury Moor ● All Saints’ Church, Batley ● Batley Carr ● Mount Pleasant (cricket ground) ● Mount Pleasant, Batley ● Batley Town Hall ● Crow Nest Park ● Boothroyd, West Yorkshire ● West Yorkshire Built-up Area ● Upper Batley ● Dewsbury ● Batley ● Dewsbury Town Hall ● Dewsbury Minster ● Soothill ● River Spen ● Hanging Heaton ● Dewsbury and Savile Ground ● Howley Hall ● Crown Flatt ● Woodkirk Priory ● Beggarington Hill ● Jaw Hill ● Gawthorpe, Wakefield ● Kirkhamgate ● Chickenley
● Ossett Town A.F.C. ● Ossett United F.C. ● Ossett Town Hall ● Ossett ● Ossett Albion A.F.C. ● Healey Mills Marshalling Yard ● Healey, Ossett ● Thornhill Hall ● Thornhill, West Yorkshire ● Overthorpe, West Yorkshire ● Thornhill Lees ● Markazi Masjid, Dewsbury ● Horbury Town Hall ● Trinity Church, Ossett
Getting to / around Chickenley – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Chickenley using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Chickenley places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Chickenley Public Transport Stations
Chickenley Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Batley Carr railway station
Staincliffe and Batley Carr railway station
Dewsbury railway station
Batley railway station
Ravensthorpe Lower railway station
Dewsbury Central railway station
Dewsbury Market Place railway station
Ravensthorpe railway station
Thornhill power station
Chickenley Heath railway station
Thornhill railway station
Flushdyke railway station
Ossett railway station
Ossett bus station
Horbury and Ossett railway station
Earlsheaton railway station
Dewsbury bus station
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Local Chickenley historians & Chickenley tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Chickenley? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Chickenley’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 Chickenley 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 Chickenley 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 Chickenley 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-Chickenley’ web pages (for example: www.visitChickenley.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