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.
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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.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 46 audio facts unique to Chickenley places in an interactive Chickenley map you can explore.”
Walkfo: Visit Chickenley Places Map
46 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
Chickenley historic spots | Chickenley tourist destinations | Chickenley plaques | Chickenley geographic features |
| 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
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here Chickenley 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.
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