Welcome to Visit Darnhill Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Darnhill
Visit Darnhill places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Darnhill places to visit. A unique way to experience Darnhill’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Darnhill as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Darnhill (or Darn Hill as recorded by the Ordnance Survey) is an area of Heywood, a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester. It was chosen as the location for a planned overspill housing estate for Manchester, to allievate quality housing shortages in that city. The estate is no longer overseen by Manchester City Council, but by Guinness Trust Housing Association. When you visit Darnhill, Walkfo brings Darnhill places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Darnhill Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Darnhill
Visit Darnhill – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 55 audio plaques & Darnhill places for you to explore in the Darnhill area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Darnhill places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Darnhill history
The Darnhill Estate began construction in the early 1960s with the first family moving in in 1962. Eventually 5000 people moved to the estate, mainly from the Collyhurst and Miles Platting area of the city. In 1998, Manchester City Council transferred its interests in the estate to the Guinness Trust.
Darnhill geography / climate
Darn Hill is located in the southwestern part of Heywood, between the River Roch and East Lancs Railway. It is close to the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale’s boundary with Bury.
Why visit Darnhill with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Darnhill places with Walkfo Darnhill to hear history at Darnhill’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Darnhill has 55 places to visit in our interactive Darnhill 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 Darnhill, 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 Darnhill places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Darnhill & the surrounding areas.
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55 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
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Best Darnhill places to visit
Darnhill has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Darnhill’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Darnhill’s information audio spots:
Redvales
Redvales is a residential district to the south of Bury town centre in Greater Manchester. The population of the Bury Ward at the 2011 census was 11,483.
Millers Brook
Millers Brook is a watercourse in Greater Manchester. It originates in Heywood and flows through Queens Park to join the River Roch.
Naden Brook
Naden Brook is a watercourse in north west England. It rises in the hills above Norden, near the boundary of Lancashire and Greater Manchester. It flows south to Heywood, where it merges with the River Roch.
Municipal Borough of Heywood
The Municipal Borough of Heywood was, from 1881 to 1974, a local government district in the administrative county of Lancashire, England, with borough status and coterminate with the town.
Visit Darnhill plaques
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here Darnhill has 3 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Darnhill 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 Darnhill using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Darnhill plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
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