Welcome to Visit Euxton Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Euxton
Visit Euxton places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Euxton places to visit. A unique way to experience Euxton’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Euxton as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Euxton Walkfo Preview Euxton is a village and civil parish of the Borough of Chorley, in Lancashire. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 census was 9,993. The village is made up of several areas including Runshaw Moor, Balshaw, Shaw Green, Daisy Hill, Buckshaw, Pincock, Primrose Hill, Glead Hill, Dawbers, Spout Hillock and Pear Tree. When you visit Euxton, Walkfo brings Euxton places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Euxton Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Euxton
Visit Euxton – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 44 audio plaques & Euxton places for you to explore in the Euxton area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Euxton places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Euxton history
Euxton’s original village settlement in Pincock was based near the ford over the River Yarrow, along the route of the old Roman road Watling Street – now the A49 road – that runs through the length of the village. The name suggests an Anglo-Saxon origin, with “tun” referring to a farmstead and Efe being a personal name and the later addition of burgh suggesting the settlement had grown and been fortified.
Why visit Euxton with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Euxton places with Walkfo Euxton to hear history at Euxton’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Euxton has 44 places to visit in our interactive Euxton 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 Euxton, 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 Euxton places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Euxton & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Euxton tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Euxton
Best Euxton places to visit
Euxton has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Euxton’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Euxton’s information audio spots:
Charnock Richard F.C. Charnock Richard Football Club is a football club based near Chorley, Lancashire. They are currently members of the North West Counties League Premier Division and play at Mossie Park.
Mavis Mill Mavis Mill was built in 1908 alongside the Coppull Ring Mill, which still survives under a change of use to an enterprise centre. The mill was taken over by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in the 1930s, but was subsequently demolished to make a car park.
Coppull Mill Coppull Mill is a former cotton spinning mill in Chorley, Lancashire. It was opened in 1906, and its sister mill, Mavis Mill in 1908. Together they employed 700 workers. The mill was taken over by the Lincashire Cotton Corporation in the 1930s and passed to Courtaulds in 1964.
Knightmare (Camelot) Knightmare was a custom roller coaster at the now defunct Camelot Theme Park in Chorley, Lancashire, United Kingdom. It was built by Zierer and designed by Anton Schwarzkopf.
Buckshaw Hall Buckshaw Hall is a grade II* listed 17th-century country house in Buckshaw Village, Euxton, some 3 miles (4.8 km) north-west of Chorley, England.
Euxton Parish Church Euxton Parish Church is an active parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn and the archdeaconry of Blackburn. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
Buckshaw Village Buckshaw Village is one of the largest urban development sites in the North West of England with a population of about 4,000. The new development is taking place on the former site of the Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF) Chorley, which was requisitioned by the War Office in the 1930s.
Pestalozzi International Village Pestalozzi International Foundation is an educational charitable organisation based in East Sussex, England. The foundation is based in the East Sussex borough of East Sussex.
Chorley and South Ribble Hospital The hospital is situated on Euxton lane in Chorley close to junction 8 of the M61. It is managed by Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Chorley Town Hall Chorley Town Hall is a municipal building in Market Street in Chorly, Lancashire, England. It is located in the centre of Market Street.
Visit Euxton plaques
0 plaques hereEuxton has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Euxton 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 Euxton using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Euxton plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Euxton audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Euxton allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Euxton’s 44 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Euxton freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Euxton Map App
Our visit Euxton map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Euxton & 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 Euxton tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Euxton centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Euxton area at LONG:-2.674, LAT:53.662.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Euxton, 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 Euxton / surrounding areas
● Worden Park ● Leyland, Lancashire ● St Andrew’s Church, Leyland ● County Ground (Leyland) ● British Commercial Vehicle Museum ● Runshaw Hall ● Charnock Richard F.C. ● Charnock Richard ● Mavis Mill ● Coppull Mill ● Charnock Richard MSA ● River Chor ● Camelot Theme Park ● Knightmare (Camelot) ● Bolton Green ● Victory Park (Chorley) ● Buckshaw Hall ● Euxton Parish Church ● ROF Chorley ● Buckshaw Village ● Euxton ● Euxton Hall Chapel ● Leyland Hundred ● Chorley Rural District ● Pestalozzi International Village ● Shaw Hill ● Astley Village ● Astley Hall, Chorley ● Chorley and South Ribble Hospital ● Clayton-le-Woods
● Lucas Green, Lancashire ● Preston England Temple ● Chorley Town Hall ● St Laurence’s Church, Chorley ● Borough of Chorley ● Chorley ● Municipal Borough of Chorley ● St George’s Church, Chorley ● Chorley Interchange ● Ulnes Walton ● Eccleston, Lancashire ● Whittle-le-Woods
Getting to / around Euxton – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Euxton using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Euxton places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Euxton Public Transport Stations
Euxton Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Buckshaw Parkway railway station
Euxton Balshaw Lane railway station
Chorley railway station
Euxton railway station, L&Y
Euxton railway station, L&NW
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Local Euxton historians & Euxton tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Euxton? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Euxton’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 Euxton 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 Euxton 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 Euxton 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-Euxton’ web pages (for example: www.visitEuxton.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