Visit Highbury Places

Welcome to Visit Highbury Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Highbury

  

Highbury Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Highbury

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Highbury geography / climate

Highbury is situated 4.4 miles north of Charing Cross. Area is approximately 500 acres (2.0 km) Its area is about 500 acres.

You can visit Highbury places with Walkfo Highbury to hear history at Highbury’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Highbury has 962 places to visit in our interactive Highbury 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 Highbury, 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 Highbury places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Highbury & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 962 audio facts unique to Highbury places in an interactive Highbury map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Highbury Places Map
962 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo Highbury tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Highbury

  

Best Highbury places to visit

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Highbury has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Highbury’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Highbury’s information audio spots:

King Edward Street, London King Edward Street runs from Newgate Street to Little Britain in the north . It is joined by Greyfriars Passage in the west and Angel Street in the east . Postman’s Park is on its east side where Bull and Mouth Street once lay .

Holborn Viaduct power station Holborn Viaduct power station was the world’s first coal-fired power station generating electricity for public use . It was built by Thomas Edison’s Edison Electric Light Company .

Bull and Mouth Inn The Bull and Mouth Inn was a coaching inn in the City of London from 1666 . It was once an important arrival and departure point for coaches from all over Britain . It became the Queen’s Hotel in 1830 but was demolished in 1887 or 1888 .

Bull and Mouth Street Bull and Mouth Street was a street in the City of London that ran between Edward Street (Hall Lane) and St Martin’s Le Grand . On part of its site stands Postman’s Park .

Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice The Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice is a public monument in Postman’s Park in the City of London . It was first proposed by painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts in 1887, to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria . The memorial was unveiled in an unfinished state in 1900, consisting of a 50-foot (15 m) wooden loggia designed by Ernest George .

St. Martin’s Le Grand St. Martin’s Le Grand is a former liberty within the City of London . It is the name of a street north of Newgate Street and Cheapside and south of Aldersgate Street .

Smithfield Poultry Market Smithfield Poultry Market was constructed in 1961–1963 to replace a Victorian market building in Smithfield, London, which was destroyed by fire in 1958 . Its roof is claimed to be the largest concrete shell structure ever built, and largest clear spanning dome roof in Europe .

Fann Street Foundry The Fann Street Foundry was a type foundry (a company that designs or distributes typefaces) located in City of London .

80 Coleman Street 80 Coleman Street is an Edwardian building in the Moorgate area of the City of London . It was used for the offices of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology .

St John Clerkenwell St John Clerkenwell is a square, light-brick resurrection of the small Priory church . The church site retains a crypt and has been given over to the London chapel of the modern Order of St John .

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