Welcome to Visit Holmfield Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Holmfield
Visit Holmfield places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Holmfield places to visit. A unique way to experience Holmfield’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Holmfield as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Holmfield is an area of Halifax in West Yorkshire, England, 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the town centre. It was developed in the 19th century after a mill was built on Strines Beck in the township of Ovenden in the ancient parish of Halifax. When you visit Holmfield, Walkfo brings Holmfield places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Holmfield Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Holmfield
Visit Holmfield – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 47 audio plaques & Holmfield places for you to explore in the Holmfield area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Holmfield places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Holmfield with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Holmfield places with Walkfo Holmfield to hear history at Holmfield’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Holmfield has 47 places to visit in our interactive Holmfield 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 Holmfield, 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 Holmfield places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Holmfield & the surrounding areas.
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47 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
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Best Holmfield places to visit
Holmfield has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Holmfield’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Holmfield’s information audio spots:
Eureka! (museum)
Eureka! The National Children’s Museum is an interactive educational museum for children in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, with a focus on learning through play. It is run as an educational charity and not-for-profit organisation. Eureka! is based on the North American model of children’s museums, aimed at families with children aged 0–11 and encourages hands-on inter-generational learning.
Borough Market, Halifax
Borough Market is a Victorian covered market in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. The market occupies a town centre site between Southgate, Albion Street and Market Street. The glass and wrought iron covered marketplace, surrounded by stone built shops and accommodation, was built between 1891 and 1896 and opened by the future King George V and Queen Mary. The design included three public houses on the Market Street side and fishmongers’ shops on Albion Street with the remaining exterior shops all being butchers’ shops. The award-winning market is open six days a week with some 125 market stalls.
Wellesley Barracks
Wellesley Barracks is a military installation in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest military base in the UK and is located in the city of Halifax.
King Cross
King Cross is an ecclesiastical parish created in 1845 in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire. It is located along the top of a ridge above the town of Halifax. During the English Civil War, King Cross was a key outpost for the Parliamentarians.
St Mary’s Church, Halifax
St Mary’s Church or St Marie’s Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Halifax, West Yorkshire. It was built from 1836 to 1839. It is situated on the corner of Gibbet Street and Clarence Street, next to Burdock Way.
High Sunderland Hall
High Sunderland Hall was a manor house, built c. 1600 just outside Halifax, West Yorkshire. It was demolished in 1951 after falling into dereliction. The house is perhaps best known for having supposedly provided Emily Brontë with her description of Wuthering Heights.
Visit Holmfield plaques
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here Holmfield has 3 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Holmfield 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 Holmfield using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Holmfield plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.