Welcome to Visit Kirkheaton Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Kirkheaton
Visit Kirkheaton places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Kirkheaton places to visit. A unique way to experience Kirkheaton’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Kirkheaton as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Kirkheaton Walkfo Preview Kirkheaton is a village 3 miles (5 km) north east of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Historically, it is part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is in Dalton ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees. When you visit Kirkheaton, Walkfo brings Kirkheaton places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Kirkheaton Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Kirkheaton
Visit Kirkheaton – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 56 audio plaques & Kirkheaton places for you to explore in the Kirkheaton area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Kirkheaton places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Kirkheaton with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Kirkheaton places with Walkfo Kirkheaton to hear history at Kirkheaton’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Kirkheaton has 56 places to visit in our interactive Kirkheaton 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 Kirkheaton, 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 Kirkheaton places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Kirkheaton & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo Kirkheaton tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Kirkheaton
Best Kirkheaton places to visit
Kirkheaton has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Kirkheaton’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Kirkheaton’s information audio spots:
The Mirfield Free Grammar The Mirfield Free Grammar (also known as the MFG) and sixth form is a secondary school in the town of Mirfield, West Yorkshire. Patrick Stewart was a student at the school and opened the school as an academy in September 2011. The school has undergone major renovations, completed by September 2014.
Fartown, Huddersfield Fartown is a district of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England that starts 0.6 miles (1 km) north of the town centre. The district area stretches from the top of Woodhouse Hill to the Halifax Old Road with a population of 4,735 according to the 2001 Census. The area has a multi-ethnic population with a significant percentage hailing from South Asian and West Indian backgrounds.
Rugby League Heritage Centre The Rugby League Heritage Centre was formerly located in the basement of the George Hotel, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. It was the brainchild of Sky Sports presenter and former Great Britain international Mike Stephenson.
St Patrick’s Church, Huddersfield St Patrick’s Church is a Roman Catholic church in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Built in 1832 for use as a parish church, it was designed by Joseph Kaye, an architect from Bradford. It is situated on the junction between New North Road and Castlegate in the centre of the town.
Kingsgate, Huddersfield The Kingsgate Shopping Centre is a shopping centre in Huddersfield. It opened in February 2002 after 12 years of planning and delays. The £50m pound complex took 18 months to complete and contains over 40 stores.
Lawrence Batley Theatre The Lawrence Batley Theatre is a theatre in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. It was originally built in 1819 as a Methodist chapel, called the Queen Street Chapel. The chief mason was Joseph Kaye, who was also responsible for the station. In 1973 the building was converted into an arts centre but serious structural problems were discovered by Kirklees Metropolitan Council in 1975. In 1989 the Kirkless Theatre Trust was given the go ahead to save the building from deterioration.
Huddersfield Town Hall Huddersfield Town Hall is a municipal facility in West Yorkshire, West Yorkshire. It is a Grade II listed building. The town hall is located in the city centre.
Woodsome Hall Woodsome Hall is a 16th-century country house in the parish of Almondbury, near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Built in the Elizabethan era as a hall house, it evolved in stages in the possession of several generations of the local Kaye family. The main hall range is built in two storeys with gabled forward projecting wings and a two storey gabled porch.
Kirkheaton Kirkheaton is a village 3 miles (5 km) north east of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Historically, it is part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is in Dalton ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees.
Lepton, West Yorkshire Lepton is 4.25 miles (7 km) to the east of, and 120 metres (390 ft) above, the town centre directly north of Lepton Great Wood. In 1931 the parish had a population of 3323.
Visit Kirkheaton plaques
7 plaques hereKirkheaton has 7 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Kirkheaton 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 Kirkheaton using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Kirkheaton plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Kirkheaton audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Kirkheaton allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Kirkheaton’s 56 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Kirkheaton freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Kirkheaton Map App
Our visit Kirkheaton map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Kirkheaton & 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 Kirkheaton tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Kirkheaton centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Kirkheaton area at LONG:-1.729, LAT:53.6552.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Kirkheaton, 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 Kirkheaton / surrounding areas
● Mirfield ● Holly Bank Trust ● Mirfield Show ● The Mirfield Free Grammar ● Ledgard Bridge ● Battyeford ● River Colne, West Yorkshire ● Colne Bridge ● Huddersfield Broad Canal ● Kirklees EfW ● Fartown, Huddersfield ● Kirklees Stadium ● Pennine Radio Limited ● Huddersfield factory fire ● St Mark’s Church, Huddersfield ● Huddersfield Media Centre project ● Huddersfield sidings ● Turnbridge Lift Bridge ● Rugby League Heritage Centre ● Rugby Football League Hall of Fame ● George Hotel, Huddersfield ● St Patrick’s Church, Huddersfield ● Turnbridge ● Sheepridge, Huddersfield ● Kingsgate, Huddersfield ● Rawthorpe ● Lawrence Batley Theatre ● Huddersfield Art Gallery ● Brackenhall ● Huddersfield Town Hall
● University of Huddersfield ● Aspley, Huddersfield ● Moldgreen ● Deighton, Huddersfield ● Tolson Museum ● Lowerhouses ● Dalton, Huddersfield ● Kirkwood Hospice ● Bradley, Huddersfield ● Longley, Huddersfield ● Almondbury ● South Pennines ● Woodsome Hall ● Waterloo, Huddersfield ● Gawthorpe, Kirklees ● Kirkheaton ● Lepton, West Yorkshire ● Whitley Beaumont ● Colne Bridge Mill ● Fartown Ground ● Huddersfield Town A.F.C. ● Netherhall Learning Campus ● Huddersfield ● Robin Hood’s Grave
Getting to / around Kirkheaton – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Kirkheaton using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Kirkheaton places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Kirkheaton Public Transport Stations
Kirkheaton Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Battyeford railway station
Mirfield railway station
Cooper Bridge railway station
Huddersfield power station
Huddersfield bus station
Deighton railway station
Bradley railway station
Kirkheaton railway station
Huddersfield railway station
Heaton Lodge railway station
Leeds Road
Beaumont Street Studios
St Paul’s Street drill hall, Huddersfield
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Local Kirkheaton historians & Kirkheaton tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Kirkheaton? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Kirkheaton’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 Kirkheaton 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 Kirkheaton 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 Kirkheaton 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-Kirkheaton’ web pages (for example: www.visitKirkheaton.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
Visit Kirkheaton places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Kirkheaton places to visit. A unique way to experience Kirkheaton’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Kirkheaton as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
With 56 audio plaques & Kirkheaton places for you to explore in the Kirkheaton area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Kirkheaton places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
You can visit Kirkheaton places with Walkfo Kirkheaton to hear history at Kirkheaton’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Kirkheaton has 56 places to visit in our interactive Kirkheaton 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 Kirkheaton, 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 Kirkheaton places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Kirkheaton & the surrounding areas.
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Trying to encourage visitors to Kirkheaton?