Welcome to Visit Mossend Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Mossend
Visit Mossend places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Mossend places to visit. A unique way to experience Mossend’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Mossend as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Mossend Walkfo Preview Mossend is a small town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It formed around the steel industry, with Clydesdale Steel Works once dominating the east end of the town. The town is the site of a major railway freight terminal. When you visit Mossend, Walkfo brings Mossend places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Mossend Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Mossend
Visit Mossend – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 41 audio plaques & Mossend places for you to explore in the Mossend area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Mossend places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Mossend with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Mossend places with Walkfo Mossend to hear history at Mossend’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Mossend has 41 places to visit in our interactive Mossend 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 Mossend, 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 Mossend places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Mossend & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Mossend tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Mossend
Best Mossend places to visit
Mossend has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Mossend’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Mossend’s information audio spots:
Bothwellhaugh Roman Fort Bothwellhaugh Roman Fort is a site now located in Strathclyde Country Park in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is east of where the South Calder Water flows into Strathlde Loch. The fort is a scheduled monument.
Motherwell Town Hall Motherwell Town Hall is a municipal facility in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire. The town hall was the headquarters of the Burgh of Motherwell and Wishaw Council. It is a Category C listed building.
David Colville & Sons David Colville & Sons opened its Dalzell Steel and Iron Works at Motherwell in 1872. By the first World War, it was the largest steel works in Scotland. Nationalised in 1951, it became part of the Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain. It was privatised in 1955 and the construction of Ravenscraig steelworks resulted in the closure of its other works.
Calderbank Calderbank lies west of the M73 on the west bank of the North Calder Water. It lies 13 miles (21 km) east of Glasgow city centre and 34 miles (55 km) west of Edinburgh. It has a population of about 1,610.
Eurocentral Eurocentral is one of the largest industrial estates in Scotland. It is situated on the edge of Holytown and Mossend, North Lanarkshire, just off the M8 motorway, about 12 miles east of Glasgow city centre and 34 mi west of Edinburgh. The Maxim Office Park is a recent addition opening in March 2010.
Coathill Hospital Coathill Hospital is a health facility in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Lanarkshire.
Bellshill Maternity Hospital Bellshill Maternity Hospital was a health facility in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The hospital was a maternity hospital in the 1960s.
Newhouse Research Site The Newhouse Research Site is located near the M8 motorway in North Lanarkshire. It employs 250 scientists across a range of disciplines including medicinal chemistry, molecular biology and drug metabolism. It is currently the largest private drug discovery centre in Scotland.
Bellshill Central Parish church Bellshill Central Parish Church is a Parish church of the Church of Scotland. It serves around 70% of the North Lanarkshire town. It is within the Presbytery of Hamilton.
Visit Mossend plaques
1 plaques hereMossend has 1 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Mossend 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 Mossend using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Mossend plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Mossend audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Mossend allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Mossend’s 41 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Mossend freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Mossend Map App
Our visit Mossend map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Mossend & 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 Mossend tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Mossend centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Mossend area at LONG:-4.0081, LAT:55.8203.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Mossend, 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 Mossend / surrounding areas
● Bothwellhaugh Roman Fort ● Strathclyde Country Park ● Bothwellhaugh ● North Motherwell ● South Calder Water ● Caledonian Braves F.C. ● North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre ● Motherwell Shopping Centre ● Motherwell Town Hall ● David Colville & Sons ● Roman Catholic Diocese of Motherwell ● Motherwell Cathedral ● Motherwell TMD ● Jerviston ● Forgewood ● Greenlink Cycle Path ● Viewpark ● Thorniewood United F.C. ● Carnbroe ● Meadow Park, Coatbridge ● Calderbank ● Eurocentral ● Whifflet ● Coathill Hospital ● Bellshill Maternity Hospital ● Newhouse Research Site ● Bellshill Athletic F.C. ● Mossend ● Bellshill Central Parish church ● Bellshill
● New Stevenston ● Sir Matt Busby Sports Complex ● Carfin ● Carfin Grotto ● Bothwell services ● Kirklands Hospital ● Monkland Canal ● Holytown ● Mossend EuroTerminal
Getting to / around Mossend – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Mossend using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Mossend places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Mossend Public Transport Stations
Mossend Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Motherwell railway station
Fallside railway station
Whifflet railway station
Bellshill railway station
Holytown railway station
Bellshill (NBR) railway station
Carfin railway station
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Local Mossend historians & Mossend tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Mossend? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Mossend’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 Mossend 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 Mossend 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 Mossend 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-Mossend’ web pages (for example: www.visitMossend.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