Welcome to Visit Prestolee Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Prestolee
Visit Prestolee places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Prestolee places to visit. A unique way to experience Prestolee’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Prestolee as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Prestolee Walkfo Preview Prestolee is a small village in Kearsley, within the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, in Greater Manchester. It lies on the River Irwell and is effectively an island, with the river to the north, west and south and the Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal to the northeast. It has a church that was used by Coronation Street as a venue for many weddings and known to fans as All Saints’ Church, Weatherfield. When you visit Prestolee, Walkfo brings Prestolee places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Prestolee Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Prestolee
Visit Prestolee – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 68 audio plaques & Prestolee places for you to explore in the Prestolee area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Prestolee places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Prestolee with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Prestolee places with Walkfo Prestolee to hear history at Prestolee’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Prestolee has 68 places to visit in our interactive Prestolee 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 Prestolee, 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 Prestolee places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Prestolee & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo Prestolee tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Prestolee
Best Prestolee places to visit
Prestolee has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Prestolee’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Prestolee’s information audio spots:
Leverhulme Park Leverhulme Park is the largest park in the town of Bolton, Greater Manchester. It was donated to the people of Bolton by the late Lord Lord Leverhulmes. The park is now home to a community centre, an athletics stadium and five-a-side football pitches.
Nob End Nob End is the site of a former waste tip near Little Lever and Kearsley, in Greater Manchester. It is now a Site of Special Scientific Interest and Local Nature Reserve.
Moses Gate Country Park Moses Gate Country Park, part of which is also known as Crompton Lodges, is a 750 acre (300 hectare) site situated at Moses Gate in the Croal and Irwell Valleys. It is a Local Nature Reserve.
Kearsley Mill Kearsley Mill is a 240,000 sq ft (22,000 m), late period cotton mill located in the small village of Prestolee, Greater Manchester. A near complete example of Edwardian mill architecture, the building functions as headquarters for a number of businesses.
Ladyshore Colliery Ladyshore Colliery, originally named Back o’ th Barn, was situated on the Irwell Valley fault on the Manchester Coalfield in Little Lever, Lancashire. Founded by Thomas Fletcher Senior, the colliery opened in the 1830s and mined several types of coal.
Lever Bank Bleach Works Lever Bank Bleach Works was a Bleach Works at Ladyshore, near Little Lever, Bolton. The works was owned by Thomas Ridgway & Sons. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair would appear to be a direct descendant of this family.
Municipal Borough of Farnworth Municipal Borough of Farnworth was an unparished area of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester. A local board of health had been established for Farnworth in 1863, which was reconstituted as an urban district in 1899 and granted a charter of incorporation in 1939.
Raikes Park Greyhound Stadium Raikes Park Greyhound Stadium was a greyhound racing track in Bolton, Greater Manchester in north-west England. It is not to be confused with the Westhoughton Greyhound Track, which was another greyhound track in nearby West Houghton.
Walkden South Walkden South is an area and electoral ward of Salford, England. It is represented in Westminster by Barbara Keeley MP for Worsley and Eccles South.
Walkden North Walkden North is an area and electoral ward of Salford, England. It is represented in Westminster by Barbara Keeley MP for Worsley and Eccles South.
Visit Prestolee plaques
4 plaques herePrestolee has 4 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Prestolee 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 Prestolee using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Prestolee plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Prestolee audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Prestolee allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Prestolee’s 68 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Prestolee freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Prestolee Map App
Our visit Prestolee map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Prestolee & 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 Prestolee tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Prestolee centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Prestolee area at LONG:-2.37, LAT:53.547.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Prestolee, 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 Prestolee / surrounding areas
● Roe Green ● Breightmet ● Leverhulme Park ● St Matthew’s Church, Little Lever ● Nob End ● Moses Gate Country Park ● Prestolee Aqueduct ● Little Lever Urban District ● Little Lever ● River Croal ● St John the Evangelist’s Church, Farnworth ● Farnworth Town Hall ● Kearsley Mill ● Moses Gate ● Ladyshore Colliery ● Lever Bank Bleach Works ● Prestolee ● Darcy Lever ● River Tonge ● The Shakespeare, Farnworth ● Bradley Fold ● Stoneclough ● Kearsley Urban District ● Bolton WtE ● Municipal Borough of Farnworth ● Burnden ● St Stephen and All Martyrs’ Church, Lever Bridge ● Bradshaw Brook ● Ainsworth Mill, Breightmet ● Raikes Park Greyhound Stadium
● Ringley Old Bridge ● St Saviour’s Church, Ringley ● Century Mill, Farnworth ● Burnden Park ● Burnden Park disaster ● Ringley ● Kearsley Power Station ● Bolton TIC ● Radcliffe Power Station ● Bury A.F.C. ● Radcliffe F.C. ● Plodder Lane engine shed ● Stand, Greater Manchester ● Walkden South ● Ellesmere Colliery ● Walkden ● Little Hulton ● Sandhole Colliery ● Linnyshaw ● Walkden North ● Blackleach Country Park ● Wilton Mill, Radcliffe ● Outwood Viaduct ● Radcliffe tram stop ● Wet Earth Colliery ● Radcliffe, Greater Manchester ● Clifton Country Park ● Swinton North (ward) ● Wardley, Greater Manchester ● Wardley Hall ● Linnyshaw Colliery ● Kearsley ● Radcliffe Town Hall ● Farnworth ● Outwood Colliery ● Harper Green
Getting to / around Prestolee – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Prestolee using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Prestolee places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Prestolee Public Transport Stations
Prestolee Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Farnworth railway station
Moses Gate railway station
Bradley Fold railway station
Kearsley railway station
Darcy Lever railway station
Plodder Lane railway station
Ringley Road railway station
Walkden Low Level railway station
Walkden railway station
Little Hulton railway station
Molyneux Brow railway station
Radcliffe bus station
Radcliffe Bridge railway station
Dixon Fold railway station
Ainsworth Road Halt railway station
Radcliffe Black Lane railway station
Moorside railway station
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Local Prestolee historians & Prestolee tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Prestolee? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Prestolee’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 Prestolee 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 Prestolee 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 Prestolee 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-Prestolee’ web pages (for example: www.visitPrestolee.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 Prestolee places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Prestolee places to visit. A unique way to experience Prestolee’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Prestolee as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Prestolee places with Walkfo Prestolee to hear history at Prestolee’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Prestolee has 68 places to visit in our interactive Prestolee 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 Prestolee, 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 Prestolee places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Prestolee & the surrounding areas.
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Trying to encourage visitors to Prestolee?