Welcome to Visit Rumworth Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Rumworth
Visit Rumworth places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Rumworth places to visit. A unique way to experience Rumworth’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Rumworth as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Rumworth Walkfo Preview Rumworth is an electoral ward of Bolton, in Greater Manchester. The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 16,250. Historically it was part of the hundred of Salford in Lancashire and centre of the Parish of Deane. When you visit Rumworth, Walkfo brings Rumworth places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Rumworth Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Rumworth
Visit Rumworth – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 58 audio plaques & Rumworth places for you to explore in the Rumworth area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Rumworth places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Rumworth history
Rumworth was joined with Lostock as the third part of a knight’s fee in 1212, held by the lords of the manor of Manchester. Later the Andertons of Lostock claimed a manor in Rumworth where there were fourteen oxgangs of land. The manor was bought by the Hultons of Over Hulton and it descended in this family.
Rumworth geography / climate
Rumworth measured about 2½ miles from east to west and average breadth was a little over a mile, its area was 1,244 acres (5.03 km) The Church Brook flows down Deane Clough to join the River Croal which forms the northern boundary.
Why visit Rumworth with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Rumworth places with Walkfo Rumworth to hear history at Rumworth’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Rumworth has 58 places to visit in our interactive Rumworth 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 Rumworth, 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 Rumworth places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Rumworth & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Rumworth tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Rumworth
Best Rumworth places to visit
Rumworth has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Rumworth’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Rumworth’s information audio spots:
Holy Trinity Church, Bolton Holy Trinity Church, Bolton is a Grade II listed building. It was a Commissioners’ church, having received a grant towards its construction from the Church Building Commission.
St Patrick’s Church, Bolton St Patrick’s Church is a Roman Catholic Church in Bolton, Greater Manchester. It was built in 1861 and is a Gothic Revival style building. It is situated on the corner of Great Moor Street and Johnson Street.
Derby Barracks, Bolton Derby Barracks is a former military installation in Fletcher Street, Bolton, Greater Manchester. It is located in the centre of the city’s former military base.
Octagon Theatre, Bolton The Octagon Theatre is a producing theatre located in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It is located in the city of Bolton and is located on the outskirts of Manchester.
Bolton Town Hall Bolton Town Hall was built between 1866 and 1873 to designs by William Hill of Leeds and George Woodhouse of Bolton. The town hall was extended in the 1930s to the designs of Bradshaw, Gass and Hope. It has been designated a Grade II* listed building by English Heritage.
Bolton Market Hall Bolton Market Hall is a listed building in Bolton, Greater Manchester. The market hall and its integral ground-floor shops on Bridge Street, Corporation Street and Knowsley Street are included in the English Heritage listing.
Swan Lane Mills Swan Lane Mills is a former cotton mill complex in Bolton, Greater Manchester. All three mills were designed by Stott and Sons of Oldham. The double mill (Nos. 1 and 2) was the largest spinning mill in the world.
Royal Bolton Hospital The Royal Bolton Hospital is an acute general hospital in Farnworth, Greater Manchester. It is managed by the Bolton NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital is in the centre of Farnworth in Greater Manchester and Farnworth.
Bolton Royal Infirmary The Bolton Royal Infirmary was an acute general hospital in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It was a hospital in Chorley Street, Bolton.
Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Bolton Shree Kutch Satsang Swaminarayan Temple (Bolton) is a three storied three-story building. The original structure was demolished and rebuilt in 1993. The temple was officially opened in 1973 and opened in 1975.
Visit Rumworth plaques
12 plaques hereRumworth has 12 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Rumworth 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 Rumworth using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Rumworth plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Rumworth audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Rumworth allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Rumworth’s 58 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Rumworth freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Rumworth Map App
Our visit Rumworth map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Rumworth & 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 Rumworth tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Rumworth centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Rumworth area at LONG:-2.483, LAT:53.568.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Rumworth, 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 Rumworth / surrounding areas
● Middlebrook, Greater Manchester ● University of Bolton Stadium ● Lostock Hall Gatehouse ● Bolton Arena ● High Rid Reservoir ● Lostock, Bolton ● Wingates ● Lostock Junction Mills ● Sayers (bakery) ● Bolton Interchange ● Holy Trinity Church, Bolton ● St Patrick’s Church, Bolton ● Great Lever ● Derby Barracks, Bolton ● Bolton ● Metropolitan Borough of Bolton ● Octagon Theatre, Bolton ● Ye Olde Man & Scythe ● Bolton Town Hall ● Storming of Bolton ● Bolton Museum ● 96.5 Bolton FM ● University of Bolton ● Top Storey Club ● County Borough of Bolton ● Bolton Market Hall ● Church of St George, Bolton ● Swan Lane Mills ● Bolton Lads and Girls Club ● Royal Bolton Hospital
● Bolton Royal Infirmary ● Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Bolton ● Bolton Union Mill, Bolton ● Queen’s Park, Bolton ● Pike’s Lane ● Darul Uloom Bolton ● Middle Hulton ● St Mary the Virgin’s Church, Deane ● Deane, Greater Manchester ● Over Hulton ● Rumworth ● Rumworth Lodge Reservoir ● Heaton, Greater Manchester ● St Margaret’s Church, Halliwell ● Bolton Steam Museum ● Pretoria Pit disaster ● St Thomas’ Church, Halliwell ● Westhoughton Town Hall ● Westhoughton Mill ● Westhoughton Urban District ● Westhoughton ● Barrow Bridge, Bolton ● Moss Bank Park, Bolton ● Doffcocker ● Markland Hill ● Halliwell, Greater Manchester
Getting to / around Rumworth – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Rumworth using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Rumworth places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Rumworth Public Transport Stations
Rumworth Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Lostock Lane railway station
Horwich Parkway railway station
Lostock railway station
Chew Moor railway station
Westhoughton railway station
Bolton bus station
Bolton Crook Street railway station
Bolton Great Moor Street railway station
Daubhill railway station
Rumworth and Daubhill railway station
Chequerbent railway station
Chequerbent railway station (Bolton and Leigh Railway)
Hag Fold railway station
Daisy Hill railway station
Bank Street Unitarian Chapel
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Local Rumworth historians & Rumworth tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Rumworth? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Rumworth’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 Rumworth 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 Rumworth 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 Rumworth 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-Rumworth’ web pages (for example: www.visitRumworth.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