Welcome to Visit Sharston Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Sharston
Visit Sharston places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Sharston places to visit. A unique way to experience Sharston’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Sharston as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Sharston Walkfo Preview When you visit Sharston, Walkfo brings Sharston places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Sharston Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Sharston
Visit Sharston – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 90 audio plaques & Sharston places for you to explore in the Sharston area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Sharston places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Sharston history
Sharston Industrial Estate was built in the 1920s on former farming land. The estate was initially mostly industrial, with a post office, a dairy, a Bisto factory and various other businesses.
Sharston Hall
Sharston Hall was the home of the Worthington and Egerton families for generations before being sold to Manchester Local Authority in 1926 . The hall was no longer tenanted after 1970 and quickly fell into disrepair . By 1983 the building had partially collapsed with some masonry from the roof falling onto Altrincham Road . It was eventually demolished a couple of years later .
Why visit Sharston with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Sharston places with Walkfo Sharston to hear history at Sharston’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Sharston has 90 places to visit in our interactive Sharston 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 Sharston, 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 Sharston places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Sharston & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Sharston tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Sharston
Best Sharston places to visit
Sharston has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Sharston’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Sharston’s information audio spots:
Southern Cemetery, Manchester Southern Cemetery is a large municipal cemetery in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England . It opened in 1879 and is owned and administered by Manchester City Council . It is the second largest cemetery in Europe and the largest in the UK .
Cheadle Heath Nomads F.C. Cheadle Heath Nomads Football Club was formed in 2004–05 season from a merger of two local clubs. They are currently members of the North West Counties League Division One South and play at the Proseal Stadium.
Park Road Stadium Park Road Stadium is the home ground of North West Counties Football League club Cheadle Town F.C. It has a capacity of 2,000 people, with 100 seated.
Heaton Mersey Heaton Mersey is a mostly residential area and commuter zone for Manchester. It is situated on the north-western border of Stockport, adjacent to Didsbury and Burnage in Manchester. Heaton Norris, Heaton Chapel and Heaton Moor are collectively known as the Four Heatons.
Parrs Wood Parrs Wood is an area of East Didsbury, in south Manchester, England. It was formerly the estate surrounding Parrrs Wood House, an 18th-century Georgian villa. Today the area incorporates part of Wilmslow Road and is home to a Tesco supermarket.
Wythenshawe Park Wythenshawe Park is a Green Flag awarded park covering 270 acres. The park features woodland, bedding, grassland and meadows, sporting facilities, a community farm and a horticulture centre.
Northern Moor Northern Moor is west of Northenden and east of Sale, 5 miles south of Manchester city centre. The Tatton family lived at from 1540 to 1926 Wythenshawe Hall, which is in Northern Moor. Until the early 1900s Northern Moor was part of Cheshire, before Manchester expanded south of the River Mersey.
Wythenshawe Town F.C. Wythenshawe Town Football Club is a football club based in Manchester. They are currently members of the North West Counties League Premier Division and play at Ericstan Stadium.
Didsbury East (ward) Didsbury East is an area and electoral ward of Manchester. It is represented in Westminster by Jeff Smith MP for Manchester Withington. The 2011 Census recorded a population of 14,333.
St Paul’s Methodist Church, Didsbury St Paul’s Methodist Church is a former Methodist church in Didsbury, Manchester. The building was designed by the architect H.H. Vale as a church for the nearby Wesleyan Theological Institution and opened in 1877. It is recorded in the National Heritage List as a designated Grade II listed building.
Visit Sharston plaques
11 plaques hereSharston has 11 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Sharston 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 Sharston using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Sharston plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Sharston audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Sharston allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Sharston’s 90 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Sharston freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Sharston Map App
Our visit Sharston map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Sharston & 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 Sharston tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Sharston centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Sharston area at LONG:-2.2488, LAT:53.3935.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Sharston, 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 Sharston / surrounding areas
● Peel Hall, Wythenshawe ● Crossacres tram stop ● Peel Hall tram stop ● Wythenshawe Town Centre tram stop ● Northen Etchells ● Benchill tram stop ● William Temple Memorial Church, Wythenshawe ● Wythenshawe FM ● Heald Green ● Wythenshawe Amateurs F.C. ● Benchill ● Woodhouse Park ● Gatley ● Sharston Hall ● Sharston ● Menorah Synagogue ● Woodhouse Park tram stop ● Stockport Etchells ● Shadowmoss tram stop ● British European Airways Flight 411 ● Haveley tram stop ● Cheadle Royal Hospital ● Cheadle and Gatley Urban District ● 1951 Ringway Dakota crash ● Wythenshawe Bus Garage ● Together Trust ● Rose Hill, Northenden ● Newall Green ● Micker Brook ● Barnes Hospital, Cheadle
● Old Bedians ● Martinscroft tram stop ● St Mary’s Church, Cheadle ● Cheadle Lower Mill ● Alexandra Hospital (Cheadle) ● Baguley ● Cheadle Bulkeley ● Cheadle, Greater Manchester ● Ladybrook Valley ● Davenport Green tram stop ● Newall Green tram stop ● Wythenshawe Hospital tram stop ● Church of St Wilfrid, Northenden ● Roundthorn tram stop ● Southern Cemetery, Manchester ● Barlow Hall ● Christ Church, West Didsbury ● Merseybank ● Withington Community Hospital ● Didsbury Mosque ● Cheadle Heath Nomads F.C. ● Cheadle Town F.C. ● Abney Hall ● Heaton Mersey ● Parrs Wood House ● East Didsbury tram stop ● Parrs Wood ● Shirley Institute ● University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust ● Northenden ● Wythenshawe Park ● Wythenshawe Hall ● Wythenshawe Hospital ● Wythenshawe community farm ● Baguley tram stop ● Northern Moor ● Manchester Interchange ● Wythenshawe Town F.C. ● Manchester (Wythenshawe) Aerodrome ● Church of St Michael and All Angels, Northenden ● Church of St Nicholas, Burnage ● Capitol Theatre, Manchester ● Didsbury East (ward) ● Didsbury Village tram stop ● Didsbury Campus ● St Paul’s Methodist Church, Didsbury ● Fletcher Moss Botanical Garden ● Church of St James, Didsbury ● Didsbury ● West Didsbury tram stop ● Northern Lawn Tennis Club ● Didsbury West (ward) ● Northern Moor tram stop ● Wythenshawe Park tram stop ● Fletcher Moss Rangers F.C. ● Wythenshawe ● Baguley Hall ● The Towers (Manchester)
Getting to / around Sharston – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Sharston using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Sharston places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Sharston Public Transport Stations
Sharston Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Wythenshawe bus station
Heald Green railway station
Gatley railway station
Northenden railway station
Manchester Airport station
Cheadle railway station (London and North Western Railway)
Withington and West Didsbury railway station
Heaton Mersey railway station
Cheadle North railway station
East Didsbury railway station
Didsbury railway station
Burnage railway station
Robinswood Road tram stop
Burton Road tram stop
Park Road Stadium
Moor Road tram stop
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Local Sharston historians & Sharston tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Sharston? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Sharston’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 Sharston 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 Sharston 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 Sharston 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-Sharston’ web pages (for example: www.visitSharston.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