Welcome to Visit Shawclough Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Shawclough


Visit Shawclough PlacesVisit Shawclough places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Shawclough places to visit. A unique way to experience Shawclough’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Shawclough as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.

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Shawclough is a mainly residential area to the north of Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Housing is mixed but predominantly owned semi-detached and detached 3-4 bedroom houses. Industry in the area is low level, though manufacturing did take place at the Turner Brothers Asbestos Company in the near vicinity. When you visit Shawclough, Walkfo brings Shawclough places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

Shawclough Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Shawclough


Visit Shawclough – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit

Shawclough photo With 62 audio plaques & Shawclough places for you to explore in the Shawclough area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Shawclough places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

Why visit Shawclough with Walkfo Travel Guide App?


Visit Shawclough PlacesYou can visit Shawclough places with Walkfo Shawclough to hear history at Shawclough’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Shawclough has 62 places to visit in our interactive Shawclough 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 Shawclough, 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 Shawclough places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Shawclough & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 62 audio facts unique to Shawclough places in an interactive Shawclough map you can explore.”

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62 tourist, history, culture & geography spots


 

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Walkfo Shawclough tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Shawclough

  

Best Shawclough places to visit


Shawclough has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Shawclough’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Shawclough’s information audio spots:

Shawclough photo Stanney Brook
Stanney Brook originates in the Burnedge area of Shaw and Crompton. It flows through Milnrow into Rochdale before joining the River Roch at Newbold Brow. Its name derives from the Lancashire dialect word “stanner”
Shawclough photo Hey Brook
Hey Brook is a watercourse in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. It originates at the confluence of Buckley Brook and Syke Brook. It flows through Wardleworth to the River Roch.
Shawclough photo St John the Baptist Church, Rochdale
St John the Baptist Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. It was founded in 1830, and built in 1927. It is situated on the corner of Maclure Road and Dowling Street.
Shawclough photo Rochdale (ancient parish)
Rochdale was an ecclesiastical parish of early-medieval origin in northern England. At its zenith, it occupied 58,620 acres (237 km) of land amongst the South Pennines. It straddled the historic county boundary between Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Shawclough photo Rochdale Town Hall
Victorian-era municipal building in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, was built in 1871. Built in Gothic Revival style at a cost of £160,000 (£15 million in 2021) It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade I listed building. It functions as the ceremonial headquarters of the Metropolitan Borough Council and houses local government departments.
Shawclough photo Rochdale Pioneers Museum
The Rochdale Pioneers Museum is housed in the building where the Equitable Pioneers Society started trading on 21 December 1844. The museum includes a recreation of the original shop, containing its rudimentary furniture, scales, items that were sold at the store, etc.
Shawclough photo Spodden Valley asbestos controversy
72 acres (290,000 m) of land in Spodden Valley in Rochdale, England, formerly used by Turner Brothers Asbestos Company. Site of world’s largest asbestos textile factory was sold to MMC Estates, a property developer. MMC submitted a planning application to build an “urban village” consisting of 650 homes, a children’s daycare centre and a business park on the site. However, asbestos containing materials were abundantly visible on the ground, and local residents claimed that there were numerous asbestos dumping sites across the area.
Shawclough photo Touchstones Rochdale
Touchstones Rochdale is an art gallery, museum, local studies centre, visitor information centre and café. The first part of the building was opened as a library in 1884 with the museum and gallery being added in 1903 and extended in 1913. It became an art and heritage centre in 2003.
Shawclough photo Rochdale Infirmary
Rochdale Infirmary is an acute general hospital in Greater Manchester. It is managed by the Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Shawclough photo HM Prison Buckley Hall
Buckley Hall Prison is a Category C male prison in the Buckley district of Rochdale in North West England. It is operated by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service.

Visit Shawclough plaques


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Shawclough has 28 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Shawclough 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 Shawclough using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Shawclough plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.