Welcome to Visit Soothill Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Soothill
Visit Soothill places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Soothill places to visit. A unique way to experience Soothill’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Soothill as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Soothill Walkfo Preview Soothill is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northeast from the town of Dewsbury and directly north of Hanging Heaton. The name derives from the Old English word “sot” and means a place where wood was burnt. The village was on the Great Northern Railway’s Leeds to Batley branch line. When you visit Soothill, Walkfo brings Soothill places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Soothill Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Soothill
Visit Soothill – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 42 audio plaques & Soothill places for you to explore in the Soothill area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Soothill places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Soothill with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Soothill places with Walkfo Soothill to hear history at Soothill’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Soothill has 42 places to visit in our interactive Soothill 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 Soothill, 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 Soothill places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Soothill & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Soothill tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Soothill
Best Soothill places to visit
Soothill has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Soothill’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Soothill’s information audio spots:
Foxsons Mill, Staincliffe Foxsons Mill, Staincliffe was a doubling mill in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. It doubled yarns of count’s 4’s to 40’s. It was taken over by Lancashire Cotton Corporation in the 1930s and passed to Courtaulds in 1964.
HWD Hospital Radio HWD Hospital Radio broadcasts to patients and staff of Mid Yorkshire Trust hospitals. The station is registered as a charity with the Charity Commission for England and Wales, number 227515.
Birstall, West Yorkshire Birstall is a large village in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire. It is situated between Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield and Wakefield. The town is approximately 6 miles (10 km) south-west of Leeds and situated close to M62 motorway.
Batley Town Hall Batley Town Hall is a municipal facility in the Market Place in Batley, West Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building.
Dewsbury Dewsbury is a minster town within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees. It lies on the River Calder and an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Huddersfield and south of Leeds. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, after undergoing a period of major growth in the 19th century as a mill town.
Batley Batley is a market and mill town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire. In 2011 the population of Batley including Hanging Heaton, Staincliffe, Carlinghow and Birstall Smithies, Copley Hill and Howden Clough was 48,730.
Dewsbury bus station The bus station is situated in Dewsbury town centre next to Aldams Road (A638 road) and can be accessed there and from South Street. The station was rebuilt in 1994 with a main passenger concourse and 19 bus stands.
Trinity Church, Ossett The Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, more commonly known as Trinity Church, is the main Church of England parish church for the market town of Ossett, West Yorkshire. Located on a plateau some 300 feet (91 m) above sea level, the church’s 226 feet (69 m) high spire is a local landmark.
Visit Soothill plaques
6 plaques hereSoothill has 6 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Soothill 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 Soothill using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Soothill plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Soothill audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Soothill allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Soothill’s 42 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Soothill freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Soothill Map App
Our visit Soothill map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Soothill & 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 Soothill tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Soothill centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Soothill area at LONG:-1.617, LAT:53.713.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Soothill, 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 Soothill / surrounding areas
● Healey, Kirklees ● Dewsbury and District Hospital ● Foxsons Mill, Staincliffe ● HWD Hospital Radio ● Staincliffe ● Carlinghow ● Birstall, West Yorkshire ● Wilton Park, Batley ● Dewsbury Moor ● All Saints’ Church, Batley ● Batley Carr ● Mount Pleasant (cricket ground) ● Mount Pleasant, Batley ● Batley Town Hall ● Crow Nest Park ● Boothroyd, West Yorkshire ● West Yorkshire Built-up Area ● Upper Batley ● Dewsbury ● Batley ● Dewsbury Town Hall ● Dewsbury Minster ● Soothill ● Hanging Heaton ● Dewsbury and Savile Ground ● Morley War Memorial, Scatcherd Park ● Morley Town Hall ● Howley Hall ● Crown Flatt ● Woodkirk Priory
● Beggarington Hill ● Woodkirk ● Tingley ● Gawthorpe, Wakefield ● Chickenley ● Heckmondwike ● Murder of Jo Cox ● Markazi Masjid, Dewsbury ● Morley Tunnel ● Trinity Church, Ossett
Getting to / around Soothill – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Soothill using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Soothill places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Soothill Public Transport Stations
Soothill Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Heckmondwike Spen railway station
Birstall railway station (West Yorkshire)
Carlinghow railway station
Birstall Town railway station
Batley Carr railway station
Staincliffe and Batley Carr railway station
Dewsbury railway station
Batley railway station
Dewsbury Central railway station
Dewsbury Market Place railway station
Upper Batley railway station
Morley Top railway station
Howden Clough railway station
Tingley railway station
Chickenley Heath railway station
Earlsheaton railway station
Dewsbury bus station
Heckmondwike bus station
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Local Soothill historians & Soothill tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Soothill? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Soothill’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 Soothill 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 Soothill 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 Soothill 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-Soothill’ web pages (for example: www.visitSoothill.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