Welcome to Visit Spotland Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Spotland
Visit Spotland places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Spotland places to visit. A unique way to experience Spotland’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Spotland as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Spotland Walkfo Preview The Rochdale ward name is Spotland and Falinge. The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 10,805. It lies on the River Spodden, and is the home of Spotland Stadium. Historically a part of Lancashire, Spotland was formerly its own township. When you visit Spotland, Walkfo brings Spotland places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Spotland Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Spotland
Visit Spotland – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 64 audio plaques & Spotland places for you to explore in the Spotland area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Spotland places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Spotland with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Spotland places with Walkfo Spotland to hear history at Spotland’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Spotland has 64 places to visit in our interactive Spotland 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 Spotland, 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 Spotland places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Spotland & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 64 audio facts unique to Spotland places in an interactive Spotland map you can explore.”
Walkfo Spotland tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Spotland
Best Spotland places to visit
Spotland has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Spotland’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Spotland’s information audio spots:
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”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rochdale Infirmary Rochdale Infirmary is an acute general hospital in Greater Manchester. It is managed by the Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
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 Spotland plaques
28 plaques hereSpotland has 28 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Spotland 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 Spotland using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Spotland plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Spotland audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Spotland allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Spotland’s 64 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Spotland freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Spotland Map App
Our visit Spotland map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Spotland & 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 Spotland tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Spotland centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Spotland area at LONG:-2.173114, LAT:53.618133.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Spotland, 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 Spotland / surrounding areas
● Kingsway Business Park ● Kingsway Business Park tram stop ● Belfield, Greater Manchester ● Athletic Grounds, Rochdale ● Newbold tram stop ● Balderstone, Greater Manchester ● Roch Valley Viaduct ● Stanney Brook ● Moss Brook ● Hey Brook ● River Beal ● Arkwright Mill, Rochdale ● Ash Brook ● Rochdale Branch Canal ● Number One Riverside ● St John the Baptist Church, Rochdale ● Rochdale Interchange ● Rochdale Town Centre tram stop ● St John the Baptist’s Church, Smallbridge ● Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale ● Buckley, Greater Manchester ● Rochdale (ancient parish) ● Rochdale Town Hall ● Smallbridge, Greater Manchester ● Rochdale Cenotaph ● Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers ● The Baum, Rochdale ● Rochdale Pioneers Museum ● County Borough of Rochdale ● Wardleworth
● Spodden Valley asbestos controversy ● Rochdale ● Touchstones Rochdale ● Rochdale Infirmary ● HM Prison Buckley Hall ● Buckley Hall ● Rochdale Castle ● Zen Internet ● Merefield Ground ● River Spodden ● St Edmund’s Church, Rochdale ● Nook Farm, Rochdale ● Healey, Greater Manchester ● Falinge Park ● Shawclough ● Healey Dell Viaduct ● Spotland Stadium ● Spotland ● Castleton Cricket Club Ground ● Taylor Park ● Sudden Brook ● Mars Mill, Castleton ● Castleton, Greater Manchester ● Tweedales & Smalley ● Springfield Park (Rochdale) ● Rochdale Town F.C. ● Millers Brook ● Naden Brook ● Bamford, Greater Manchester ● Norden, Greater Manchester ● Greenbooth Reservoir ● Harp Mill, Castleton
Getting to / around Spotland – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Spotland using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Spotland places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Spotland Public Transport Stations
Spotland Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Wardleworth railway station
Rochdale railway station
Rochdale power station
Shawclough and Healey railway station
Broadley railway station
Castleton railway station
Heywood railway station
Milnrow Road
Baron Street drill hall, Rochdale
Drake Street tram stop
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Local Spotland historians & Spotland tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Spotland? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Spotland’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 Spotland 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 Spotland 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 Spotland 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-Spotland’ web pages (for example: www.visitSpotland.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 Spotland places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Spotland places to visit. A unique way to experience Spotland’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Spotland as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Spotland places with Walkfo Spotland to hear history at Spotland’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Spotland has 64 places to visit in our interactive Spotland 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 Spotland, 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 Spotland places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Spotland & the surrounding areas.
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Trying to encourage visitors to Spotland?