Welcome to Visit Styal Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Styal
Visit Styal places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Styal places to visit. A unique way to experience Styal’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Styal as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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When you visit Styal, Walkfo brings Styal places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Styal Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Styal
Visit Styal – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 45 audio plaques & Styal places for you to explore in the Styal area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Styal places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Styal history
Styal village grew during the early years of the Industrial Revolution when industrialist Samuel Greg built a cotton mill and textile factory, Quarry Bank Mill. The mill was situated on the bank of the River Bollin in order to use the water current to power the waterwheels.
Styal landmarks
Quarry Bank Mill and its village still stand today; the mill ceased operation as a working factory in 1959. It is now owned by National Trust who operate it as an industrial heritage museum.
Why visit Styal with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Styal places with Walkfo Styal to hear history at Styal’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Styal has 45 places to visit in our interactive Styal 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 Styal, 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 Styal places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Styal & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 45 audio facts unique to Styal places in an interactive Styal map you can explore.”
Walkfo: Visit Styal Places Map
45 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
Styal historic spots | Styal tourist destinations | Styal plaques | Styal geographic features |
Walkfo Styal tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Styal |
Best Styal places to visit
Styal has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Styal’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Styal’s information audio spots:
Cotterill Clough Nature Reserve
Cotterill Clough is a 5.6-hectare (14-acre) nature reserve near Manchester Airport. The reserve was purchased in 1934 by public subscription as a memorial to T. A. Coward. It is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south of Manchester city centre.
Styal Cottage Homes
Styal Cottage Homes were open from October 1898 to 1956 and housed destitute children from the Manchester area. They were established in Styal by the Chorlton Poor Law Union Board of Guardians who financed the project with a loan of £50,000 from Liverpool Corporation.
Visit Styal plaques
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plaques
here Styal has 3 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Styal 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 Styal using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Styal plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.