Welcome to Visit Tantany Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Tantany
Visit Tantany places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Tantany places to visit. A unique way to experience Tantany’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Tantany as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Tantany Walkfo Preview Tantany is a residential area of West Bromwich . It is situated to the north of the town centre . It consists predominantly of council housing constructed during the 1920s . When you visit Tantany, Walkfo brings Tantany places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Tantany Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Tantany
Visit Tantany – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 86 audio plaques & Tantany places for you to explore in the Tantany area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Tantany places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Tantany history
It was West Bromwich’s first council housing development when the first houses were built there in 1920. The first homes were built on the site in the 1920s. It was the first council-built housing development in the city’s history.
Why visit Tantany with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Tantany places with Walkfo Tantany to hear history at Tantany’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Tantany has 86 places to visit in our interactive Tantany 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 Tantany, 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 Tantany places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Tantany & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Tantany tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Tantany
Best Tantany places to visit
Tantany has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Tantany’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Tantany’s information audio spots:
Charlemont and Grove Vale Charlemont with Grove Vale is a political ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, in the English Midlands constituency of West Bromwich East . The ward population as taken at the 2011 census was 11,964 .
Sandwell Sandwell is a metropolitan borough of the West Midlands county in England . The borough is named after the Sandwell Priory and spans a densely populated part of the Midlands conurbation . At the 2011 census, the borough had a population of 309,000 and an area of 86 square kilometres (33 sq mi) In 2019 Sandwell was ranked 12th most deprived of England’s 317 boroughs .
West Midlands conurbation The West Midlands conurbation includes the cities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton and the towns of Sutton Coldfield, Dudley, Walsall, West Bromwich, Solihull, Stourbridge and Halesowen. According to the 2011 Census the area had a population of 2,440,986, making it the third most populated in the United Kingdom behind the Greater London and Greater Manchester Built Up Areas. Not to be confused with the region or metropolitan county of the same name.
Portway Hill Portway Hill is part of the Rowley Hills, near Rowley Regis in West Midlands. It is the site of a nature reserve of the Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country.
Swan Village Gas Works Swan Village Gas Works, is a historical manufacturing plant in the United Kingdom for the production of coal gas. The works are situated in Swan Village, a part of West Bromwich in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell. Parts of the works are still in operation today as part of the National Grid.
Sheepwash Urban Park Sheepwash Urban Park is a Local Nature Reserve (LNR) situated in Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, in the West Midlands conurbation of the United Kingdom. It forms part of the Black Country Urban Forest.
Black Lake Tunnel Black Lake Tunnel is a 412-yard railway tunnel on the West Bromwich and Wednesbury border, in England. The tunnel is located on the west-east border between the West and West-east Bromwich border. It is the longest tunnel in the world.
Horseley Ironworks Horseley Ironworks (sometimes spelled Horsley) was a major ironworks in the Tipton area in Staffordshire, now the West Midlands, England.
Oldbury United F.C. Oldbury United Football Club is a football club representing Oldbury, West Midlands, England. They are currently members of the Birmingham & District League Division Four.
Sandwell Valley RSPB reserve Sandwell Valley RSPB reserve (grid reference SP017913) is a nature reserve to the north of West Bromwich, in the Sandwell borough of West Midlands in England. It is adjacent to, and shares its main lake with, Sandwell Valley Country Park and near the settlement of Hamstead.
Visit Tantany plaques
16 plaques hereTantany has 16 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Tantany 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 Tantany using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Tantany plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Tantany audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Tantany allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Tantany’s 86 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Tantany freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Tantany Map App
Our visit Tantany map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Tantany & 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 Tantany tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Tantany centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Tantany area at LONG:-1.997, LAT:52.526.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Tantany, 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 Tantany / surrounding areas
● Smethwick Junction (canal) ● Engine Arm Aqueduct ● Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company ● Guru Nanak Gurdwara Smethwick ● Galton Valley Canal Heritage Centre ● 2013 Smethwick fire ● The Hawthorns ● New Square, West Bromwich ● The Public, West Bromwich ● West Bromwich Central tram stop ● Stoney Lane ● Health Futures UTC ● Tantany ● Sandwell General Hospital ● Trinity Way tram stop ● Oak House, West Bromwich ● Lyng, West Midlands ● St Andrew’s Church, West Bromwich ● Sandwell Valley ● Langley Maltings ● Galton Junction ● West Smethwick Park ● Galton Bridge ● Smethwick Junction ● Summit Bridge, Smethwick ● Ruskin Pottery ● County Borough of Warley ● Kenrick Park tram stop ● Chance Brothers ● Titford Canal
● Bescot Yard ● Friar Park, West Midlands ● West Bromwich Manor House ● Stone Cross, West Midlands ● Wednesbury Museum and Art Gallery ● The Phoenix Collegiate ● Hateley Heath ● Rushall Canal ● Rushall Junction ● Charlemont and Grove Vale ● Stewart Aqueduct ● Spon Lane Locks Branch ● Spon Lane Junction ● Bromford Junction ● Oldbury, West Midlands ● Sandwell ● Oldbury Athletic F.C. ● West Midlands conurbation ● Portway Hill ● Shri Venkateswara (Balaji) Temple ● Gower Branch Canal ● Greets Green ● Wednesbury Old Canal ● Swan Village ● Swan Village Gas Works ● Black Lake tram stop ● Ridgacre Branch ● Sheepwash Urban Park ● Black Lake Tunnel ● Great Bridge, West Midlands ● Galton Village ● Horseley Ironworks ● Ocker Hill Power Station ● Oldbury United F.C. ● Smethwick F.C. ● Tame Valley Junction ● Tividale Quays ● Patent Shaft ● Sandwell Valley RSPB reserve ● Forge Mill Lake ● Tame Valley Canal ● Sandwell Valley Country Park ● Mortuary Chapel, Handsworth Cemetery ● Sandwell Hall ● Sandwell Priory ● Ocker Hill ● Wednesbury Parkway tram stop ● West Bromwich ● Tividale F.C. ● Bishop Asbury Cottage ● Municipal Buildings, Oldbury ● Wednesbury Town Hall ● Bust of Phil Lynott ● Lions of the Great War
Getting to / around Tantany – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Tantany using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Tantany places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Tantany Public Transport Stations
Tantany Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Handsworth and Smethwick railway station
The Hawthorns station
Smethwick Rolfe Street railway station
West Bromwich bus station
West Bromwich railway station
Langley Green railway station
Smethwick Galton Bridge railway station
Smethwick West railway station
Rood End railway station
Spon Lane railway station
Tame Bridge Parkway railway station
Wednesbury bus station
Wednesbury Town railway station
Wednesbury Central railway station
Oldbury railway station
Sandwell and Dudley railway station
Albion railway station (England)
Swan Village railway station
Great Bridge South railway station
Great Bridge North railway station
Dudley Port railway station
Newton Road railway station
Lodge Road West Bromwich Town Hall tram stop
Dartmouth Street tram stop
Wednesbury Great Western Street tram stop
Dudley Street Guns Village tram stop
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Local Tantany historians & Tantany tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Tantany? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Tantany’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 Tantany 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 Tantany 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 Tantany 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-Tantany’ web pages (for example: www.visitTantany.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