Welcome to Visit Woolton Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Woolton
Visit Woolton places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Woolton places to visit. A unique way to experience Woolton’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Woolton as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Woolton Walkfo Preview Woolton (locally /ˈwuːltən/; WUHL-ton) is an affluent suburb of Liverpool, southeast of the city. At the 2011 Census, the population was 12,921. When you visit Woolton, Walkfo brings Woolton places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Woolton Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Woolton
Visit Woolton – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 79 audio plaques & Woolton places for you to explore in the Woolton area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Woolton places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Woolton landmarks
Mendips (251 Menlove Avenue) Mendips is located in Woolton Village Cross. Woolton Old School St Peter’s Church, Woolton Hall and Woolton Woods and Camphill are located in the village.
Why visit Woolton with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Woolton places with Walkfo Woolton to hear history at Woolton’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Woolton has 79 places to visit in our interactive Woolton 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 Woolton, 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 Woolton places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Woolton & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Woolton tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Woolton
Best Woolton places to visit
Woolton has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Woolton’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Woolton’s information audio spots:
ROC Post Speke ROC Post Speke is a nuclear monitoring post in Speke, Liverpool built during the Cold War. It was operational between 1959 and 1968. It has the distinction of being the only post of its type in Merseyside.
St Mary’s Church, Grassendale St Mary’s Church is in Grassendale, a district of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Liverpool South Childwall, the archdeaconry of Liverpool and the diocese of Liverpool. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
St Austin’s Church, Grassendale St Austin’s Church is a redundant Roman Catholic church in the parish of St Wilfrid’s and the Archdiocese of Liverpool. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
Woolton Hall Woolton Hall is a former country house located in Woolton, a suburb of Liverpool. Built in 1704 and extensively renovated in 1772 by architect Robert Adam, the building is praised as the finest example of Adam’s work in the North of England. During the 20th century, the hall went through a number of uses, eventually becoming a school in the 1950s, and later being abandoned with plans for its demolition.
St Barnabas’ Church, Mossley Hill St Barnabas’ Church is in Smithdown Place, Mossley Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside. It stands at the junction of Allerton Road, Smithdown Road, and Penny Lane. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Liverpool South Childwall, the archdeaconry of Liverpool and the diocese of Liverpool.
Our Lady of the Annunciation Church, Liverpool Our Lady of the Annunciation Church is a Catholic parish church next to Bishop Eton Monastery in Childwall, Liverpool. It was built from 1857 to 1858 by the Redemptorists and was designed by E. W. Pugin.
IM Marsh Campus IM Marsh Campus is a former university campus in south Liverpool. It was, until 2021, home to the School of Education, Leisure and Sport Studies and School of Teacher Education and Professional Learning of Liverpool John Moores University.
Northern Party The Northern Party was founded by Michael Dawson and former Blackpool MP Harold Elletson in March 2015 to contest five marginal seats in Lancashire. Members included former activists from the Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat and Green parties.
Mossley Hill (ward) Mossley Hill is a Liverpool City Council ward in the Liverpool Riverside Parliamentary constituency. It was formed for the 2004 municipal elections from the former Grassendale and Aigburth wards.
Calderstones Park Calderstones Park is a public park in Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom. The 126 acres (0.51 km) park is mainly a family park. There is a lake in the park with geese and ducks, and the Calderstones Mansion House.
Visit Woolton plaques
7 plaques hereWoolton has 7 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Woolton 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 Woolton using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Woolton plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Woolton audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Woolton allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Woolton’s 79 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Woolton freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Woolton Map App
Our visit Woolton map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Woolton & 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 Woolton tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Woolton centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Woolton area at LONG:-2.865, LAT:53.374.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Woolton, 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 Woolton / surrounding areas
● Childwall (ward) ● Wavertree Windmill ● Speke-Garston (ward) ● Speke and Garston Coastal Reserve ● Crowne Plaza Liverpool John Lennon Airport Hotel ● New Mersey Shopping Park ● Mersey Match Factory ● ROC Post Speke ● Prescot South (ward) ● Allerton and Hunts Cross (ward) ● Garston, Liverpool ● Allerton TMD ● Hunts Cross chord ● Allerton Junction ● St Michael’s Church, Garston ● Allerton Cemetery ● All Saints Church, Speke ● Allerton Hall ● Port of Garston ● Clarke’s Gardens ● Old Dock, Garston ● Stalbridge Dock ● Hunt’s Cross ● North Dock, Garston ● Allerton Tower Park ● Littlewoods ● Allerton Priory ● Woolton Woods and Camp Hill ● Allerton, Liverpool ● St Mary’s Church, Grassendale
● St Austin’s Church, Grassendale ● Woolton Hall ● Allerton Golf Club House ● Cressington (ward) ● Halewood ● St Barnabas’ Church, Mossley Hill ● Greenbank (ward) ● Church (Liverpool ward) ● Penny Lane, Liverpool ● Dovedale Baptist Church, Liverpool ● Our Lady of the Annunciation Church, Liverpool ● All Saints’ Church, Childwall ● Court Hey Hall ● Childwall ● Church of All Hallows, Allerton ● Mossley Hill ● Aigburth Cricket Ground, Liverpool ● Stanlawe Grange ● IM Marsh Campus ● Northern Party ● Church of St Matthew and St James, Mossley Hill ● Carnatic Hall ● Mossley Hill (ward) ● Calderstones House ● Calderstones Park ● Bluecoat Press ● Allerton Oak ● 251 Menlove Avenue ● Strawberry Field ● Bowring Park, Merseyside ● Bowring Park, Knowsley ● Belle Vale, Liverpool ● Belle Vale (ward) ● Belle Vale Park ● St Stephen’s Church, Gateacre ● Gateacre ● Reynolds Park ● Netherley, Liverpool ● Woolton (ward) ● Woolton ● Woolton Picture House ● St Peter’s Church, Woolton, Liverpool ● St Mary’s Church, Woolton ● Finch Farm ● Halewood Body & Assembly ● Grassendale ● Sudley House
Getting to / around Woolton – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Woolton using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Woolton places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Woolton Public Transport Stations
Woolton Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Liverpool South Parkway railway station
Allerton railway station
Garston railway station (Merseyside)
Church Road Garston railway station
Garston Dock railway station
Speke railway station
Hunts Cross railway station
Cressington railway station
Childwall railway station
West Allerton railway station
Gateacre railway station
Halewood railway station
Mossley Hill railway station
20 Forthlin Road
A562 road
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Local Woolton historians & Woolton tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Woolton? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Woolton’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 Woolton 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 Woolton 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 Woolton 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-Woolton’ web pages (for example: www.visitWoolton.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