Welcome to Visit Astley Bridge Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Astley Bridge
Visit Astley Bridge places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Astley Bridge places to visit. A unique way to experience Astley Bridge’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Astley Bridge as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Astley Bridge Walkfo Preview Astley Bridge is 2.5 miles (4 km) north of Bolton town centre. It is 11.7 miles (19 km) south of Blackburn and 14.3 miles (23 km) northwest of Manchester. When you visit Astley Bridge, Walkfo brings Astley Bridge places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Visit Astley Bridge – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 68 audio plaques & Astley Bridge places for you to explore in the Astley Bridge area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Astley Bridge places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Astley Bridge history
Astley Bridge is the name of a large district in the modern Metropolitan Borough of Bolton. Prior to then it simply meant the bridge over Astley Brook which ran through the lower end of the township of Sharples. A Local Board of Health was constituted in 1864 and assumed extra duties as an urban sanitary district. It was replaced by an elected urban district council in 1895.
Why visit Astley Bridge with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Astley Bridge places with Walkfo Astley Bridge to hear history at Astley Bridge’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Astley Bridge has 68 places to visit in our interactive Astley Bridge 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 Astley Bridge, 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 Astley Bridge places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Astley Bridge & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo Astley Bridge tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Astley Bridge
Best Astley Bridge places to visit
Astley Bridge has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Astley Bridge’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Astley Bridge’s information audio spots:
Seven Acres Country Park, Bolton Seven Acres Country Park is a country park and Local Nature Reserve in Bolton, Greater Manchester. It lies between the areas of Tonge and Breightmet, and is dissected by Bradshaw Brook. The park is more than 300 years old and is depicted on maps dating back to 1764.
Eagley Brook Eagley Brook is a small river of Lancashire and Greater Manchester. It rises at the confluence of several smaller streams at Old Man’s Hill in the West Pennine Moors. The brook feeds Belmont Reservoir and passes the village of Belmont and collects several tributaries. It flows south, through Eagley near Bromley Cross, towards Astley Bridge, after which it joins Astley Brook to form the River Tonge.
Blair Hospital Blair Hospital was a health facility at Bromley Cross near Bolton, Greater Manchester. It was a very distinctive building, perhaps one of Bolton’s really well-known buildings.
Holy Trinity Church, Bolton Holy Trinity Church, Bolton is a Grade II listed building. It was a Commissioners’ church, having received a grant towards its construction from the Church Building Commission.
St Patrick’s Church, Bolton St Patrick’s Church is a Roman Catholic Church in Bolton, Greater Manchester. It was built in 1861 and is a Gothic Revival style building. It is situated on the corner of Great Moor Street and Johnson Street.
Octagon Theatre, Bolton The Octagon Theatre is a producing theatre located in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It is located in the city of Bolton and is located on the outskirts of Manchester.
Bolton Town Hall Bolton Town Hall was built between 1866 and 1873 to designs by William Hill of Leeds and George Woodhouse of Bolton. The town hall was extended in the 1930s to the designs of Bradshaw, Gass and Hope. It has been designated a Grade II* listed building by English Heritage.
Bolton Market Hall Bolton Market Hall is a listed building in Bolton, Greater Manchester. The market hall and its integral ground-floor shops on Bridge Street, Corporation Street and Knowsley Street are included in the English Heritage listing.
Bolton Royal Infirmary The Bolton Royal Infirmary was an acute general hospital in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It was a hospital in Chorley Street, Bolton.
Queen’s Park, Bolton Queen’s Park is a roughly circular 22 acres (8.9 ha) Victorian park lying on sloping ground to the north-west of Bolton town centre, in Greater Manchester. Opened as Bolton Park on 24 May 1866 by Lord Bradford it was renamed in 1897 in honour of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.
Visit Astley Bridge plaques
10 plaques hereAstley Bridge has 10 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Astley Bridge 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 Astley Bridge using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Astley Bridge plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Astley Bridge audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Astley Bridge allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Astley Bridge’s 68 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Astley Bridge freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Astley Bridge Map App
Our visit Astley Bridge map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Astley Bridge & 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 Astley Bridge tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Astley Bridge centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Astley Bridge area at LONG:-2.432214, LAT:53.608274.
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Things to do & visit in Astley Bridge / surrounding areas
● South Turton ● St Maxentius’ Church, Bradshaw ● Bradshaw, Greater Manchester ● Harwood, Greater Manchester ● Hall i’ th’ Wood ● Bromley Cross ● Seven Acres Country Park, Bolton ● Eagley Brook ● Astley Brook ● Astley Bridge Mill ● Eagley Mills ● Tonge, Bolton ● Sharples, Greater Manchester ● Astley Bridge ● Jumbles Reservoir ● Blair Hospital ● Church of All Souls, Bolton ● Cox Green, Greater Manchester ● Eagley ● Bolton Interchange ● Holy Trinity Church, Bolton ● St Patrick’s Church, Bolton ● St Peter’s Church, Bolton ● Bolton Rural District ● Bolton ● Metropolitan Borough of Bolton ● Octagon Theatre, Bolton ● Ye Olde Man & Scythe ● Bolton Town Hall ● Storming of Bolton
● Bolton Museum ● 96.5 Bolton FM ● University of Bolton ● Top Storey Club ● County Borough of Bolton ● Bolton Market Hall ● Church of St George, Bolton ● Bolton Lads and Girls Club ● Bolton Royal Infirmary ● Bolton Union Mill, Bolton ● Queen’s Park, Bolton ● Egerton, Greater Manchester ● Christ Church, Walmsley ● Eagley F.C. ● Horrocks Fold ● Cheetham Close ● Dingle Reservoir ● Turton Tower ● Turton Urban District ● Chapeltown, Lancashire ● Turton, Lancashire ● St Anne’s Church, Turton ● Smithills ● Dean Brook ● Heaton, Greater Manchester ● St Margaret’s Church, Halliwell ● Bolton Steam Museum ● St Thomas’ Church, Halliwell ● Barrow Bridge, Bolton ● Moss Bank Park, Bolton ● Doffcocker ● Halliwell, Greater Manchester ● Dean Mills Reservoir ● Fred Dibnah ● Smithills Hall ● Little Bolton Town Hall
Getting to / around Astley Bridge – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Astley Bridge using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Astley Bridge places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Astley Bridge Public Transport Stations
Astley Bridge Notable Streets & Road Destinations
The Oaks railway station
Hall i’ th’ Wood railway station
Bromley Cross railway station
Bolton power stations
Bolton bus station
Bolton Crook Street railway station
Bolton Great Moor Street railway station
Turton and Edgworth railway station
Bank Street Unitarian Chapel
A666 road
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Local Astley Bridge historians & Astley Bridge tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Astley Bridge? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Astley Bridge’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 Astley Bridge 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 Astley Bridge 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 Astley Bridge 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-Astley Bridge’ web pages (for example: www.visitAstley Bridge.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 Astley Bridge places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Astley Bridge places to visit. A unique way to experience Astley Bridge’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Astley Bridge as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Astley Bridge places with Walkfo Astley Bridge to hear history at Astley Bridge’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Astley Bridge has 68 places to visit in our interactive Astley Bridge 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 Astley Bridge, 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 Astley Bridge places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Astley Bridge & the surrounding areas.
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