Welcome to Visit Blackley Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Blackley
Visit Blackley places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Blackley places to visit. A unique way to experience Blackley’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Blackley as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Blackley Walkfo Preview When you visit Blackley, Walkfo brings Blackley places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Blackley Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Blackley
Visit Blackley – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 92 audio plaques & Blackley places for you to explore in the Blackley area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Blackley places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Blackley history
The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon Blæclēah = “dark wood” or “dark clearing” In the 13th and 14th centuries Blackley was referred to as Blakeley or Blakelegh. By the Middle Ages Blackley had become a park belonging to the lords of Manchester.
Why visit Blackley with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Blackley places with Walkfo Blackley to hear history at Blackley’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Blackley has 92 places to visit in our interactive Blackley 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 Blackley, 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 Blackley places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Blackley & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 92 audio facts unique to Blackley places in an interactive Blackley map you can explore.”
Walkfo Blackley tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Blackley
Best Blackley places to visit
Blackley has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Blackley’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Blackley’s information audio spots:
Blackley Cemetery Blackley Cemetery is a large, municipal cemetery situated within the northern suburbs of Manchester . It is owned, operated and maintained by Manchester City Council . It was opened in 1953 on land that was previously a golf course .
HM Prison Manchester HM Prison Manchester is a high-security men’s prison in Manchester, England, operated by Her Majesty’s Prison Service. It is known for its prominent ventilation tower and imposing design. It was designed by Alfred Waterhouse and opened in 1868 alongside the demolished Manchester Assize Courts.
Tonge Hall Tonge Hall is a Grade II* listed Elizabethan manor house in Tonge, Middleton, Greater Manchester. It was built in the 17th century and is now in the Middleton area of Middleton.
North Manchester Rugby Club North Manchester Rugby Club (aka North Manchester RUFC) is an amateur sports club situated 5 miles north of the centre of Manchester. Established originally in 1921 in Prestwich as Prestwich Rugby Union Football Club, the club moved to Rhodes Cricket Club in 1951 and changed its name to Prestwich & Middleton Rugby Union football club in 1985. In 1991 the club merged with struggling Oldham college Rugby Union Club, maintaining the name of North Manchester.
Municipal Borough of Middleton The Municipal Borough of Middleton was, from 1886 to 1974, coterminous with Middleton. It was a municipal borough in the administrative county of Lancashire, England.
Rhodes, Greater Manchester Rhodes is a suburb of Middleton, in the Rochdale district of Greater Manchester. In 2018 it had an estimated population of 2917.
Strangeways Brewery Strangeways Brewery was a landmark in Manchester, England, just north of the city centre. It was famous as the home of Boddingtons Bitter. It closed in 2005 and was demolished in 2007.
Peninsula Building The Peninsula Building is part of Manchester’s Green Quarter, a regeneration project north-west of Manchester city centre. The building is a commercial high-rise building in Manchester.
One Angel Square One Angel Square is one of the most sustainable large buildings in Europe. It is powered by a biodiesel cogeneration plant using rapeseed oil to provide electricity and heat. The building cost £105 million to construct and was sold on leaseback terms in 2013 for £142 million.
Kersal Moor Kersal Moor consists of eight hectares of moorland in Kersal, Greater Manchester. It was the site of the first Manchester Racecourse and the second golf course to be built outside Scotland. It has been extensively used for other sporting pursuits, military manoeuvres and public gatherings such as the Great Chartist Meeting of 1838.
Visit Blackley plaques
20 plaques hereBlackley has 20 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Blackley 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 Blackley using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Blackley plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Blackley audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Blackley allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Blackley’s 92 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Blackley freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Blackley Map App
Our visit Blackley map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Blackley & 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 Blackley tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Blackley centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Blackley area at LONG:-2.22282, LAT:53.52246.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Blackley, 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 Blackley / surrounding areas
● Boggart Hole Brook ● Blackley ● North Manchester General Hospital ● Church of St Peter, Blackley ● Crumpsall Park ● Harpurhey ● Boggart Hole Clough ● Smedley, Manchester ● Abraham Moss tram stop ● Booth Hall Children’s Hospital ● Higher Blackley ● Crumpsall tram stop ● Crumpsall ● Monsall Hospital ● St Luke’s Church, Manchester ● Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester ● Monsall tram stop ● North Manchester Jamia Mosque ● Charlestown, Manchester ● St Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church, Manchester ● Church of St John the Evangelist, Cheetham Hill ● Irk Valley Junction rail crash ● Central Park tram stop ● Collyhurst ● Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation ● Manchester Central (Salvation Army) ● Blackley Cemetery ● Manchester Fort ● Moston, Manchester ● Sandhills tram stop
● Bowker Vale tram stop ● Newton Heath TMD ● Broadhurst Park (public park) ● St James’ Church, Broughton ● Manchester Jewish Museum ● Corpus Christi Priory ● Broadhurst Park ● Newton Heath and Moston tram stop ● White Moss ● Glenbrook, Greater Manchester ● Great Heaton ● Havelock Mills ● Moston Brook ● Heaton Park Tramway ● St Chad’s, Cheetham Hill ● Miles Platting ● Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, Manchester ● Newton Heath ● Strangeways, Manchester ● Heaton Park tram stop ● Heaton Park ● Heaton Park Congregational Church ● Salford City F.C. ● The Cliff (training ground) ● Heaton Park BT Tower ● Prestwich Cricket, Tennis & Bowling Club ● St Margaret’s Church, Prestwich ● Broughton, Salford ● Heaton Park Reservoir ● HM Prison Manchester ● Middleton Junction ● Chadderton Power Station ● Greengate, Greater Manchester ● Alkrington ● Tonge, Middleton ● Tonge Hall ● North Manchester Rugby Club ● St Michael’s Church, Middleton ● St Leonard’s Church, Middleton ● Municipal Borough of Middleton ● New Moston ● Langley, Greater Manchester ● Simister ● Bowlee ● Rhodes, Greater Manchester ● St Wilfrid and St Ann’s Church, Newton Heath ● Manchester Assize Courts ● Asian Sound ● Strangeways Brewery ● Peninsula Building ● Manchester Victoria Reversing Sidings ● Green Quarter ● One Angel Square ● Cheetham, Manchester ● F.C. United of Manchester ● Kersal Moor ● Kersal ● St Michael’s Flags and Angel Meadow Park ● Moor Lane ● Cheetham Hill
Getting to / around Blackley – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Blackley using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Blackley places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Blackley Public Transport Stations
Blackley Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Miles Platting railway station
Newton Heath railway station
Dean Lane railway station
Park railway station
Moston railway station
Middleton railway station (England)
Middleton bus station
Manchester Oldham Road railway station
Woodlands Road tram stop
Queens Road tram stop
Cheetham Hill Road
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Local Blackley historians & Blackley tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Blackley? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Blackley’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 Blackley 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 Blackley 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 Blackley 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-Blackley’ web pages (for example: www.visitBlackley.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 Blackley places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Blackley places to visit. A unique way to experience Blackley’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Blackley as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Blackley places with Walkfo Blackley to hear history at Blackley’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Blackley has 92 places to visit in our interactive Blackley 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 Blackley, 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 Blackley places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Blackley & the surrounding areas.
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Trying to encourage visitors to Blackley?