Visit Bolton-le-Sands – things to do & explore
When you visit Bolton-le-Sands on a day-trip, weekend away or holiday, Walkfo is the digital tour guide to the hidden history & cultural facts that you can explore in Bolton-le-Sands. Millions of audio content spots are available when you travel by foot, bike, bus or car around Bolton-le-Sands through your mobile phone connected to headphones.
Overview of Bolton-le-Sands history & facts by Walkfo
Planning a visit to Bolton-le-Sands?
Bolton-le-Sands is a large village and civil parish of the City of Lancaster in Lancashire, England. The parish had a population of 4,098 recorded in the 2001 census, increasing to 4,127 at the 2011 Census. Referred to as Bodeltone in the Domesday book, the village was known as Bolton until the arrival of the railways, when the name was changed to Bolton-le-Sands to differentiate from similarly named towns on the same line, such as Bolton which was then a part of Lancashire and called Bolton-le-Moors. The oldest church in the village, founded prior to 1094, is the Church of England Holy Trinity church, originally dedicated to St Michael. The oldest part of the current building is the tower, supposed to have been built around 1500. The nave and chancel date from the 19th century. The other churches are the Roman Catholic St Mary of the Angels and the Christ Church United Reformed Church. The Lancaster Canal, built in the 1790s, is a major feature of the village. Also passing through the village is the A6 and the West Coast Main Line, although its railway station closed in 1969. The village includes three pubs: The Royal Hotel, situated on the A6, The Packet Boat (closed in 2015), and the Blue Anchor are both within the centre of the village, along the main street. Bolton-le-Sands football team plays at Main Road, behind the aforementioned Packet Boat pub. The village has one school, Bolton-le-Sands Church of England Primary School, with around 300 pupils from the ages of 4 to 11 in a modern school building. The school is a successor to the old Boys’ Free Grammar School, which dates from 1657, with the 19th century school building still used for community education. The school building was also home to the Bolton-le-Sands library until 1973, when the library was moved into a newly built site in the village centre. The library was controversially closed in Autumn 2016 following a renovation in 2015 costing a reported £283,000. The village has a very active scout group that meets in the scout hut on the village playing fields. It has three sections Beavers, Cubs and Scouts and its website can be found at https://web.archive.org/web/20090727103031/http://www.bolton-le-sandsscouts.org.uk/
You can visit Bolton-le-Sands, COUNTY/BOROUGH & use Walkfo to discover the best walking places with our free digital tour guide app created especially for Bolton-le-Sands. Walkfo Bolton-le-Sands has 300 locations with history, culture & travel facts, that you can explore the same way you can a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Bolton-le-Sands, being in the moment, without digital distraction and no limitations to a specific walking route – you choose where you want to go, when you want to go and Walkfo Bolton-le-Sands will keep up.
When you visit Bolton-le-Sands
When you visit Bolton-le-Sands, Walkfo is your digital tour guide while exploring by foot, bike or bus. With numerous walks, hikes, tourist locations & travel destinations available in Bolton-le-Sands, our travel AI guide helps you get the best from your visit to Bolton-le-Sands & the surrounding areas. Our explore Bolton-le-Sands app for iPhone & Android, allows you to experience the hidden history, culture and amazing facts throughout Bolton-le-Sands whilst out walking. The digital tour guide creates interactive audio stories driven by where you walk, so you can exploration Bolton-le-Sands’s National Heritage sites, tourist attractions, historic locations or city streets freely, without the restrictions of a predefined walk & walk map.
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 0 audio facts in Bolton-le-Sands alone that form an interactive Bolton-le-Sands walking map for you to explore.”
Best Bolton-le-Sands places to visit
Bolton-le-Sands has hundreds of places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are five of Bolton-le-Sands’s best destinations to visit when exploring the area. We have condensed the information with much more detail available within Walkfo when you visit the destinations.
bVisit Bolton-le-Sands plaques
Bolton-le-Sands has 0 plaques as part of nation or local tourist plaque schemes for you to explore when you visit. Plaque schemes such as National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide a visual geo marker to highlight points of interest things, at the places where they happened. Walkfo has researched each plaque to provide additional content when you visit the Bolton-le-Sands plaques whilst using the app. Experience the hidden history & stories behind each location as the Walkfo local tourist guide app uses GPS to trigger audio close to each Bolton-le-Sands plaque. Walkfo also offers millions of additional ‘virtual geo plaques’ that are unique to Walkfo, created across the UK (and the world).
When using Walkfo to explore Bolton-le-Sands, you will hear the full story of each of these plaques.
Experience Bolton-le-Sands audio walks & tours
Walkfo is a free app that shows you things to do / visit in Bolton-le-Sands on a map. You can explore the area as you wish, as you would do an art gallery or museum, and when you walk close to those locations, our digital tour guide will tell you history, culture & travel facts about the location in audio form. With headphone connected, you can explore Bolton-le-Sands freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Visiting Bolton-le-Sands with Walkfo’s things to do interactive map
The “Bolton-le-Sands things to do map” below is a preview of the places you can visit in Bolton-le-Sands and surrounding areas with our digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has content for a plaque, a building, a street or general area, providing history, culture or tourism information the you can explore.
| Interactive ‘Explore Bolton-le-Sands Map’
This Bolton-le-Sands tourism map shows points of interest within a 4km radius of Bolton-le-Sands centre | Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Bolton-le-Sands, 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.
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Things to do & visit in Bolton-le-Sands and surrounding areas
Getting to / around Bolton-le-Sands – transport links, stations, streets & traffic map
Getting around in Bolton-le-Sands using public transportation may include roads, streets, trains, undergrounds, buses or trams. Walkfo has the following important Bolton-le-Sands public transport locations with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
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Attention local Bolton-le-Sands historians, tour guides & Bolton-le-Sands tourism agents
Looking for a way to get more visitors to Bolton-le-Sands?
Whilst Walkfo has millions audio spots already available, Walkfo Creator allows tourist destinations, attractions & landmarks to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & walks using the simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. Creating an audio walk for you destination is free* and can be created in under 15 minutes if you have content ready, with Walkfo Creator doing all the hard work generating audio files for geo spot you simply click on a map.
The 100 Amazing Bolton-le-Sands Places outdoor museum was created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) as a way for people to safely explore the area during Covid-19 times whilst improving the experience of visiting a city when tourism boards use Walkfo to market their destination.
Walkfo is currently looking to partner with websites who offer things-to-do / what’s on events listings to add to our content on our webpages (for example: www.visitBolton-le-Sands.com). If you are interested in being a content provider, 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.