Visit Boulby Places

Welcome to Visit Boulby Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Boulby

  

Boulby Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Boulby

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You can visit Boulby places with Walkfo Boulby to hear history at Boulby’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Boulby has 17 places to visit in our interactive Boulby 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 Boulby, 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 Boulby places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Boulby & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 17 audio facts unique to Boulby places in an interactive Boulby map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Boulby Places Map
17 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo Boulby tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Boulby

  

Best Boulby places to visit

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Boulby has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Boulby’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Boulby’s information audio spots:

Roxby Hall Roxby Hall (or Rousby Hall) is a former manor house or castle in the town of Roxby, North Yorkshire, England. Only one ruined corner and earthworks remains in a field adjacent to St. Nicholas’s Church.

UK Dark Matter Collaboration The UK Dark Matter Collaboration (UKDMC) was an experiment to search for Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) The consortium consisted of astrophysicists and particle physicists from the United Kingdom. Detectors were set up 1,100 m (3,600 ft) underground in a halite seam at the Boulby Mine in North Yorkshire.

Directional Recoil Identification from Tracks The Directional Recoil Identification from Tracks (DRIFT) detector is a low pressure negative ion time projection chamber (NITPC) designed to detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) – a prime dark matter candidate. There are currently two DRIFT detectors in operation. DRIFT-IId is located 1100m underground in the Boulby Underground Laboratory at the Bouby Mine in North Yorkshire, England, and DRIFT IIe is located on the surface at Occidental College, LA, USA.

ZEPLIN-III The ZEPLIN-III dark matter experiment attempted to detect galactic WIMPs using a 12 kg liquid xenon target. It operated at the Boulby Underground Laboratory (North-East England, UK) in the period 2006–2011.

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