Visit Broughton-in-Furness – things to do & explore
When you visit Broughton-in-Furness 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 Broughton-in-Furness. Millions of audio content spots are available when you travel by foot, bike, bus or car around Broughton-in-Furness through your mobile phone connected to headphones.
Overview of Broughton-in-Furness history & facts by Walkfo
Planning a visit to Broughton-in-Furness?
Broughton in Furness is a small market town in the civil parish of Broughton West in the South Lakeland district of Cumbria, England. It had a population of 529 at the 2011 Census. It is located on the south western boundary of England’s Lake District National Park in the Furness region of Cumbria, which was originally part of Lancashire before 1974.
Broughton-in-Furness history
Broughton in Furness is mentioned in the Domesday Book as one of the townships forming the Manor of Hougun held by Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria. Dating from around the eleventh century, the original settlement grew to become the local market town for both fishing and agriculture. Wool was particularly important for the town’s development. The town was given a charter in 1575. Market Square was formally laid out in 1760 by John Gilpin Sawrey, the Lord of the Manor, who lived at Broughton Tower,a large mansion just a short distance from the Square. In the 1990s the A595 road was diverted in an attempt to improve the environment of the town and help it retain its rural feel.
Broughton-in-Furness geography / climate
It lies near the River Duddon, just inland from the coastal hamlet of Foxfield. Duddon Mosses is a site of special scientific interest with deer, lizards, adders and barn owls. With just 529 residents, in terms of population, Broughton-in-Furness ranks 5,721 of the 7,727 towns in the UK according to the 2011 census.
You can visit Broughton-in-Furness, COUNTY/BOROUGH & use Walkfo to discover the best walking places with our free digital tour guide app created especially for Broughton-in-Furness. Walkfo Broughton-in-Furness 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 Broughton-in-Furness, 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 Broughton-in-Furness will keep up.
When you visit Broughton-in-Furness
When you visit Broughton-in-Furness, Walkfo is your digital tour guide while exploring by foot, bike or bus. With numerous walks, hikes, tourist locations & travel destinations available in Broughton-in-Furness, our travel AI guide helps you get the best from your visit to Broughton-in-Furness & the surrounding areas. Our explore Broughton-in-Furness app for iPhone & Android, allows you to experience the hidden history, culture and amazing facts throughout Broughton-in-Furness whilst out walking. The digital tour guide creates interactive audio stories driven by where you walk, so you can exploration Broughton-in-Furness’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 Broughton-in-Furness alone that form an interactive Broughton-in-Furness walking map for you to explore.”
Best Broughton-in-Furness places to visit
Broughton-in-Furness has hundreds of places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are five of Broughton-in-Furness’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 Broughton-in-Furness plaques
Broughton-in-Furness 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 Broughton-in-Furness 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 Broughton-in-Furness 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 Broughton-in-Furness, you will hear the full story of each of these plaques.
Experience Broughton-in-Furness audio walks & tours
Walkfo is a free app that shows you things to do / visit in Broughton-in-Furness 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 Broughton-in-Furness freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Visiting Broughton-in-Furness with Walkfo’s things to do interactive map
The “Broughton-in-Furness things to do map” below is a preview of the places you can visit in Broughton-in-Furness 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 Broughton-in-Furness Map’
This Broughton-in-Furness tourism map shows points of interest within a 4km radius of Broughton-in-Furness 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 Broughton-in-Furness, 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 Broughton-in-Furness and surrounding areas
Getting to / around Broughton-in-Furness – transport links, stations, streets & traffic map
Getting around in Broughton-in-Furness using public transportation may include roads, streets, trains, undergrounds, buses or trams. Walkfo has the following important Broughton-in-Furness public transport locations with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
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Attention local Broughton-in-Furness historians, tour guides & Broughton-in-Furness tourism agents
Looking for a way to get more visitors to Broughton-in-Furness?
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 Broughton-in-Furness 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.visitBroughton-in-Furness.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.