Welcome to Visit Burscough Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Burscough
Visit Burscough places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Burscough places to visit. A unique way to experience Burscough’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Burscough as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Burscough Walkfo Preview Burscough is a small town and civil parish within West Lancashire. The population taken at the 2011 Census was 9,182. The parish also includes the hamlet of Tarlscough and the Martin Mere Wetland Centre. When you visit Burscough, Walkfo brings Burscough places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Burscough Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Burscough
Visit Burscough – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 23 audio plaques & Burscough places for you to explore in the Burscough area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Burscough places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Burscough with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Burscough places with Walkfo Burscough to hear history at Burscough’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Burscough has 23 places to visit in our interactive Burscough 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 Burscough, 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 Burscough places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Burscough & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 23 audio facts unique to Burscough places in an interactive Burscough map you can explore.”
Walkfo Burscough tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Burscough
Best Burscough places to visit
Burscough has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Burscough’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Burscough’s information audio spots:
River Tawd The River Tawd flows through Skelmersdale and Lathom in West Lancashire. It is a tributary of the River Douglas which it joins in Lathom. Parts of the river are a county biological heritage site.
Martin Mere Martin Mere is a vast marsh, around grid reference SD 41 15 that was, until it was drained, the largest body of fresh water in England. The mere is a mere near Burscough, in Lancashire, on the West Lancsire Coastal Plain.
New Lane railway station New Lane railway station serves the rural communities and farming villages around New Lane in West Lancashire. It is situated near the Martin Mere bird sanctuary, which can be reached by a 1-mile walk. The main stone-built station building survives adjacent to the Wigan-bound platform, but is now in use as a private house.
St John the Baptist Church, Burscough St John the Baptist Church is in Liverpool Road North, Burscough, Lancashire. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Ormskirk, the archdeaconry of Warrington, and the diocese of Liverpool. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
Burscough Methodist Church Burscough Methodist Church was built in between 1868 and 1869 of a brick construction in a cruciform layout. The church was opened on 26 March 1869, with construction coming in under budget.
Burscough F.C. Burscough Football Club is a member of the North West Counties League, and competes in the Premier Division. Its home ground is Victoria Park, Mart Lane, in Burscough, Lancashire.
Blythe Hall, Lathom Blythe Hall is a large grade II listed country house in Lathom, Lancashire. It is a two-storey building of rendered sandstone rubble with stone slate roofs.
Lathom House Lathom House was a large country house in the parish of Lathom in Lancashire. Built between 1725 and 1740, the main block was demolished in 1925.
Visit Burscough plaques
0 plaques hereBurscough has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Burscough 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 Burscough using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Burscough plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Burscough audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Burscough allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Burscough’s 23 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Burscough freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Burscough Map App
Our visit Burscough map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Burscough & 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 Burscough tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Burscough centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Burscough area at LONG:-2.843, LAT:53.596.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Burscough, 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 Burscough / surrounding areas
● Ormskirk Urban District ● Dolan Bikes ● Tower Hill Water Tower ● River Tawd ● WWT Martin Mere ● Martin Mere ● Tarlscough ● RNAS Burscough (HMS Ringtail) ● St John the Baptist Church, Burscough ● Burscough Methodist Church ● Formby F.C. ● Burscough F.C. ● Burscough Junction rail accident ● Lathom ● Blythe Hall, Lathom ● Hoscar ● Burscough Priory ● Lathom and Burscough Urban District ● Lathom House ● West Lancashire ● Westhead ● Burscough ● Siege of Lathom House
Getting to / around Burscough – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Burscough using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Burscough places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Burscough Public Transport Stations
Burscough Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Ormskirk railway station
New Lane railway station
Burscough Junction railway station
Burscough Bridge railway station
Hoscar railway station
Westhead Halt railway station
Victor Electrics
Victor Electrics was formed by Outram’s bakery of Southport, who could not find electric vehicles at a price they were prepared to pay. The first bread van was produced in 1923, and proved so successful that several more were built. The company was based on Victoria Street, just to the north of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, where there was a bakery shown on maps from 1928 and engineering works on the 1972 map.
Windmill Farm Railway
The Windmill Farm Railway is a narrow gauge railway line located at the Windmill Animal Farm. The railway operates over a 1.1-mile track at 15 in (381 mm) gauge, using locomotives previously from the Fairbourne Railway.
Local Burscough historians & Burscough tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Burscough? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Burscough’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 Burscough 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 Burscough 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 Burscough 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-Burscough’ web pages (for example: www.visitBurscough.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 Burscough places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Burscough places to visit. A unique way to experience Burscough’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Burscough as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Burscough places with Walkfo Burscough to hear history at Burscough’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Burscough has 23 places to visit in our interactive Burscough 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 Burscough, 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 Burscough places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Burscough & the surrounding areas.
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