Visit Clayton-le-Moors – things to do & explore
When you visit Clayton-le-Moors 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 Clayton-le-Moors. Millions of audio content spots are available when you travel by foot, bike, bus or car around Clayton-le-Moors through your mobile phone connected to headphones.
Overview of Clayton-le-Moors history & facts by Walkfo
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Clayton-le-Moors is an industrial town, located two miles north of Accrington in the borough of Hyndburn in the county of Lancashire, England. It is usually referred to locally as simply ‘Clayton’. The town has a population of 8,522 according to the 2011 census. To the west lies Rishton, to the north Great Harwood, and two miles to the south, Accrington. Clayton-le-Moors is situated on the A680 road alongside the M65 motorway.
Clayton-le-Moors history
It is thought that the town developed with the fusion of the two hamlets of Oakenshaw (bottom end) and Enfield (top end) which began during the construction of the Leeds Liverpool Canal, which pre-dated the railways. The merger continued with the development of the cotton textile industry, particularly that of weaving and cloth finishing. The stretch of canal between Burnley and Enfield Wharf (now alongside the Enfield Bridge on Blackburn Road) was opened in 1801. By 1808 it had been extended to Church. The final link up between Leeds and Liverpool was completed 1816. Clayton-le-Moors now lies at the midpoint of the Leeds Liverpool Canal although there is no marker. The canal continued to be used for the commercial transportation of coal between Bank Hall Colliery, Burnley and the now demolished power generating station at Whitebirk, Blackburn, until 1963. During the harsh winter of 1963 the thickness of the ice on the canal prevented the movement of barges and coal had to be transported by road. Subsequently, canal transportation was never resumed. The canal is now used solely for leisure boating and is managed and maintained by a charitable trust, the Canal and River Trust. The Roman Catholic St. Mary’s Church which opened in 1819, was originally sited on Burnley Road, east of the town, on the boundary with Altham, as a replacement for the chapel at Dunkenhalgh. The present-day St. Mary’s in Clayton-le-Moors was built in 1959 and the old one demolished, with only the graveyard surviving. The Church of England, All Saints’ Church was erected in 1840. The town’s two main thoroughfares are the A680 Whalley Road, which still has some canal workers’ cottages, and A678 which is named Blackburn Road to the west of the junction with Whalley Road and Burnley Road to the east. Mercer Park, once the grounds of Mercer House, is freely open to the public, and contains an updated war memorial. The house was previously Oakenshaw Cottage, where John Mercer lived towards the end of his life. Mercer, a self-taught chemist born in Great Harwood, invented the mercerisation process for treating cotton which is still in use today. He was also a pioneer of colour photography. Clayton-le-Moors is said to be a town of two halves. Residents were either ‘top-enders’ or ‘bottom-enders’, depending on which side of the Whalley Road canal bridge they lived. The two communities had firm opinions about each other and were said to rarely mix. With the mixing of the town’s children at common schools, this is no longer the case but the distinction between top and bottom enders still remains. There was, however, an annual football match between them at the running track at Wilson’s Playing Fields (formerly the Woodlands Playing Fields), which lie behind woodland close to Sparth House in lower Whalley Road. The synthetic running track there is surrounded by football pitches, a cricket pitch and changing rooms. It also hosts Hyndburn parkrun, a timed 5 km run every Saturday morning.
You can visit Clayton-le-Moors, COUNTY/BOROUGH & use Walkfo to discover the best walking places with our free digital tour guide app created especially for Clayton-le-Moors. Walkfo Clayton-le-Moors 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 Clayton-le-Moors, 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 Clayton-le-Moors will keep up.
When you visit Clayton-le-Moors
When you visit Clayton-le-Moors, Walkfo is your digital tour guide while exploring by foot, bike or bus. With numerous walks, hikes, tourist locations & travel destinations available in Clayton-le-Moors, our travel AI guide helps you get the best from your visit to Clayton-le-Moors & the surrounding areas. Our explore Clayton-le-Moors app for iPhone & Android, allows you to experience the hidden history, culture and amazing facts throughout Clayton-le-Moors whilst out walking. The digital tour guide creates interactive audio stories driven by where you walk, so you can exploration Clayton-le-Moors’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 Clayton-le-Moors alone that form an interactive Clayton-le-Moors walking map for you to explore.”
Best Clayton-le-Moors places to visit
Clayton-le-Moors has hundreds of places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are five of Clayton-le-Moors’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 Clayton-le-Moors plaques
Clayton-le-Moors 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 Clayton-le-Moors 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 Clayton-le-Moors 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 Clayton-le-Moors, you will hear the full story of each of these plaques.
Experience Clayton-le-Moors audio walks & tours
Walkfo is a free app that shows you things to do / visit in Clayton-le-Moors 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 Clayton-le-Moors freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Visiting Clayton-le-Moors with Walkfo’s things to do interactive map
The “Clayton-le-Moors things to do map” below is a preview of the places you can visit in Clayton-le-Moors 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.
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This Clayton-le-Moors tourism map shows points of interest within a 4km radius of Clayton-le-Moors 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 Clayton-le-Moors, 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 Clayton-le-Moors and surrounding areas
Getting to / around Clayton-le-Moors – transport links, stations, streets & traffic map
Getting around in Clayton-le-Moors using public transportation may include roads, streets, trains, undergrounds, buses or trams. Walkfo has the following important Clayton-le-Moors public transport locations with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
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Attention local Clayton-le-Moors historians, tour guides & Clayton-le-Moors tourism agents
Looking for a way to get more visitors to Clayton-le-Moors?
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 Clayton-le-Moors 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.visitClayton-le-Moors.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.