Welcome to Visit Collegelands Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Collegelands
Visit Collegelands places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Collegelands places to visit. A unique way to experience Collegelands’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Collegelands as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Collegelands is part of a £200m development project in the heart of the city of Glasgow. It is one of the largest regeneration projects in the United Kingdom. The location takes up 1.1m square feet on the corner of Duke Street and High Street. The margin wall of the former College Goods Yard railway station has been reserved. When you visit Collegelands, Walkfo brings Collegelands places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Collegelands Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Collegelands
Visit Collegelands – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 393 audio plaques & Collegelands places for you to explore in the Collegelands area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Collegelands places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Collegelands with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Collegelands places with Walkfo Collegelands to hear history at Collegelands’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Collegelands has 393 places to visit in our interactive Collegelands 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 Collegelands, 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 Collegelands places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Collegelands & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 393 audio facts unique to Collegelands places in an interactive Collegelands map you can explore.”
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393 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
Collegelands historic spots | Collegelands tourist destinations | Collegelands plaques | Collegelands geographic features |
| Walkfo Collegelands tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Collegelands | |||
Best Collegelands places to visit
Collegelands has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Collegelands’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Collegelands’s information audio spots:
 | Strathbungo Strathbungo grew up as a small village built along the Pollokshaws Road, one of the main arteries leading southwards from the centre of Glasgow, adjoined by the Camphill Estate, now part of Queens Park. The feudal superiors, the Maxwells of Pollok, preferred the name Marchtown, and this name is seen on some old maps. |
 | St Andrew’s Cross, Glasgow St Andrew’s Cross, also known as Eglinton Toll, is a road junction in the south side of Glasgow, Scotland. The junction is known as the St Andrew Cross. |
 | Tradeston Tradeston (Scots: Tredstoun) is a small district in the Scottish city of Glasgow adjacent to the city centre on the south bank of the River Clyde. |
 | Sandyford, Glasgow Sandyford is north of the River Clyde and forms part of the western periphery of Glasgow. Formerly the name of a ward under Glasgow Town Council in the early 20th century. It is within a continuous area of dense urban development bordering several other neighbourhoods. |
| Athletes’ Village (Glasgow 2014) The Athletes Village for the 2014 Commonwealth Games was situated on a 35-hectare (86-acre) site, in the east end of Glasgow. The site was used as accommodation for up to 8,000 athletes and officials from all over the Commonwealth nations. After the games, the site was further developed and has up to 1,400 homes, a portion of which are available for social rental. |
| Carntyne Carntyne (Scottish Gaelic: Càrn an Teine) is a suburban district in the Scottish city of Glasgow. It is situated north of the River Clyde, and in the east end of the city. It has formed the core of the East Centre ward under Glasgow City Council since 2007. |
 | 1990 Auckland Jewish daycare stabbing A mentally ill woman attacked the playground of the Jewish Kadimah School’s daycare in Central Auckland, stabbing four children with a knife. The attack continued as other young students looked on “in horror”, while members of staff ran to help the children. The woman, 52-year-old Pauline Janet Williamson, was eventually disarmed by a male teacher. The children, aged 6 to 8, were hospitalised immediately afterwards. |
 | Tradeston Flour Mills explosion The Tradeston Flour Mills exploded on 9 July 1872. Eighteen people died and at least 16 were injured. The mill was owned by Matthew Muir & Sons and had been in operation for 30 years. |
 | Equestrian statue of William III, Glasgow The equestrian statue of William III in Cathedral Square, Glasgow, is a 1735 work by an unknown sculptor. It is the work of a sculptor unknown. |
 | Chinatown, Glasgow Chinatown in Glasgow is a Chinese shopping complex that opened in 1992 in Cowcaddens. Chinatown is a shopping complex in the Scottish city. It is located in the centre of the city’s Chinatown. |
Visit Collegelands plaques
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here Collegelands has 74 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Collegelands 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 Collegelands using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Collegelands plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
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