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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Fitton Hill


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Fitton Hill is a large housing estate in the town of Oldham in Greater Manchester. It was built during the 1950s and 1960s on previously undeveloped moorland with scattered hamlets and farmsteads. The layout of the estate obliterated all traces of the old landscape. When you visit Fitton Hill, Walkfo brings Fitton Hill places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

Fitton Hill Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Fitton Hill


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With 121 audio plaques & Fitton Hill places for you to explore in the Fitton Hill area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Fitton Hill places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

Fitton Hill history


Fitton Hill anciently constituted a farmstead, one of several once lying within the area built upon by the estate. All the hamlets and farms have now gone but place-names such as Deanshut and Marland Fold survived in the guise of street names and schools.

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Visit Fitton Hill PlacesYou can visit Fitton Hill places with Walkfo Fitton Hill to hear history at Fitton Hill’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Fitton Hill has 121 places to visit in our interactive Fitton Hill 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 Fitton Hill, 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 Fitton Hill places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Fitton Hill & the surrounding areas.

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Best Fitton Hill places to visit


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

Fitton Hill photo Chadderton F.C.
Chadderton Football Club is a football club in Oldham, Greater Manchester. They are currently members of the North West Counties League Division One North and play at Andrew Street.
Fitton Hill photo Textile Mill, Chadderton
Half of the building was destroyed by fire on 11 July 1950. The remaining section continued to be used for cotton waste sorting by W. H. Holt and Son until 1988.
Fitton Hill photo Cowhill, Greater Manchester
Cowhill (archaically Cow Hill) is a locality of Chadderton, in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester. It is located 0.5 miles (0.80 km) southeast of the town centre close to its eastern boundary with Oldham. An ancient hamlet which grew into an industrial village, Cowhill is now a residential area and includes a large housing development, Crossley Estate.
Fitton Hill photo Hartford Mill
Hartford Mill was a Grade II-listed building located off Block Lane, in the Freehold area of Oldham, UK. The mill was located in the Oldham area of Freehold and is Grade II listed above Block Lane.
Fitton Hill photo Manor Mill, Chadderton
Manor Mill, Chadderton is an early twentieth century, five storey cotton spinning mill. It was taken over by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in the 1930s and passed to Courtaulds in 1964. Production finished in 1990.
Fitton Hill photo Werneth Park
Werneth Park is a public park in Oldham, Greater Manchester. It includes a Grade II* listed Community Centre, Music Rooms, Dame Sarah Lees Memorial, Gardens and sports facilities.
Fitton Hill photo Werneth Hall
Werneth Hall is a Grade II* listed privately owned Jacobean manor house in Oldham, Greater Manchester. It was built in 17th century and is now owned by a private family.
Fitton Hill photo Royd Mill, Oldham
Royd Mill, Oldham was built in 1907 and extended in 1912 and 1924. It was taken over by the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in the 1930s and passed to Courtaulds in 1964. The mill was demolished in 2015 to make way for a housing scheme.
Fitton Hill photo Curzon Mill, Ashton-under-Lyne
Curzon Mill, later known as Alger Mill, was a cotton spinning mill in the Hurst district of Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester. It was built between 1899 and 1902 for the Ashton Syndicate by Sydney Stott of Oldham. The mill was sold to the Alger Spinning Co. Ltd in 1911, and closed in 1942.
Fitton Hill photo St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Ashton-under-Lyne
St. Michael’s Church in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, is a Grade I Listed Building. It is one of 116 surviving medieval parish churches in the North West. The church dates back to at least 1262, and a church on the site was mentioned in the Domesday Book.

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Fitton Hill has 33 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Fitton Hill 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 Fitton Hill using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Fitton Hill plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.