Welcome to Visit Fixby Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Fixby
Visit Fixby places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Fixby places to visit. A unique way to experience Fixby’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Fixby as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Fixby Walkfo Preview Fixby is a suburb in north-west Kirklees bordering neighbouring Calderdale and is traditionally part of Huddersfield in the English county of West Yorkshire. The name “Fixby” derives from the Gaelic Irish personal name Fiach. In the nineteenth century Fixby was a large estate to which social reformer Richard Oastler was appointed as steward. When you visit Fixby, Walkfo brings Fixby places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Fixby Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Fixby
Visit Fixby – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 72 audio plaques & Fixby places for you to explore in the Fixby area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Fixby places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Fixby with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Fixby places with Walkfo Fixby to hear history at Fixby’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Fixby has 72 places to visit in our interactive Fixby 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 Fixby, 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 Fixby places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Fixby & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 72 audio facts unique to Fixby places in an interactive Fixby map you can explore.”
Walkfo Fixby tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Fixby
Best Fixby places to visit
Fixby has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Fixby’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Fixby’s information audio spots:
Lindley, Huddersfield Lindley is a suburb of Huddersfield, within the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is approximately 2 miles (3 km) northwest from the town centre. It was officially opened only in 1967, by Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
Birkby, Huddersfield Birkby is a large multi-cultural suburb close to the town centre in Huddersfield, in the Kirklees borough of West Yorkshire. It has a population of 6,700 and sits in the Grimescar Valley, a greenbelt area of the city. It contains Norman Park, a small park with a play area and a war memorial, which commemorates those who died in WWI.
Fartown, Huddersfield Fartown is a district of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England that starts 0.6 miles (1 km) north of the town centre. The district area stretches from the top of Woodhouse Hill to the Halifax Old Road with a population of 4,735 according to the 2001 Census. The area has a multi-ethnic population with a significant percentage hailing from South Asian and West Indian backgrounds.
Rugby League Heritage Centre The Rugby League Heritage Centre was formerly located in the basement of the George Hotel, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. It was the brainchild of Sky Sports presenter and former Great Britain international Mike Stephenson.
St Patrick’s Church, Huddersfield St Patrick’s Church is a Roman Catholic church in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Built in 1832 for use as a parish church, it was designed by Joseph Kaye, an architect from Bradford. It is situated on the junction between New North Road and Castlegate in the centre of the town.
Kingsgate, Huddersfield The Kingsgate Shopping Centre is a shopping centre in Huddersfield. It opened in February 2002 after 12 years of planning and delays. The £50m pound complex took 18 months to complete and contains over 40 stores.
Lawrence Batley Theatre The Lawrence Batley Theatre is a theatre in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. It was originally built in 1819 as a Methodist chapel, called the Queen Street Chapel. The chief mason was Joseph Kaye, who was also responsible for the station. In 1973 the building was converted into an arts centre but serious structural problems were discovered by Kirklees Metropolitan Council in 1975. In 1989 the Kirkless Theatre Trust was given the go ahead to save the building from deterioration.
Huddersfield Town Hall Huddersfield Town Hall is a municipal facility in West Yorkshire, West Yorkshire. It is a Grade II listed building. The town hall is located in the city centre.
Visit Fixby plaques
10 plaques hereFixby has 10 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Fixby 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 Fixby using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Fixby plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Fixby audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Fixby allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Fixby’s 72 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Fixby freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Fixby Map App
Our visit Fixby map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Fixby & 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 Fixby tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Fixby centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Fixby area at LONG:-1.80004, LAT:53.67271.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Fixby, 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.
● Brighouse Town Hall ● Brighouse ● Brighouse Bridge ● Rastrick Bridge ● Blakeborough’s Bridge ● Brookfoot ● Rastrick ● Elland Lower Edge ● West Vale ● Blackley, West Yorkshire ● Church of St Mary, Elland ● Elland ● Church of All Saints, Elland ● Suma (co-operative) ● Elland Power Station ● Ainley Top ● South Pennine Ring ● Elland Upper Edge ● Lindley, Huddersfield ● Salendine Nook ● Huddersfield Royal Infirmary ● Birkby, Huddersfield ● Oakes, Huddersfield ● Quarmby ● Longwood trolleybus turntable ● Cowcliffe ● Edgerton, Huddersfield ● Marsh, Huddersfield ● Longwood, Huddersfield ● Huddersfield workhouse scandal
● Kirklees EfW ● Fartown, Huddersfield ● Kirklees Stadium ● Pennine Radio Limited ● Huddersfield factory fire ● St Mark’s Church, Huddersfield ● Huddersfield Media Centre project ● Huddersfield sidings ● Turnbridge Lift Bridge ● Rugby League Heritage Centre ● Rugby Football League Hall of Fame ● George Hotel, Huddersfield ● St Patrick’s Church, Huddersfield ● Turnbridge ● Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield ● Sheepridge, Huddersfield ● Kingsgate, Huddersfield ● Rawthorpe ● Lawrence Batley Theatre ● Huddersfield Art Gallery ● Brackenhall ● Greenhead Park ● Huddersfield Town Hall ● University of Huddersfield ● Springwood, Huddersfield ● Aspley, Huddersfield ● Moldgreen ● Deighton, Huddersfield ● St Thomas’s Church, Huddersfield ● Longroyd Bridge ● River Holme ● Thornton Lodge ● Paddock, Huddersfield ● Bradley, Huddersfield ● Milnsbridge ● Fartown Ground ● Huddersfield Town A.F.C. ● Netherhall Learning Campus ● Huddersfield ● Elland Town Hall
Getting to / around Fixby – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Fixby using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Fixby places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Fixby Public Transport Stations
Fixby Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Brighouse bus station
Clifton Road railway station
Brighouse railway station
Elland railway station
Huddersfield power station
Huddersfield bus station
Deighton railway station
Bradley railway station
Longwood and Milnsbridge railway station
Huddersfield railway station
Leeds Road
Beaumont Street Studios
St Paul’s Street drill hall, Huddersfield
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Local Fixby historians & Fixby tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Fixby? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Fixby’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 Fixby 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 Fixby 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 Fixby 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-Fixby’ web pages (for example: www.visitFixby.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 Fixby places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Fixby places to visit. A unique way to experience Fixby’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Fixby as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Fixby places with Walkfo Fixby to hear history at Fixby’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Fixby has 72 places to visit in our interactive Fixby 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 Fixby, 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 Fixby places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Fixby & the surrounding areas.
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Trying to encourage visitors to Fixby?