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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Fountainhead Village


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Fountainhead is a hamlet in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, built on the old site of the Webster’s Brewery at the turn of the 21st century. It is situated approximately 2 miles (3 km) north-west from Halifax town centre. The Maltings College opened in 2013 and offered a range of vocational sixth form courses until its closure in 2018. When you visit Fountainhead Village, Walkfo brings Fountainhead Village places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

Fountainhead Village Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Fountainhead Village


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With 53 audio plaques & Fountainhead Village places for you to explore in the Fountainhead Village area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Fountainhead Village places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

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Visit Fountainhead Village PlacesYou can visit Fountainhead Village places with Walkfo Fountainhead Village to hear history at Fountainhead Village’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Fountainhead Village has 53 places to visit in our interactive Fountainhead Village 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 Fountainhead Village, 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 Fountainhead Village places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Fountainhead Village & the surrounding areas.

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Best Fountainhead Village places to visit


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

Fountainhead Village photo Eureka! (museum)
Eureka! The National Children’s Museum is an interactive educational museum for children in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, with a focus on learning through play. It is run as an educational charity and not-for-profit organisation. Eureka! is based on the North American model of children’s museums, aimed at families with children aged 0–11 and encourages hands-on inter-generational learning.
Fountainhead Village photo Borough Market, Halifax
Borough Market is a Victorian covered market in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. The market occupies a town centre site between Southgate, Albion Street and Market Street. The glass and wrought iron covered marketplace, surrounded by stone built shops and accommodation, was built between 1891 and 1896 and opened by the future King George V and Queen Mary. The design included three public houses on the Market Street side and fishmongers’ shops on Albion Street with the remaining exterior shops all being butchers’ shops. The award-winning market is open six days a week with some 125 market stalls.
Fountainhead Village photo Wellesley Barracks
Wellesley Barracks is a military installation in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest military base in the UK and is located in the city of Halifax.
Fountainhead Village photo King Cross
King Cross is an ecclesiastical parish created in 1845 in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire. It is located along the top of a ridge above the town of Halifax. During the English Civil War, King Cross was a key outpost for the Parliamentarians.
Fountainhead Village photo St Mary’s Church, Halifax
St Mary’s Church or St Marie’s Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Halifax, West Yorkshire. It was built from 1836 to 1839. It is situated on the corner of Gibbet Street and Clarence Street, next to Burdock Way.
Fountainhead Village photo High Sunderland Hall
High Sunderland Hall was a manor house, built c. 1600 just outside Halifax, West Yorkshire. It was demolished in 1951 after falling into dereliction. The house is perhaps best known for having supposedly provided Emily Brontë with her description of Wuthering Heights.
Fountainhead Village photo The Shay
Halifax Town football and Halifax Panthers rugby league clubs both play home games at the Shay. The North and South stands were built in the mid-1990s. The Shay lies on the south side of Halifax, about a quarter of a mile from the town centre.

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Fountainhead Village has 3 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Fountainhead Village 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 Fountainhead Village using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Fountainhead Village plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.