Welcome to Visit Great Horton Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Great Horton
Visit Great Horton places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Great Horton places to visit. A unique way to experience Great Horton’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Great Horton as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Great Horton Walkfo Preview Great Horton is a ward of the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, with a population of 17,683 at the 2011 Census. It is west of Bradford and east of the village of Clayton and also includes Scholemore, Paradise Green, Lidget Green and Pickles Hill. When you visit Great Horton, Walkfo brings Great Horton places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Great Horton Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Great Horton
Visit Great Horton – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 95 audio plaques & Great Horton places for you to explore in the Great Horton area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Great Horton places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Great Horton with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Great Horton places with Walkfo Great Horton to hear history at Great Horton’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Great Horton has 95 places to visit in our interactive Great Horton 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 Great Horton, 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 Great Horton places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Great Horton & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Great Horton tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Great Horton
Best Great Horton places to visit
Great Horton has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Great Horton’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Great Horton’s information audio spots:
Birch Lane Birch Lane was the first long term home of Bradford Northern Rugby League Football Club. It was also home to Bradford F.C. in their first incarnation as a football club. The ground was described as “notorious” and a “poverty-stricken place”
Odsal Stadium Odsal Stadium in Bradford is home to Bradford Bulls Rugby League team. It has also been used by the Bradford Dukes speedway team, BRISCA F1 and F2 stock cars, the football team Bradford City, following the Valley Parade fire, and for baseball, basketball, kabbadi, show jumping, tennis, live music, and the 1997 Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain. The stadium is owned by Bradford City Council, but due to financial problems the Rugby Football League purchased the lease on it in 2012.
East Bowling East Bowling is an area of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England located to the south of Bradford city centre. It forms the eastern half of the historic township and manor of Bowling. Bowling became a ward of the newly created Borough of Bradford in 1847.
Iraq Economic Development Group The Iraq Economic Development Group (also frequently abbreviated to IEDG) is an apolitical private limited company established in United Kingdom that facilitates financial services in Britain. Its official abbreviated form is IEDg_UK Ltd and its abbreviated word is commonly used.
Bradford Alhambra The Alhambra Theatre was built in 1913 at a cost of £20,000 for theatre impresario Francis Laidler. In 1964, Bradford City Council bought the theatre for £78,900 and in 1974 it was designated a Grade II listed building.
Bradford City Park Bradford City Park is a public space in the centre of Bradford, West Yorkshire. It is centred on the Grade I listed Bradford City Hall. It comprises three main areas (each side of the triangular City Hall site.) To the east of the City Hall is the Norfolk Gardens area.
The 1 in 12 Club The 1 in 12 Club refers to both a members’ club and the building in which it is based. Owned and run by its membership as a collective based upon anarchist principles. In the 1980s it was one of the main locations for the UK crust and anarcho-punk scene.
Wool Exchange, Bradford The Wool Exchange Building in Bradford, West Yorkshire, was built as a wool-trading centre in the 19th century. The Gothic Revival architecture is symbolic of the wealth and importance wool brought to Bradford. Today it is a Waterstones bookshop as well as a cafe.
Bradford (Park Avenue) A.F.C. Bradford (Park Avenue) Association Football Club is a football club in Bradford, West Yorkshire. The club is a reincarnation of the club which played in the Football League from 1908 to 1970. The new entity, established in 1987, currently competes in the National League North.
St Patrick’s Church, Bradford St Patrick’s Church is a Roman Catholic church in Bradford, West Yorkshire. It was built from 1852 to 1853 and designed by George Goldie. It is situated on the corner of Sedgfield Terrace and Westgate in the city centre.
Visit Great Horton plaques
30 plaques hereGreat Horton has 30 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Great Horton 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 Great Horton using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Great Horton plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Great Horton audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Great Horton allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Great Horton’s 95 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Great Horton freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Great Horton Map App
Our visit Great Horton map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Great Horton & 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 Great Horton tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Great Horton centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Great Horton area at LONG:-1.796, LAT:53.782.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Great Horton, 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.
Things to do & visit in Great Horton / surrounding areas
● Trident, West Yorkshire ● Birch Lane ● Park Avenue (stadium) ● St Luke’s Hospital, Bradford ● Staithgate ● Wibsey ● Odsal Stadium ● Citygate Bradford ● Little Horton ● Broomfields, Bradford ● Ripley Ville ● East Bowling ● Bradford Burns Unit ● Bolling Hall, Bradford ● Reconciliation (Josefina de Vasconcellos sculpture) ● National Science and Media Museum ● Iraq Economic Development Group ● Pictureville Cinema ● University of Bradford ● Bradford War Memorial ● Bradford Alhambra ● City of Bradford ● Bradford Interchange ● Bradford Odeon ● Bradford City Hall ● Impressions Gallery ● Bradford City Park ● St George’s Hall, Bradford ● Sunbridge Wells ● Swan Arcade, Bradford
● Telegraph & Argus ● BD1 Gallery ● Bradford Mechanics’ Institute Library ● The 1 in 12 Club ● City (ward) ● Wool Exchange, Bradford ● Colour Experience ● Peace Museum, Bradford ● Bradford (Park Avenue) A.F.C. ● Horsfall Stadium ● 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning ● High Point, Bradford ● The Broadway, Bradford ● Midland Hotel, Bradford ● Longlands, Bradford ● Bradford Playhouse ● Great Horton ● Harold Park, Bradford ● St Patrick’s Church, Bradford ● The Gatehaus ● Diocese of Bradford ● Paper Hall ● Royds, Bradford ● Low Moor, Bradford ● Low Moor Ironworks ● Drummond Mill ● Timeline of Bradford ● Bradford Tree of Life Synagogue ● Buttershaw ● LIFE Church UK ● Toller ● Campion A.F.C. ● Bradford Royal Infirmary ● Lister Mills ● Girlington ● Lynfield Mount Hospital ● Heaton, West Yorkshire ● Bradford Children’s Hospital ● Cartwright Hall ● Lister Park ● Manningham, Bradford ● Belle Vue, Bradford ● Manningham engine shed ● Valley Parade ● Bradford City stadium fire ● Allerton, West Yorkshire ● Beckfoot Thornton ● Thornton and Allerton ● Al Mahdi Mosque, Bradford ● Thornton View Hospital ● Clayton, West Yorkshire ● Queensbury and Shelf Urban District ● Bethel Chapel, Shelf ● St Michael and All Angels Church, Shelf, West Yorkshire ● Queensbury, West Yorkshire ● Shelf, West Yorkshire ● Royds Hall ● Thornton, West Yorkshire ● Bradford City A.F.C. ● Bowling Park, Bradford ● Bradford Dale (Yorkshire) ● Bradford Cathedral ● Bradford
Getting to / around Great Horton – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Great Horton using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Great Horton places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Great Horton Public Transport Stations
Great Horton Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Manchester Road railway station (West Yorkshire)
Bowling Junction railway station
Horton Park railway station
St Dunstans railway station
Great Horton railway station
Bradford Adolphus Street railway station
Bowling railway station (England)
Bradford Forster Square railway station
Manningham railway station
Bradford power station
Clayton railway station (England)
Queensbury railway station
Bradford Exchange railway station
Great Horton Road (Cricket Ground)
Bradford Hammerton Street Depot
City Road Goods Branch
A6177 road
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Local Great Horton historians & Great Horton tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Great Horton? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Great Horton’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 Great Horton 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 Great Horton 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 Great Horton 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-Great Horton’ web pages (for example: www.visitGreat Horton.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