Welcome to Visit Grotton Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Grotton
Visit Grotton places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Grotton places to visit. A unique way to experience Grotton’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Grotton as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Grotton is a residential area in Saddleworth, a civil parish of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, in Greater Manchester. Historically a rural hamlet close to the boundary with Lancashire. The urbanisation took place following the Industrial Revolution in the 1930s. The former railway line to Oldham Mumps railway station closed in 1962. When you visit Grotton, Walkfo brings Grotton places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Grotton Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Grotton
Visit Grotton – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 49 audio plaques & Grotton places for you to explore in the Grotton area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Grotton places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Grotton with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Grotton places with Walkfo Grotton to hear history at Grotton’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Grotton has 49 places to visit in our interactive Grotton 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 Grotton, 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 Grotton places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Grotton & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 49 audio facts unique to Grotton places in an interactive Grotton map you can explore.”
Walkfo: Visit Grotton Places Map
49 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
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Best Grotton places to visit
Grotton has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Grotton’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Grotton’s information audio spots:
Orme Mill, Waterhead
Orme Mill, Waterhead is a cotton spinning mill in Waterhead, Oldham, Greater Manchester. It was built in 1908 and was taken over by Lancashire Cotton Corporation in the 1930s. Production finished in 1960 and the mill was passed on to Ferranti in 1964.
St James’ Church, Oldham
St James’ Church is in Barry Street, Greenacres Moor, Oldham, Greater Manchester. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Oldham East, the archdeaconry of Rochdale, and the diocese of Manchester. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
Greenhill power station
Greenhill power station was built over the period 1921–24 and was decommissioned in 1960. It replaced the older Rhodes Bank generating station and was superseded by Chadderton B power station.
Mossley (ward)
Mossley is an electoral ward of Tameside, England. It is represented in Westminster by Jonathan Reynolds Labour Co-operative MP for Stalybridge and Hyde.
Hartshead Pike
Hartshead Pike is a hill in Tameside in Greater Manchester, England. It overlooks Ashton-under-Lyne, Mossley, Saddleworth, Lees and Oldham.
Visit Grotton plaques
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here Grotton has 8 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Grotton 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 Grotton using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Grotton plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
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