Welcome to Visit Higher Folds Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Higher Folds
Visit Higher Folds places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Higher Folds places to visit. A unique way to experience Higher Folds’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Higher Folds as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Higher Folds Walkfo Preview Higher Folds is 10 miles from Manchester in the unparished area of Leigh, in the Wigan district. In 2018 it had an estimated population of 2,770. Shaun Keaveny grew up in the town and grew up there. When you visit Higher Folds, Walkfo brings Higher Folds places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Visit Higher Folds – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 76 audio plaques & Higher Folds places for you to explore in the Higher Folds area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Higher Folds places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Higher Folds history
In 2001 Higher Folds had the highest number of divorced people in England, in 2005 it ranked within the 8% most disadvantaged Super Output Areas in England.
Why visit Higher Folds with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Higher Folds places with Walkfo Higher Folds to hear history at Higher Folds’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Higher Folds has 76 places to visit in our interactive Higher Folds 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 Higher Folds, 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 Higher Folds places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Higher Folds & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo Higher Folds tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Higher Folds
Best Higher Folds places to visit
Higher Folds has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Higher Folds’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Higher Folds’s information audio spots:
Parsonage Colliery Parsonage Colliery was a coal mine operating on the Lancashire Coalfield . It was sunk between 1913 and 1920 by the Wigan Coal and Iron Company . For many years its shafts to the Arley mine were the deepest in the country .
Mather Lane Mill Mather Lane Mills was a complex of cotton mills built by the Bridgewater Canal in Bedford, Leigh in Lancashire . The No 2 mill and its former warehouse are grade II listed buildings .
Howe Bridge Colliery Howe Bridge Colliery was part of Fletcher, Burrows and Company’s collieries at Howe Bridge in Atherton, Greater Manchester, then in the historic county of Lancashire .
Leigh Spinners Leigh Spinners or Leigh Mill is a Grade II* listed double cotton spinning mill in Bedford, Leigh, Greater Manchester . The mill was built in the 1930s .
St John’s Church, Mosley Common St John’s Church is an active church built in 1886. It is part of Leigh deanery in the archdeaconry of Salford, diocese of Manchester.
Garrett Hall Garrett Hall or The Garrett is a former manor house in Tyldesley, Greater Manchester. The hall was designated a grade II listed building in 1987.
Great Boys Colliery Great Boys Colliery was a coal mine operating on the Manchester Coalfield in the second half of the 19th century. It was sunk on Great Boys farm, which in 1778 was described as a “messuage with eight Cheshire acres of land” The offices and lamproom for the pit occupied the building that is now the Colliers Arms public house, on Sale Lane.
Damhouse Damhouse or Astley Hall is a Grade II* Listed building in Astley, Greater Manchester. It has served as a manor house, sanatorium and sanatorium. Since restoration in 2000, it houses offices, a clinic, nursery and tearooms.
St Stephen’s Church, Astley St Stephen’s Church is an active Anglican church in Astley, Greater Manchester. It was built in 1968 and part of Leigh deanery in the archdeaconry of Salford and diocese of Manchester.
Higher Folds Higher Folds is 10 miles from Manchester in the unparished area of Leigh, in the Wigan district. In 2018 it had an estimated population of 2,770. Shaun Keaveny grew up in the town and grew up there.
Visit Higher Folds plaques
0 plaques hereHigher Folds has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Higher Folds 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 Higher Folds using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Higher Folds plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Higher Folds audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Higher Folds allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Higher Folds’s 76 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Higher Folds freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Higher Folds Map App
Our visit Higher Folds map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Higher Folds & 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 Higher Folds tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Higher Folds centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Higher Folds area at LONG:-2.4834, LAT:53.503355.
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Things to do & visit in Higher Folds / surrounding areas
● Parsonage Colliery ● St Peter’s Church, Westleigh, Greater Manchester ● Hilton Park (stadium) ● Municipal Borough of Leigh ● Westleigh, Greater Manchester ● St Mary the Virgin’s Church, Leigh ● Leigh Town Hall ● Leigh Sports Village ● Leigh, Greater Manchester ● Christ Church, Pennington ● Leigh Union workhouse ● Leigh Infirmary ● Mather Lane Mill ● St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, Leigh ● Howe Bridge Colliery ● Red Rose Forest ● Pennington, Greater Manchester ● Bedford, Greater Manchester ● Atherton Hall, Leigh ● Bedford Colliery disaster ● Bedford Colliery ● Howe Bridge Mines Rescue Station ● St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Howe Bridge ● Leigh Spinners ● Atherton Urban District ● Howe Bridge ● Boothstown ● Mosley Common ● St John’s Church, Mosley Common ● Chaddock Hall
● New Lester Colliery ● Garrett Hall ● Great Boys Colliery ● Yew Tree Colliery ● Astley, Greater Manchester ● Astley Green Colliery Museum ● Astley Green Colliery ● New Hall moated site ● Cleworth Hall Colliery ● Damhouse ● St Stephen’s Church, Astley ● Bedford Hall ● Higher Folds ● Wellington Pit ● Tyldesley Town Hall ● Combermere Colliery ● Tyldesley Top Chapel ● Tyldesley Urban District ● Nelson Pit ● Barnfield Mills ● Tyldesley Little Theatre ● Shakerley Colliery (Greens) ● St George’s Church, Tyldesley ● Chanters Colliery ● Nook Colliery ● St George’s Colliery ● Shakerley ● Peelwood Colliery ● Gin Pit Colliery ● Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, Hindsford ● Hindsford ● St Anne’s Church, Hindsford ● Atherton Collieries A.F.C. ● Chowbent Chapel ● Leigh Rural District ● Atherton Town Hall ● St John the Baptist’s Church, Atherton ● Atherton Laburnum Rovers F.C. ● Morleys Hall ● Pretoria Pit disaster ● Atherton, Greater Manchester ● Gibfield Colliery ● Daisy Hill F.C. ● Tyldesley
Getting to / around Higher Folds – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Higher Folds using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Higher Folds places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Higher Folds Public Transport Stations
Higher Folds Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Westleigh railway station
Atherleigh railway station
Leigh railway station (Lancashire)
Howe Bridge railway station
Tyldesley railway station
Atherton railway station
Hag Fold railway station
Atherton Bag Lane railway station
Flow Moss railway station
A572 road
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Local Higher Folds historians & Higher Folds tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Higher Folds? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Higher Folds’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 Higher Folds 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 Higher Folds 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 Higher Folds 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-Higher Folds’ web pages (for example: www.visitHigher Folds.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 Higher Folds places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Higher Folds places to visit. A unique way to experience Higher Folds’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Higher Folds as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
With 76 audio plaques & Higher Folds places for you to explore in the Higher Folds area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Higher Folds places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
You can visit Higher Folds places with Walkfo Higher Folds to hear history at Higher Folds’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Higher Folds has 76 places to visit in our interactive Higher Folds 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 Higher Folds, 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 Higher Folds places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Higher Folds & the surrounding areas.
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