Welcome to Visit Howe Bridge Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Howe Bridge
Visit Howe Bridge places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Howe Bridge places to visit. A unique way to experience Howe Bridge’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Howe Bridge as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Howe Bridge Walkfo Preview When you visit Howe Bridge, Walkfo brings Howe Bridge places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Visit Howe Bridge – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 72 audio plaques & Howe Bridge places for you to explore in the Howe Bridge area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Howe Bridge places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Howe Bridge history
John Fletcher of Bolton came to Atherton in 1768 to sink two shafts. Ralph Fletcher was part-owner in the Ladyshore Colliery. Howe Bridge Colliery employed 460 men in 1954.
Howe Bridge landmarks
Fletcher, Burrows and Company built a model village on Leigh Road, Atherton Collieries Village Club and bath house for their employees. This Victorian village on either side of Leigh Road is a conservation area.
Why visit Howe Bridge with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Howe Bridge places with Walkfo Howe Bridge to hear history at Howe Bridge’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Howe Bridge has 72 places to visit in our interactive Howe Bridge 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 Howe Bridge, 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 Howe Bridge places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Howe Bridge & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo Howe Bridge tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Howe Bridge
Best Howe Bridge places to visit
Howe Bridge has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Howe Bridge’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Howe Bridge’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 .
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.
Tyldesley Top Chapel Top Chapel was built in 1789 on a site of 1,300 square yards at the top of Tyldesley Banks opposite the Square. The site and building materials were all provided by Thomas Johnson. It was properly known as “The Lady Huntingdon Chapel” but became known as Top Chapel because of its position.
Tyldesley Urban District Tyldesley cum Shakerley Urban District was, from 1894 to 1974, a local government district in Lancashire, England.
St George’s Church, Tyldesley St George’s Church is part of Leigh deanery in the archdeaconry of Salford and the diocese of Manchester. It was founded as a chapel of ease of the parish church in Leigh in 1825. The church was extended at the east end and re-seated in the 1880s and has survived two fires.
Visit Howe Bridge plaques
3 plaques hereHowe Bridge has 3 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Howe Bridge 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 Howe Bridge using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Howe Bridge plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Howe Bridge audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Howe Bridge allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Howe Bridge’s 72 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Howe Bridge freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Howe Bridge Map App
Our visit Howe Bridge map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Howe Bridge & 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 Howe Bridge tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Howe Bridge centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Howe Bridge area at LONG:-2.5047, LAT:53.5201.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Howe Bridge, 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 Howe Bridge / 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 ● Bickershaw ● Howe Bridge Mines Rescue Station ● St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Howe Bridge ● Leigh Spinners ● Atherton Urban District ● Howe Bridge ● Hindley Green ● 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 ● Atherton Town Hall ● St John the Baptist’s Church, Atherton ● Atherton Laburnum Rovers F.C. ● Over Hulton ● Pretoria Pit disaster ● Atherton, Greater Manchester ● Gibfield Colliery ● Westhoughton Town Hall ● Westhoughton Mill ● Westhoughton Urban District ● Westhoughton ● St James’ Church, Daisy Hill ● Daisy Hill F.C. ● Hart Common ● Tyldesley
Getting to / around Howe Bridge – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Howe Bridge using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Howe Bridge places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Howe Bridge Public Transport Stations
Howe Bridge Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Westleigh railway station
Atherleigh railway station
Leigh railway station (Lancashire)
Hindley Green railway station
Howe Bridge railway station
Tyldesley railway station
Atherton railway station
Chequerbent railway station
Chequerbent railway station (Bolton and Leigh Railway)
Hag Fold railway station
Atherton Bag Lane railway station
Daisy Hill railway station
A572 road
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Local Howe Bridge historians & Howe Bridge tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Howe Bridge? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Howe Bridge’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 Howe Bridge 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 Howe Bridge 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 Howe Bridge 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-Howe Bridge’ web pages (for example: www.visitHowe Bridge.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 Howe Bridge places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Howe Bridge places to visit. A unique way to experience Howe Bridge’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Howe Bridge as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Howe Bridge places with Walkfo Howe Bridge to hear history at Howe Bridge’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Howe Bridge has 72 places to visit in our interactive Howe Bridge 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 Howe Bridge, 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 Howe Bridge places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Howe Bridge & the surrounding areas.
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