Visit Leece Places

Welcome to Visit Leece Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Leece

  

Leece Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Leece

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Leece history

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The name Leece is probably from the Old English leah, which means ‘woodland clearing’ It was recorded in the Domesday Book as Lies, in the Manor of Hougun held by Earl Tostig. Leece used to contain the United Methodist Free Church, founded in 1881, but closed in 1912.

You can visit Leece places with Walkfo Leece to hear history at Leece’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Leece has 32 places to visit in our interactive Leece 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 Leece, 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 Leece places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Leece & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 32 audio facts unique to Leece places in an interactive Leece map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Leece Places Map
32 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Leece historic spots	Leece tourist destinations	Leece plaques	Leece geographic features
Walkfo Leece tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Leece

  

Best Leece places to visit

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

Salthouse, Barrow-in-Furness Salthouse is an area of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. It was historically a ward in its own right but has since been subsumed into the wards of Risedale and Central Barrow. It has been undergoing the transformation into a modern, outperforming 17-acre industrial site.

Roosecote Power Station Roosecote Power Station was a gas-fired, originally coal-fired power station, situated in Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, North West England. It was mothballed in 2012 after a proposed biomass power station was cancelled. The plant was demolished between 2014 and 2015.

Rampside Gas Terminal Rampside Gas Terminal is a gas terminal situated in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. It connects to gas fields in Morecambe Bay. It is situated adjacent to the former Roosecote Power Station.

Yarlside Iron Mines tramway The Yarlside Iron Mines tramway or Parkhouse Mineral Railway was built as a one-mile (1.6 km) long innovative railway from the Parkhouse Haematite Ore Mines to the Roose railway station on the Furness Railway. Similar to a monorail, it had stabilising side rollers, invented and patented by John Barraclough Fell.

Dalton Town with Newton Dalton Town with Newton is a civil parish in the Barrow-in-Furness district, in the county of Cumbria, England. In 2018 it had an estimated population of 7807. The parish touches Aldingham, Askam and Ireleth, Lindal and Marton and Urswick.

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