Tourist's guide to visit Newton-le-Willows

Visit Newton-le-Willows – things to do & explore

Overview of Newton-le-Willows history & facts by Walkfo

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Newton-le-Willows is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, in Merseyside, England. The population at the 2011 census was 22,114. Newton-le-Willows is geographically located between Manchester and St Helens and is part of the historic county of Lancashire.

Newton-le-Willows history

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The name Newton means “new town”, while Makerfield (incorrect reference) is an ancient name for the district from the Brittonic word “mager” meaning “wall” combined with the English word “field”. Neweton was mentioned in the Domesday Book. “In Makerfield” was added to distinguish it from other Newtons and recorded as Makeresfeld in 1205 and 1351, as Makefeld in 1206, Makerefeld in 1213 and Makerfield since 1242. Before the Norman Conquest, Newton was head of a hundred. The Domesday hundred was assessed at five hides one of which included Newton. The lord of the manor was Edward the Confessor at his death in 1066. The Newton Hundred was subsequently combined with the Warrington and Derby Hundreds to form the West Derby Hundred. The fields between Newton and Winwick were the site of one of the last battles of the Second English Civil War. Newton has two railway stations. Newton-le-Willows railway station and Earlestown railway station, opened in 1830. They are two of the oldest railway stations. Earlestown was an important junction where the original Liverpool and Manchester Railway line was joined by the 1837 line running south to Birmingham. The town also had three other railway stations, situated at Parkside, the Vulcan Village, and the old racecourse (which closed when Haydock Park Racecourse was opened). Parkside is notable as the site of the world’s first fatal rail accident, at which William Huskisson died. Two other local railway related landmarks are Newton Viaduct and the Sankey Viaduct which is locally known as the “Nine Arches”.

Newton-le-Willows geography / climate

Newton-le-Willows is located off the A580 East Lancashire Road between Liverpool and Manchester in north-west England. It is in the east of the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens in Merseyside, near to the border with Wigan in Greater Manchester. To the south is the Borough of Warrington in Cheshire. The wider built-up area of Newton-le-Willows includes Earlestown and areas of Wargrave and Vulcan Village.

You can visit Newton-le-Willows, COUNTY/BOROUGH & use Walkfo to discover the best walking places with our free digital tour guide app created especially for Newton-le-Willows. Walkfo Newton-le-Willows has 300 locations with history, culture & travel facts, that you can explore the same way you can a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Newton-le-Willows, being in the moment, without digital distraction and no limitations to a specific walking route – you choose where you want to go, when you want to go and Walkfo Newton-le-Willows will keep up.

When you visit Newton-le-Willows

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When you visit Newton-le-Willows, Walkfo is your digital tour guide while exploring by foot, bike or bus. With numerous walks, hikes, tourist locations & travel destinations available in Newton-le-Willows, our travel AI guide helps you get the best from your visit to Newton-le-Willows & the surrounding areas. Our explore Newton-le-Willows app for iPhone & Android, allows you to experience the hidden history, culture and amazing facts throughout Newton-le-Willows whilst out walking. The digital tour guide creates interactive audio stories driven by where you walk, so you can exploration Newton-le-Willows’s National Heritage sites, tourist attractions, historic locations or city streets freely, without the restrictions of a predefined walk & walk map.

“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 0 audio facts in Newton-le-Willows alone that form an interactive Newton-le-Willows walking map for you to explore.”

Best Newton-le-Willows places to visit

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Newton-le-Willows has hundreds of places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are five of Newton-le-Willows’s best destinations to visit when exploring the area. We have condensed the information with much more detail available within Walkfo when you visit the destinations.

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Experience Newton-le-Willows audio walks & tours

Visiting Newton-le-Willows with Walkfo’s things to do interactive map
The “Newton-le-Willows things to do map” below is a preview of the places you can visit in Newton-le-Willows and surrounding areas with our digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has content for a plaque, a building, a street or general area, providing history, culture or tourism information the you can explore.

Interactive ‘Explore Newton-le-Willows Map’     This Newton-le-Willows tourism map shows points of interest within a 4km radius of Newton-le-Willows centre

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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Newton-le-Willows, 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.

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Things to do & visit in Newton-le-Willows and surrounding areas

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Getting to / around Newton-le-Willows – transport links, stations, streets & traffic map

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Getting around in Newton-le-Willows using public transportation may include roads, streets, trains, undergrounds, buses or trams. Walkfo has the following important Newton-le-Willows public transport locations with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:

Newton-le-Willows Notable Public Transport Stations		Newton-le-Willows Notable Streets & Roads

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