Welcome to Visit Newton-in-Furness Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Newton-in-Furness
Visit Newton-in-Furness places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Newton-in-Furness places to visit. A unique way to experience Newton-in-Furness’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Newton-in-Furness as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Newton-in-Furness Walkfo Preview Newton is a village in the civil parish of Dalton Town with Newton, in the Barrow-in-Furness district, in Cumbria, England. It is located on the Furness peninsula north-east of the port of Barrow and south of the town of Dalton. It was listed in the Domesday Book as being one of the vills or townships forming the Manor of Hougun. When you visit Newton-in-Furness, Walkfo brings Newton-in-Furness places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Newton-in-Furness Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Newton-in-Furness
Visit Newton-in-Furness – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 55 audio plaques & Newton-in-Furness places for you to explore in the Newton-in-Furness area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Newton-in-Furness places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
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You can visit Newton-in-Furness places with Walkfo Newton-in-Furness to hear history at Newton-in-Furness’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Newton-in-Furness has 55 places to visit in our interactive Newton-in-Furness 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 Newton-in-Furness, 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 Newton-in-Furness places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Newton-in-Furness & the surrounding areas.
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Best Newton-in-Furness places to visit
Newton-in-Furness has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Newton-in-Furness’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Newton-in-Furness’s information audio spots:
Thorncliffe Cemetery and Crematorium Thorncliffe Cemetery and Crematorium is a 66-acre graveyard in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. The cemetery opened in 1872 and a crematorium was added to the site in 1962. 189 identified war casualties are buried there.
Holker Old Boys A.F.C. Holker Old Boys Association Football Club is based in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. They are currently members of the North West Counties League Division One North and play at Rakesmoor.
Furness General Hospital Furness General Hospital is located in the Hawcoat area of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. It is managed by the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust.
Barrow-in-Furness power station Barrow-in-Furness power station supplied electricity to the town and wider area of Lancashire from 1899 to about 1960. It was owned and operated by Barrow in-furness Corporation until the nationalisation of the electricity supply industry in 1948.
Nan Tait Centre Nan Tait Centre is a Grade II listed building located in Hindpool area of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. It was built for the Barrow Corporation as the town’s new Technical School. The centre was named in honour of Agnes “Nan” Tait, the Mayor of the Borough of Barrows from 1959 to 1960. It is now multifunctional serving as a cultural, exhibition and arts centre.
Trinity Church, Barrow-in-Furness Trinity Church was a Presbyterian church located on School Street in Barrow-in-Furness, England. It is not the same building as the joint Methodist and URC church in Parkside, Barrow, known as the Trinity Church Centre.
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.
Visit Newton-in-Furness plaques
3 plaques hereNewton-in-Furness has 3 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Newton-in-Furness 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 Newton-in-Furness using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Newton-in-Furness plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Newton-in-Furness audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Newton-in-Furness allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Newton-in-Furness’s 55 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Newton-in-Furness freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Newton-in-Furness Map App
Our visit Newton-in-Furness map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Newton-in-Furness & 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 Newton-in-Furness tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Newton-in-Furness centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Newton-in-Furness area at LONG:-3.179, LAT:54.134.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Newton-in-Furness, 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 Newton-in-Furness / surrounding areas
● Romney Cottage ● Ormsgill ● Thorncliffe Cemetery and Crematorium ● Holker Old Boys A.F.C. ● Hawcoat ● Ernest Pass Memorial Ground ● Furness General Hospital ● Infield House ● St. James’ Church, Barrow-in-Furness ● Abbey House, Barrow-in-Furness ● Parkside, Barrow-in-Furness ● Furness Abbey Hotel ● Furness Abbey ● Emlyn Hughes House ● Ritz Cinema, Barrow-in-Furness ● Hindpool ● Barrow Park Cenotaph ● The Duke of Edinburgh Hotel ● Oxford Chambers ● Barrow Park ● Cooke’s Building ● Co-operative Building, Barrow-in-Furness ● Abbot’s Wood, Cumbria ● Nan Tait Centre ● Newbarns ● Ramsden Hall ● Roxy Cinema, Barrow-in-Furness ● Bow Bridge, Cumbria ● Portland Walk Shopping Centre ● 2002 Barrow-in-Furness legionellosis outbreak
● The Forum, Barrow-in-Furness ● Trinity Church, Barrow-in-Furness ● Central Barrow ● St. George’s Church, Barrow-in-Furness ● St. George’s Square, Barrow-in-Furness ● Salthouse, Barrow-in-Furness ● Risedale ● Cavendish Dock ● Roosecote Power Station ● Rampside Gas Terminal ● Yarlside Iron Mines tramway ● Newton-in-Furness ● Dalton Town with Newton ● Dalton South ● Dalton Castle ● Dalton-in-Furness ● Dendron, Cumbria ● Stainton with Adgarley ● Gleaston Castle ● Gleaston ● South Lakes Safari Zoo ● St Mary’s Church, Dalton-in-Furness ● Stollers
Getting to / around Newton-in-Furness – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Newton-in-Furness using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Newton-in-Furness places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Newton-in-Furness historians & Newton-in-Furness tour guides
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Visit Newton-in-Furness places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Newton-in-Furness places to visit. A unique way to experience Newton-in-Furness’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Newton-in-Furness as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Newton-in-Furness places with Walkfo Newton-in-Furness to hear history at Newton-in-Furness’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Newton-in-Furness has 55 places to visit in our interactive Newton-in-Furness 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 Newton-in-Furness, 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 Newton-in-Furness places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Newton-in-Furness & the surrounding areas.
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