Welcome to Visit North Scale Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in North Scale
Visit North Scale places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best North Scale places to visit. A unique way to experience North Scale’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore North Scale as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting North Scale Walkfo Preview North Scale is one of only four settlements on the Isle of Walney, Cumbria. It is the northernmost settlement, lying a mile north of Vickerstown. When you visit North Scale, Walkfo brings North Scale places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
North Scale Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about North Scale
Visit North Scale – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 82 audio plaques & North Scale places for you to explore in the North Scale area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best North Scale places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
North Scale history
North Scale was first identified as an agricultural settlement owned by Furness Abbey in 1247. As a Parliamentarian stronghold in the English Civil War it was briefly sieged by Royalists. In 1865, the Crown Inn opened in North Scale.
Why visit North Scale with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit North Scale places with Walkfo North Scale to hear history at North Scale’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo North Scale has 82 places to visit in our interactive North Scale 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 North Scale, 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 North Scale places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to North Scale & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo North Scale tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in North Scale
Best North Scale places to visit
North Scale has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied North Scale’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo North Scale’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.
St Mary of Furness Roman Catholic Church St Mary of Furness is a Roman Catholic church located in Barrow-in-Furness, England. The congregation was founded in 1858, however the current building was constructed between 1866 and 1867. It is a Grade II* listed building.
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.
Furness Building Society Established in 1865, Furness Building Society is the 17th largest in the United Kingdom based on total assets of £813 million as at 31 December 2010. The Society expanded its call centre in 2009 to deal with investments and insurance queries.
Craven House Craven House (also known as Fisher House) is a large office building in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. Constructed in the 1960s the building is noted for its length of roughly 90 m (300 ft) and consists of seven floors. The gross floor area stands at around 8,100 square metres (87,000 sq ft)
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.
Visit North Scale plaques
2 plaques hereNorth Scale has 2 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo North Scale 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 North Scale using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each North Scale plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience North Scale audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in North Scale allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of North Scale’s 82 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore North Scale freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore North Scale Map App
Our visit North Scale map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in North Scale & 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 North Scale tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the North Scale centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit North Scale area at LONG:-3.25502, LAT:54.11978.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore North Scale, 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 North Scale / 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 ● North Walney ● St. James’ Church, Barrow-in-Furness ● Parkside, Barrow-in-Furness ● Emlyn Hughes House ● Ritz Cinema, Barrow-in-Furness ● Hindpool ● Scotch Buildings ● Barrow Park Cenotaph ● The Duke of Edinburgh Hotel ● Oxford Chambers ● Barrow Park ● Cooke’s Building ● Co-operative Building, Barrow-in-Furness ● Nan Tait Centre ● Newbarns ● Ramsden Hall ● St Mary of Furness Roman Catholic Church ● Craven Park, Barrow-in-Furness ● Walney North ● Barrow-in-Furness Main Public Library ● North Scale ● National Westminster Bank, Barrow-in-Furness
● Ramsden Square ● Roxy Cinema, Barrow-in-Furness ● Barrow/Walney Island Airport ● John Whinnerah Institute ● Barrow-in-Furness Central Fire Station ● Barrow Jute Works ● Custom House, Barrow-in-Furness ● Portland Walk Shopping Centre ● 2002 Barrow-in-Furness legionellosis outbreak ● The Forum, Barrow-in-Furness ● Trinity Church, Barrow-in-Furness ● Hindpool Retail Parks ● Furness Building Society ● Dock Museum ● Barrow-in-Furness Town Hall ● Imperial Hotel, Barrow-in-Furness ● HMS Onyx (S21) ● Majestic Hotel, Barrow-in-Furness ● Craven House ● Schneider Square ● BAE Systems Submarines ● Central Barrow ● St. George’s Church, Barrow-in-Furness ● St. George’s Square, Barrow-in-Furness ● Alfred Barrow Health Centre ● Salthouse, Barrow-in-Furness ● Princess Selandia ● Port of Barrow ● Devonshire Dock ● VSEL Heavy Engineering Workshop ● St. John’s Church, Barrow-in-Furness ● Risedale ● Ramsden Dock ● Buccleuch Dock ● The Waterfront Barrow-in-Furness ● Devonshire Buildings ● Cavendish Dock ● Barrow Island, Barrow-in-Furness ● Walney Bridge ● Walney Channel ● St Mary the Virgin’s Church, Walney ● Dova Haw ● Islands of Furness ● Walney Island ● Vickerstown ● Earnse Bay ● Biggar, Cumbria ● Barrow-in-Furness ● Devonshire Dock Hall ● Stollers
Getting to / around North Scale – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in North Scale using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following North Scale places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local North Scale Public Transport Stations
North Scale Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Barrow-in-Furness railway station
Barrow-in-Furness power station
Barrow-in-Furness Strand railway station
Island Road railway station
Roose railway station
Ramsden Dock railway station
Holker Street
Abbey Road Working Men’s Club
Abbey Road, Barrow-in-Furness
Duke Street, Barrow-in-Furness
Michaelson Road Bridge
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Local North Scale historians & North Scale tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to North Scale? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives North Scale’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 North Scale 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 North Scale 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 North Scale 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-North Scale’ web pages (for example: www.visitNorth Scale.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 North Scale places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best North Scale places to visit. A unique way to experience North Scale’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore North Scale as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit North Scale places with Walkfo North Scale to hear history at North Scale’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo North Scale has 82 places to visit in our interactive North Scale 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 North Scale, 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 North Scale places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to North Scale & the surrounding areas.
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Trying to encourage visitors to North Scale?