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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Northowram
Visit Northowram places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Northowram places to visit. A unique way to experience Northowram’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Northowram as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Northowram is a village in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England that stands to the east of Halifax on the north side of Shibden valley. Southowram stands on the southern side of the valley. The village was documented in the 19th century as being in the parish of Halifax, 2½ miles north-east of Halifax and 6½ miles from Bradford. Its population at that point was 6,841 and Northowram Hall was the seat of J.F. Dyson, Esq. The ward is now called Northowram and Shelf. The population at the 2011 Census was 11,618. The village has three churches: St Matthew’s Church of England parish church, a Methodist church, and a Heywood United Reformed Church. St Matthew’s is a Grade II listed building which is constructed of snecked local sandstone with a graded stone-slate roof. In addition, the village today has 21 shops and one school, Northowram Primary School. The serial killer John Christie was born at Black Boy House near the village in 1899. The village hosts an annual Scarecrow Festival. When you visit Northowram, Walkfo brings Northowram places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Northowram Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Northowram
Visit Northowram – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 58 audio plaques & Northowram places for you to explore in the Northowram area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Northowram places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Northowram with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Northowram places with Walkfo Northowram to hear history at Northowram’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Northowram has 58 places to visit in our interactive Northowram 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 Northowram, 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 Northowram places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Northowram & the surrounding areas.
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Best Northowram places to visit
Northowram has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Northowram’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Northowram’s information audio spots:
Eureka! (museum)
Eureka! The National Children’s Museum is an interactive educational museum for children in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, with a focus on learning through play. It is run as an educational charity and not-for-profit organisation. Eureka! is based on the North American model of children’s museums, aimed at families with children aged 0–11 and encourages hands-on inter-generational learning.
Borough Market, Halifax
Borough Market is a Victorian covered market in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. The market occupies a town centre site between Southgate, Albion Street and Market Street. The glass and wrought iron covered marketplace, surrounded by stone built shops and accommodation, was built between 1891 and 1896 and opened by the future King George V and Queen Mary. The design included three public houses on the Market Street side and fishmongers’ shops on Albion Street with the remaining exterior shops all being butchers’ shops. The award-winning market is open six days a week with some 125 market stalls.
St Mary’s Church, Halifax
St Mary’s Church or St Marie’s Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Halifax, West Yorkshire. It was built from 1836 to 1839. It is situated on the corner of Gibbet Street and Clarence Street, next to Burdock Way.
High Sunderland Hall
High Sunderland Hall was a manor house, built c. 1600 just outside Halifax, West Yorkshire. It was demolished in 1951 after falling into dereliction. The house is perhaps best known for having supposedly provided Emily Brontë with her description of Wuthering Heights.
Buttershaw
Buttershaw is a residential area of Bradford, West Yorkshire. It is bounded by Horton Bank Top to the north, Wibsey to the east, Woodside to the south and Shelf to the west. It consists mostly of 1940s council housing with the building starting in 1947 and continuing until the 1960s. It gained notoriety in 1986 when it was featured as the setting for most of the scenes in the film Rita, Sue and Bob Too.
The Shay
Halifax Town football and Halifax Panthers rugby league clubs both play home games at the Shay. The North and South stands were built in the mid-1990s. The Shay lies on the south side of Halifax, about a quarter of a mile from the town centre.
Visit Northowram plaques
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here Northowram has 3 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Northowram 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 Northowram using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Northowram plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
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