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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Parrs Wood


Visit Parrs Wood PlacesVisit Parrs Wood places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Parrs Wood places to visit. A unique way to experience Parrs Wood’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Parrs Wood as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.

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Parrs Wood is an area of East Didsbury, in south Manchester, England. It was formerly the estate surrounding Parrrs Wood House, an 18th-century Georgian villa. Today the area incorporates part of Wilmslow Road and is home to a Tesco supermarket. When you visit Parrs Wood, Walkfo brings Parrs Wood places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.

  

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Parrs Wood photo With 120 audio plaques & Parrs Wood places for you to explore in the Parrs Wood area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Parrs Wood places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.

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Visit Parrs Wood PlacesYou can visit Parrs Wood places with Walkfo Parrs Wood to hear history at Parrs Wood’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Parrs Wood has 120 places to visit in our interactive Parrs Wood 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 Parrs Wood, 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 Parrs Wood places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Parrs Wood & the surrounding areas.

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Walkfo Parrs Wood tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Parrs Wood

  

Best Parrs Wood places to visit


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

Parrs Wood photo Southern Cemetery, Manchester
Southern Cemetery is a large municipal cemetery in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England . It opened in 1879 and is owned and administered by Manchester City Council . It is the second largest cemetery in Europe and the largest in the UK .
Parrs Wood photo Fallowfield Campus
Fallowfield Campus is the main residential campus of the University of Manchester . It is located 2 miles (3 km) south of the main university site . The campus is connected by Wilmslow Road and the A34 .
Parrs Wood photo Our Lady and the Apostles Church, Stockport
Our Lady and the Apostles Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in the Edgeley area of Stockport, Greater Manchester. It was built from 1903 to 1905 and replaced St Philip and St James Church, built in 1803, which was the first permanent Catholic church to be built in Stockport after the English Reformation.
Parrs Wood photo Stockport Central Library
Stockport Central Library is a Carnegie library in Stockport, Greater Manchester. It was built in 1913-15 to designs by Bradshaw, Gass and Hope in the Edwardian Baroque style. As of 2018 continues to serve as Stockport’s largest library.
Parrs Wood photo St Peter’s Church, Stockport
St Peter’s Church is the second oldest parish church in the town of Stockport, Greater Manchester. It is recorded in the National Heritage List as a Grade II listed building. Its benefice was combined with that of St Thomas until 30 April 2012.
Parrs Wood photo Pure 107.8FM
Your FM is a community radio station broadcasting in Stockport, Greater Manchester. It replaced a previous station operating under the same licence, Pure 107.8.
Parrs Wood photo Edgeley Park
Edgeley Park is an all-seater stadium in Edgeley, Stockport, England. Built for rugby league club Stockport RFC in 1891, by 1902, the rugby club was defunct and Stockport County Football Club moved in. Stockport Council purchased the stadium for around £2 million, leasing it back to the football club.
Parrs Wood photo Stockport Air Raid Shelters
The Stockport Air Raid Shelters are a system of almost 1 mile of underground air-raid shelters dug under Stockport, six miles south of Manchester. The first set of the shelters was opened on 28 October 1939; Stockport was not bombed until 11 October 1940. The smallest of the tunnel shelters could accommodate 2,000 people and the largest 3,850.
Parrs Wood photo National Tyres and Autocare
National Tyres and Autocare is an independent tyre and automotive parts retailer based in Stockport, Greater Manchester. The company is now part of Axle Group Holdings Ltd.
Parrs Wood photo Wear Mill, Stockport
Wear Mill (also known as Weir Mill) was an integrated cotton works on the Cheadle Heath bank of the River Mersey in Stockport, Greater Manchester. It was started around 1790 and added to, particularly in 1831 and 1884. In 1840, the Stockport Viaduct was built over the river and over Wear Mill.

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Parrs Wood has 20 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Parrs Wood 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 Parrs Wood using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Parrs Wood plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.