Welcome to Visit Parrs Wood Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Parrs Wood
Visit 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.
Visiting Parrs Wood Walkfo Preview 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.
Visit Parrs Wood – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
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.
Why visit Parrs Wood with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You 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.
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:
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 .
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Visit Parrs Wood plaques
20 plaques hereParrs 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.
Experience Parrs Wood audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Parrs Wood allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Parrs Wood’s 120 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Parrs Wood freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Parrs Wood Map App
Our visit Parrs Wood map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Parrs Wood & 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 Parrs Wood tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Parrs Wood centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Parrs Wood area at LONG:-2.2188888888889, LAT:53.408888888889.
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Things to do & visit in Parrs Wood / surrounding areas
● Peel Hall, Wythenshawe ● Crossacres tram stop ● Northen Etchells ● Benchill tram stop ● Heald Green ● Wythenshawe Amateurs F.C. ● Benchill ● Gatley ● Sharston Hall ● Sharston ● Menorah Synagogue ● Stockport Etchells ● Haveley tram stop ● Cheadle Royal Hospital ● Cheadle and Gatley Urban District ● Wythenshawe Bus Garage ● Together Trust ● Rose Hill, Northenden ● Micker Brook ● Barnes Hospital, Cheadle ● Old Bedians ● St Mary’s Church, Cheadle ● Cheadle Lower Mill ● Alexandra Hospital (Cheadle) ● Baguley ● Cheadle Bulkeley ● Cheadle, Greater Manchester ● Ladybrook Valley ● Church of St Wilfrid, Northenden ● Alexandra Park Aerodrome
● Chorlton Park (ward) ● Withington tram stop ● Barlow Moor ● Howard Harker ● Southern Cemetery, Manchester ● Old Moat ● Old Moat (ward) ● Barlow Hall ● Christ Church, West Didsbury ● Merseybank ● Withington Community Hospital ● Cine City, Withington ● Withington ● Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre ● Didsbury Mosque ● St Paul’s Church, Withington ● South Manchester Synagogue ● Fallowfield Campus ● Chancellors Hotel & Conference Centre ● Fallowfield Stadium ● Adswood ● Metropolitan Borough of Stockport ● Our Lady and the Apostles Church, Stockport ● Stockport Armoury ● Grand Central Stockport ● Stockport Central Library ● St Peter’s Church, Stockport ● Pure 107.8FM ● Garrick Theatre (Stockport) ● Stockport Carriage Sidings ● Edgeley Park ● Stockport Air Raid Shelters ● Stockport Viaduct ● National Tyres and Autocare ● Wear Mill, Stockport ● Ladybarn ● Withington (ward) ● Duchess of York Hospital ● The Christie NHS Foundation Trust ● Christie Hospital ● Nelstrops Albion Flour Mills ● Kingston Mill, Stockport ● Christ Church, Heaton Norris ● Heaton Norris ● Edgeley ● Stockport Pyramid ● Green Lane (Stockport) ● Nursery Inn ● Brinksway Caves ● Gorsey Bank ● Cheadle Heath ● Cheadle Heath Nomads F.C. ● Cheadle Town F.C. ● Abney Hall ● Heaton Moor ● Heaton Mersey ● Cheadle Moseley ● Parrs Wood House ● East Didsbury tram stop ● Parrs Wood ● Shirley Institute ● Northenden ● Wythenshawe Park ● Wythenshawe Hall ● Northern Moor ● St Margaret’s Church, Burnage ● Burnage (ward) ● Heaton Chapel ● Burnage ● Church of St Nicholas, Burnage ● Capitol Theatre, Manchester ● Didsbury East (ward) ● Didsbury Village tram stop ● Didsbury Campus ● St Paul’s Methodist Church, Didsbury ● Fletcher Moss Botanical Garden ● Church of St James, Didsbury ● Didsbury ● West Didsbury tram stop ● Northern Lawn Tennis Club ● Didsbury West (ward) ● Fletcher Moss Rangers F.C. ● Wythenshawe ● Fallowfield ● Merseyway Shopping Centre ● Hat Works ● The Towers (Manchester) ● Mural of Marcus Rashford
Getting to / around Parrs Wood – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Parrs Wood using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Parrs Wood places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Parrs Wood Public Transport Stations
Parrs Wood Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Gatley railway station
Northenden railway station
Cheadle railway station (London and North Western Railway)
Withington and West Didsbury railway station
Fallowfield railway station
Stockport railway station
Stockport bus station
Mauldeth Road railway station
Heaton Norris railway station
Cheadle Heath railway station
Heaton Mersey railway station
Cheadle North railway station
East Didsbury railway station
Heaton Chapel railway station
Didsbury railway station
Burnage railway station
A5103 road
Burton Road tram stop
Wilmslow Road bus corridor
Wilmslow Road
Park Road Stadium
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Local Parrs Wood historians & Parrs Wood tour guides
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