Welcome to Visit Rainow Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Rainow
Visit Rainow places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Rainow places to visit. A unique way to experience Rainow’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Rainow as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Rainow Walkfo Preview Rainow is a former coal-mining village and has a population of around 2,500. Lamaload Reservoir is the first concrete reservoir constructed in England between 1958 and 1964. At 308 metres (1,010 ft) it is also the highest constructed dam in England. When you visit Rainow, Walkfo brings Rainow places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Rainow Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Rainow
Visit Rainow – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 34 audio plaques & Rainow places for you to explore in the Rainow area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Rainow places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Rainow with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Rainow places with Walkfo Rainow to hear history at Rainow’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Rainow has 34 places to visit in our interactive Rainow 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 Rainow, 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 Rainow places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Rainow & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 34 audio facts unique to Rainow places in an interactive Rainow map you can explore.”
Walkfo Rainow tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Rainow
Best Rainow places to visit
Rainow has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Rainow’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Rainow’s information audio spots:
Holy Trinity Church, Hurdsfield Holy Trinity Church is in Hurdsfield Road, Macclesfield, Cheshire. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
Tegg’s Nose Tegg’s Nose is a hill east of Macclesfield in Cheshire, England. It has a high point of 380 metres (1246 feet) at SJ947725, terminating in a promontory at the southern end. It lies on the western edge of the Peak District, although outside the national park.
Holy Trinity Church, Rainow Holy Trinity Church is in the village of Rainow, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Macclesfield, the archdeaconry and the diocese of Chester. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
Hough Hole House Hough Hole House dates from 1660 and was altered and extended in 1796. Engineering works were added in the 1850s and incorporated into the house during the 20th century. The house is recorded in the National Heritage List as a Grade II listed building.
Mellor’s Gardens Mellor’s Gardens are the gardens of Hough Hole House in Rainow, Cheshire. They were created by James Mellor, a local industrialist, and are a representation of John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. The gardens are listed at Grade II in the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
St Christopher’s Church, Pott Shrigley St Christopher’s Church is in the small village of Pott Shrigley, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester.
Leonard Haigh Leonard Haigh won seven caps for England between 1910 and 1911. He also represented Manchester and Lancashire. He enlisted with the Army Service Corps at the start of the First World War.
Jenkin Chapel Jenkin Chapel, stands in an isolated position on the western slopes of the Pennines, 4.3 miles (7 km) northeast of Macclesfield, Cheshire. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
Visit Rainow plaques
0 plaques hereRainow has 0 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Rainow 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 Rainow using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Rainow plaque. Currently No Physical Plaques.
Experience Rainow audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Rainow allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Rainow’s 34 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Rainow freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Rainow Map App
Our visit Rainow map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Rainow & 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 Rainow tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Rainow centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Rainow area at LONG:-2.072748, LAT:53.280229.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Rainow, 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 Rainow / surrounding areas
● Arighi Bianchi ● Hurdsfield House ● Holy Trinity Church, Hurdsfield ● Tytherington, Cheshire ● Egerton Hall, Manchester ● Higher Hurdsfield ● Tytherington Old Hall ● Tegg’s Nose ● Kerridge Hill ● Holy Trinity Church, Rainow ● Rainow ● Hough Hole House ● Mellor’s Gardens ● Endon Hall ● White Nancy ● Ingersley Hall ● Hollin Old Hall ● St John the Baptist’s Church, Bollington ● Lamaload Reservoir ● Bollington Urban District ● Holly Bush, Bollington ● Bradley Mount ● St Oswald’s Church, Bollington ● Bollington Methodist Church ● Clarence Mill ● Limefield ● St Christopher’s Church, Pott Shrigley ● Leonard Haigh ● Pott Shrigley ● Jenkin Chapel
● Kerridge ● Bollington
Getting to / around Rainow – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Rainow using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Rainow places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Rainow Public Transport Stations
Rainow Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Macclesfield railway station
Macclesfield railway station (Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple Railway)
Macclesfield Hibel Road railway station
Bollington railway station
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Local Rainow historians & Rainow tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Rainow? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Rainow’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 Rainow 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 Rainow 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 Rainow 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-Rainow’ web pages (for example: www.visitRainow.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 Rainow places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Rainow places to visit. A unique way to experience Rainow’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Rainow as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Rainow places with Walkfo Rainow to hear history at Rainow’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Rainow has 34 places to visit in our interactive Rainow 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 Rainow, 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 Rainow places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Rainow & the surrounding areas.
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