Welcome to Visit Sholver Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Sholver
Visit Sholver places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Sholver places to visit. A unique way to experience Sholver’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Sholver as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Sholver Walkfo Preview Sholver is an elevated, residential area of Oldham, in Greater Manchester. It lies near the middle of the Oldham part of the valley of the River Beal. Historically a part of Lancashire, Sholver and its surroundings have provided archaeological evidence of Neolithic activity. When you visit Sholver, Walkfo brings Sholver places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Sholver Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Sholver
Visit Sholver – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 61 audio plaques & Sholver places for you to explore in the Sholver area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Sholver places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Sholver history
Early evidence of human presence in what is now Sholver and adjacent Moorside is attested by the discovery of Neolithic flint arrow-heads and workings found at Besom Hill, implying habitation 7–10,000 years ago. Norsemen occupied Sholver in the 10th century, where they erected shielings – temporary huts in a remote pasture.
Sholver geography / climate
Sholver stands on a steep hillside, about 1,000 feet (304.8 m) above sea level, 2.1 miles (3.4 km) northeast of Oldham’s commercial centre. Saddleworth and the South Pennines are close to the east.
Why visit Sholver with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Sholver places with Walkfo Sholver to hear history at Sholver’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Sholver has 61 places to visit in our interactive Sholver 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 Sholver, 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 Sholver places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Sholver & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 61 audio facts unique to Sholver places in an interactive Sholver map you can explore.”
Walkfo Sholver tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Sholver
Best Sholver places to visit
Sholver has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Sholver’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Sholver’s information audio spots:
Crompton Hall Crompton Hall was an historic house situated at Crompton Fold in the township of Crompton, Lancashire, and within the historic parish of Prestwich-cum-Oldham .
Orme Mill, Waterhead Orme Mill, Waterhead is a cotton spinning mill in Waterhead, Oldham, Greater Manchester. It was built in 1908 and was taken over by Lancashire Cotton Corporation in the 1930s. Production finished in 1960 and the mill was passed on to Ferranti in 1964.
St James’ Church, Oldham St James’ Church is in Barry Street, Greenacres Moor, Oldham, Greater Manchester. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Oldham East, the archdeaconry of Rochdale, and the diocese of Manchester. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
Rifle Street drill hall, Oldham Rifle Street drill hall is a former military installation in Oldham, Oldham. It is a drill hall used to be used as a military drill hall for training purposes.
Oldham Parish Church The Church of St. Mary with St. Peter, mostly known as Oldham Parish Church, is the Church of England parish church for Oldham in Greater Manchester. It forms part of the Diocese of Manchester, and is one of several Grade II* listed buildings. A church building had existed on the site since 1280 and was replaced by an Early English Gothic Church in the 15th century.
Oldham War Memorial Oldham War Memorial is a large bronze sculpture group on a granite plinth. It was built to commemorate the men of Oldham who were killed in the First World War. Bronze plaques on the wall of the churchyard nearby list the fallen, including Mabel Drinkwater, a nurse who died after an operation at Oldham Royal Infirmary. The memorial became a Grade II listed building in 1973 and was upgraded to Grade II* in December 2016.
Greenhill power station Greenhill power station was built over the period 1921–24 and was decommissioned in 1960. It replaced the older Rhodes Bank generating station and was superseded by Chadderton B power station.
Old Town Hall, Oldham The Old Town Hall is a municipal building in Yorkshire Street, Oldham, England. It is a Grade II listed building. It was built in the 1960s.
Oldham Civic Centre Oldham Civic Centre is a municipal building in West Street, Oldham, England. It is located in the centre of Oldham’s West Street.
St Thomas’ Church, Friarmere St Thomas’ Church, Friarmere, also known as Heights Chapel, is a redundant Anglican church on a hillside overlooking the village of Delph, Greater Manchester. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
Visit Sholver plaques
4 plaques hereSholver has 4 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Sholver 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 Sholver using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Sholver plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Sholver audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Sholver allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Sholver’s 61 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Sholver freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Sholver Map App
Our visit Sholver map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Sholver & 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 Sholver tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Sholver centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Sholver area at LONG:-2.074748, LAT:53.566097.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Sholver, 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 Sholver / surrounding areas
● Piethorne Brook ● Trent Mill ● Pencil Brook ● Old Brook (England) ● Hawk Mill, Shaw ● Crompton Hall ● High Crompton ● 2012 Oldham explosion ● Crompton Urban District ● Shaw National Distribution Centre ● Shaw and Crompton ● Brushes Clough Reservoir ● Crompton Moor ● Shaw and Crompton tram stop ● Royton ● Royton Town Hall ● Royton branch ● Royton Ring Mill, Royton ● Moorside, Greater Manchester ● Strinesdale Reservoir ● Orme Mill, Waterhead ● Majestic Mill, Waterhead ● Crossbank ● Waterhead, Greater Manchester ● Greenacres, Greater Manchester ● Derker ● Derker tram stop ● St James’ Church, Oldham ● Asa Lees ● Austerlands
● Scouthead ● Salem Moravian Church ● Lees, Greater Manchester ● Lees Urban District ● Glodwick ● Oldham Mumps tram stop ● Oldham Coliseum Theatre ● Springhead, Greater Manchester ● Oldham Parish Church ● Oldham War Memorial ● Coldhurst ● Old Town Hall, Oldham ● Grotton ● Lydgate, Greater Manchester ● Oldham Theatre Workshop ● Oldham Central tram stop ● Oldham Civic Centre ● Metropolitan Borough of Oldham ● Royal Oldham Hospital ● Boundary Park ● St Thomas’ Church, Friarmere ● Heights, Greater Manchester ● Denshaw ● Springhead Urban District ● Rutland Mill ● Newby Mill, Shaw ● Dawn Mill, Shaw ● Sholver ● Oldham
Getting to / around Sholver – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Sholver using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Sholver places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Sholver Public Transport Stations
Sholver Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Royton railway station
Royton Junction railway station
Lees railway station
Oldham Glodwick Road railway station
Oldham Mumps railway station (London and North Western Railway)
Oldham Mumps railway station
Greenhill power station
Grotton and Springhead railway station
Oldham Central railway station
Oldham Clegg Street railway station
Oldham bus station
Delph railway station
Measurements Halt railway station
Dobcross railway station
The Revolution (radio station)
Cop Road tram stop
Rifle Street drill hall, Oldham
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Local Sholver historians & Sholver tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Sholver? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Sholver’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 Sholver 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 Sholver 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 Sholver 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-Sholver’ web pages (for example: www.visitSholver.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