Welcome to Visit Smithills Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Smithills
Visit Smithills places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Smithills places to visit. A unique way to experience Smithills’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Smithills as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Smithills Walkfo Preview Smithills lies on the lower south facing slopes of the West Pennine Moors. It is 3.1 miles (5 km) northwest of Bolton and 14.5 miles (23 km) south of Blackburn. When you visit Smithills, Walkfo brings Smithills places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Smithills Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Smithills
Visit Smithills – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 59 audio plaques & Smithills places for you to explore in the Smithills area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Smithills places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Smithills history
Smithills was anciently a manor in the township of Halliwell with Smithills Hall serving as the manor house. In 1877, the south-eastern area became the ninth electoral ward of the County Borough of Bolton.
Smithills toponymy
Smithills derives from the Old English smeþe meaning smooth and hyll, a hill. The name Smithills was recorded as Smythell in 1322.
Why visit Smithills with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Smithills places with Walkfo Smithills to hear history at Smithills’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Smithills has 59 places to visit in our interactive Smithills 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 Smithills, 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 Smithills places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Smithills & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 59 audio facts unique to Smithills places in an interactive Smithills map you can explore.”
Walkfo Smithills tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Smithills
Best Smithills places to visit
Smithills has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Smithills’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Smithills’s information audio spots:
Eagley Brook Eagley Brook is a small river of Lancashire and Greater Manchester. It rises at the confluence of several smaller streams at Old Man’s Hill in the West Pennine Moors. The brook feeds Belmont Reservoir and passes the village of Belmont and collects several tributaries. It flows south, through Eagley near Bromley Cross, towards Astley Bridge, after which it joins Astley Brook to form the River Tonge.
Blair Hospital Blair Hospital was a health facility at Bromley Cross near Bolton, Greater Manchester. It was a very distinctive building, perhaps one of Bolton’s really well-known buildings.
St Patrick’s Church, Bolton St Patrick’s Church is a Roman Catholic Church in Bolton, Greater Manchester. It was built in 1861 and is a Gothic Revival style building. It is situated on the corner of Great Moor Street and Johnson Street.
Octagon Theatre, Bolton The Octagon Theatre is a producing theatre located in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It is located in the city of Bolton and is located on the outskirts of Manchester.
Bolton Town Hall Bolton Town Hall was built between 1866 and 1873 to designs by William Hill of Leeds and George Woodhouse of Bolton. The town hall was extended in the 1930s to the designs of Bradshaw, Gass and Hope. It has been designated a Grade II* listed building by English Heritage.
Bolton Market Hall Bolton Market Hall is a listed building in Bolton, Greater Manchester. The market hall and its integral ground-floor shops on Bridge Street, Corporation Street and Knowsley Street are included in the English Heritage listing.
Bolton Royal Infirmary The Bolton Royal Infirmary was an acute general hospital in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It was a hospital in Chorley Street, Bolton.
Queen’s Park, Bolton Queen’s Park is a roughly circular 22 acres (8.9 ha) Victorian park lying on sloping ground to the north-west of Bolton town centre, in Greater Manchester. Opened as Bolton Park on 24 May 1866 by Lord Bradford it was renamed in 1897 in honour of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee.
Pike’s Lane Pike’s Lane was the home ground of Bolton Wanderers between 1880 and 1895. It was the venue of the first-ever goal scored in league football anywhere in the world.
St Margaret’s Church, Halliwell St Margaret’s Church is in Lonsdale Road, Halliwell, Bolton, Greater Manchester. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Bolton, the archdeaconry of Bolton and the diocese of Manchester.
Visit Smithills plaques
9 plaques hereSmithills has 9 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Smithills 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 Smithills using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Smithills plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Smithills audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Smithills allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Smithills’s 59 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Smithills freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Smithills Map App
Our visit Smithills map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Smithills & 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 Smithills tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Smithills centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Smithills area at LONG:-2.462251, LAT:53.604657.
Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Smithills, 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 Smithills / surrounding areas
● High Rid Reservoir ● Wallsuches ● Lostock Junction Mills ● Hall i’ th’ Wood ● Bromley Cross ● Eagley Brook ● Astley Brook ● Astley Bridge Mill ● Eagley Mills ● Sharples, Greater Manchester ● Astley Bridge ● Blair Hospital ● Church of All Souls, Bolton ● Cox Green, Greater Manchester ● Eagley ● St Patrick’s Church, Bolton ● St Peter’s Church, Bolton ● Bolton Rural District ● Bolton ● Metropolitan Borough of Bolton ● Octagon Theatre, Bolton ● Ye Olde Man & Scythe ● Bolton Town Hall ● Storming of Bolton ● Bolton Museum ● 96.5 Bolton FM ● University of Bolton ● Top Storey Club ● County Borough of Bolton ● Bolton Market Hall
● Church of St George, Bolton ● Bolton Lads and Girls Club ● Bolton Royal Infirmary ● Bolton Union Mill, Bolton ● Queen’s Park, Bolton ● Pike’s Lane ● Egerton, Greater Manchester ● Christ Church, Walmsley ● Eagley F.C. ● Horrocks Fold ● Dingle Reservoir ● Smithills ● Dean Brook ● St Mary the Virgin’s Church, Deane ● Deane, Greater Manchester ● Heaton, Greater Manchester ● St Margaret’s Church, Halliwell ● Bolton Steam Museum ● St Thomas’ Church, Halliwell ● Barrow Bridge, Bolton ● Moss Bank Park, Bolton ● Doffcocker ● Markland Hill ● Halliwell, Greater Manchester ● Dean Mills Reservoir ● Smithills Hall ● Little Bolton Town Hall
Getting to / around Smithills – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Smithills using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Smithills places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Smithills Public Transport Stations
Smithills Notable Streets & Road Destinations
The Oaks railway station
Hall i’ th’ Wood railway station
Bromley Cross railway station
Bolton power stations
Bolton bus station
Bolton Great Moor Street railway station
Bank Street Unitarian Chapel
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Local Smithills historians & Smithills tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Smithills? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Smithills’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 Smithills 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 Smithills 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 Smithills 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-Smithills’ web pages (for example: www.visitSmithills.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 Smithills places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Smithills places to visit. A unique way to experience Smithills’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Smithills as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Smithills places with Walkfo Smithills to hear history at Smithills’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Smithills has 59 places to visit in our interactive Smithills 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 Smithills, 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 Smithills places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Smithills & the surrounding areas.
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