Welcome to Visit Smithy Bridge Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Smithy Bridge
Visit Smithy Bridge places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Smithy Bridge places to visit. A unique way to experience Smithy Bridge’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Smithy Bridge as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Smithy Bridge Walkfo Preview Smithy Bridge is a suburb of Littleborough in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Hollingworth Lake Country Park is close by and has its own railway station. It was once a route on the packhorse trip through to Yorkshire. When you visit Smithy Bridge, Walkfo brings Smithy Bridge places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Visit Smithy Bridge – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 71 audio plaques & Smithy Bridge places for you to explore in the Smithy Bridge area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Smithy Bridge places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Smithy Bridge with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Smithy Bridge places with Walkfo Smithy Bridge to hear history at Smithy Bridge’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Smithy Bridge has 71 places to visit in our interactive Smithy Bridge 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 Smithy Bridge, 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 Smithy Bridge places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Smithy Bridge & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo Smithy Bridge tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Smithy Bridge
Best Smithy Bridge places to visit
Smithy Bridge has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Smithy Bridge’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Smithy Bridge’s information audio spots:
Stanney Brook Stanney Brook originates in the Burnedge area of Shaw and Crompton. It flows through Milnrow into Rochdale before joining the River Roch at Newbold Brow. Its name derives from the Lancashire dialect word “stanner”
Hey Brook Hey Brook is a watercourse in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. It originates at the confluence of Buckley Brook and Syke Brook. It flows through Wardleworth to the River Roch.
St John the Baptist Church, Rochdale St John the Baptist Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. It was founded in 1830, and built in 1927. It is situated on the corner of Maclure Road and Dowling Street.
Rochdale (ancient parish) Rochdale was an ecclesiastical parish of early-medieval origin in northern England. At its zenith, it occupied 58,620 acres (237 km) of land amongst the South Pennines. It straddled the historic county boundary between Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Rochdale Town Hall Victorian-era municipal building in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, was built in 1871. Built in Gothic Revival style at a cost of £160,000 (£15 million in 2021) It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade I listed building. It functions as the ceremonial headquarters of the Metropolitan Borough Council and houses local government departments.
Rochdale Pioneers Museum The Rochdale Pioneers Museum is housed in the building where the Equitable Pioneers Society started trading on 21 December 1844. The museum includes a recreation of the original shop, containing its rudimentary furniture, scales, items that were sold at the store, etc.
Spodden Valley asbestos controversy 72 acres (290,000 m) of land in Spodden Valley in Rochdale, England, formerly used by Turner Brothers Asbestos Company. Site of world’s largest asbestos textile factory was sold to MMC Estates, a property developer. MMC submitted a planning application to build an “urban village” consisting of 650 homes, a children’s daycare centre and a business park on the site. However, asbestos containing materials were abundantly visible on the ground, and local residents claimed that there were numerous asbestos dumping sites across the area.
Touchstones Rochdale Touchstones Rochdale is an art gallery, museum, local studies centre, visitor information centre and café. The first part of the building was opened as a library in 1884 with the museum and gallery being added in 1903 and extended in 1913. It became an art and heritage centre in 2003.
Rochdale Infirmary Rochdale Infirmary is an acute general hospital in Greater Manchester. It is managed by the Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
HM Prison Buckley Hall Buckley Hall Prison is a Category C male prison in the Buckley district of Rochdale in North West England. It is operated by Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service.
Visit Smithy Bridge plaques
33 plaques hereSmithy Bridge has 33 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Smithy Bridge 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 Smithy Bridge using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Smithy Bridge plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Smithy Bridge audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Smithy Bridge allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Smithy Bridge’s 71 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Smithy Bridge freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Smithy Bridge Map App
Our visit Smithy Bridge map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Smithy Bridge & 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 Smithy Bridge tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Smithy Bridge centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Smithy Bridge area at LONG:-2.109, LAT:53.632.
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Things to do & visit in Smithy Bridge / surrounding areas
● Royton Urban District ● Newhey ● Piethorne Brook ● Newhey tram stop ● Ellenroad Mill ● Ellenroad Ring Mill Engine ● Butterworth Hall Brook ● Butterworth (ancient township) ● Milnrow tram stop ● Milnrow Urban District ● Kingsway Business Park ● Tunshill ● Ogden Reservoir (Greater Manchester) ● Kingsway Business Park tram stop ● Rakewood Viaduct ● Belfield, Greater Manchester ● Athletic Grounds, Rochdale ● Newbold tram stop ● Roch Valley Viaduct ● Stanney Brook ● Moss Brook ● Hey Brook ● River Beal ● Arkwright Mill, Rochdale ● Ash Brook ● Rochdale Branch Canal ● Number One Riverside ● Smithy Bridge ● St John the Baptist Church, Rochdale ● Rochdale Interchange
● Rochdale Town Centre tram stop ● St John the Baptist’s Church, Smallbridge ● Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale ● Buckley, Greater Manchester ● Rochdale (ancient parish) ● Hollingworth Lake Rowing Club ● Rochdale Town Hall ● Smallbridge, Greater Manchester ● Rochdale Cenotaph ● Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers ● The Baum, Rochdale ● Hollingworth Lake ● Rochdale Pioneers Museum ● Wardleworth ● Spodden Valley asbestos controversy ● Rochdale ● Touchstones Rochdale ● Longden End Brook ● Rochdale Infirmary ● HM Prison Buckley Hall ● Buckley Hall ● Birch Hill Hospital ● St Edmund’s Church, Rochdale ● Rochdale Way ● Wardle, Greater Manchester ● Nook Farm, Rochdale ● Watergrove Reservoir ● Featherstall Brook ● Falinge Park ● Littleborough, Greater Manchester ● Ealees Brook ● Town House Brook ● Brearley Brook ● Hollingworth Brook ● Shore Lane Brook ● Greenvale Brook ● Whittaker Wood ● Calderbrook ● Milnrow
Getting to / around Smithy Bridge – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Smithy Bridge using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Smithy Bridge places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Smithy Bridge Public Transport Stations
Smithy Bridge Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Wardleworth railway station
Rochdale railway station
Smithy Bridge railway station
Littleborough railway station
Milnrow Road
Baron Street drill hall, Rochdale
Drake Street tram stop
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Local Smithy Bridge historians & Smithy Bridge tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Smithy Bridge? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Smithy Bridge’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 Smithy Bridge 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 Smithy Bridge 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 Smithy Bridge 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-Smithy Bridge’ web pages (for example: www.visitSmithy Bridge.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 Smithy Bridge places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Smithy Bridge places to visit. A unique way to experience Smithy Bridge’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Smithy Bridge as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Smithy Bridge places with Walkfo Smithy Bridge to hear history at Smithy Bridge’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Smithy Bridge has 71 places to visit in our interactive Smithy Bridge 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 Smithy Bridge, 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 Smithy Bridge places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Smithy Bridge & the surrounding areas.
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