Welcome to Visit South Turton Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in South Turton
Visit South Turton places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best South Turton places to visit. A unique way to experience South Turton’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore South Turton as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting South Turton Walkfo Preview South Turton is an unparished area of the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, in Greater Manchester. It lies on the southern slopes of the West Pennine Moors, and has a population of 25,067. It was created in 1974 from the smaller urban area of Turton Urban District. When you visit South Turton, Walkfo brings South Turton places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
South Turton Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about South Turton
Visit South Turton – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 64 audio plaques & South Turton places for you to explore in the South Turton area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best South Turton places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit South Turton with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit South Turton places with Walkfo South Turton to hear history at South Turton’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo South Turton has 64 places to visit in our interactive South Turton 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 South Turton, 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 South Turton places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to South Turton & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo South Turton tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in South Turton
Best South Turton places to visit
South Turton has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied South Turton’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo South Turton’s information audio spots:
Seven Acres Country Park, Bolton Seven Acres Country Park is a country park and Local Nature Reserve in Bolton, Greater Manchester. It lies between the areas of Tonge and Breightmet, and is dissected by Bradshaw Brook. The park is more than 300 years old and is depicted on maps dating back to 1764.
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.
Leverhulme Park Leverhulme Park is the largest park in the town of Bolton, Greater Manchester. It was donated to the people of Bolton by the late Lord Lord Leverhulmes. The park is now home to a community centre, an athletics stadium and five-a-side football pitches.
Holy Trinity Church, Bolton Holy Trinity Church, Bolton is a Grade II listed building. It was a Commissioners’ church, having received a grant towards its construction from the Church Building Commission.
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.
Visit South Turton plaques
10 plaques hereSouth Turton has 10 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo South Turton 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 South Turton using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each South Turton plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience South Turton audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in South Turton allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of South Turton’s 64 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore South Turton freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore South Turton Map App
Our visit South Turton map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in South Turton & 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 South Turton tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the South Turton centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit South Turton area at LONG:-2.4, LAT:53.606.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore South Turton, 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 South Turton / surrounding areas
● South Turton ● St Maxentius’ Church, Bradshaw ● Bradshaw, Greater Manchester ● Harwood, Greater Manchester ● Hall i’ th’ Wood ● Bromley Cross ● Seven Acres Country Park, Bolton ● Eagley Brook ● Astley Brook ● Astley Bridge Mill ● Breightmet ● Eagley Mills ● Affetside ● Tonge, Bolton ● Sharples, Greater Manchester ● Astley Bridge ● Jumbles Reservoir ● Blair Hospital ● Church of All Souls, Bolton ● Cox Green, Greater Manchester ● Eagley ● Leverhulme Park ● St Stephen and All Martyrs’ Church, Lever Bridge ● Bradshaw Brook ● Ainsworth Mill, Breightmet ● Holy Trinity Church, Bolton ● 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 ● Top Storey Club ● County Borough of Bolton ● Bolton Market Hall ● Church of St George, Bolton ● Bolton Royal Infirmary ● Bolton Union Mill, Bolton ● Egerton, Greater Manchester ● Christ Church, Walmsley ● Eagley F.C. ● Horrocks Fold ● Turton Tower ● Turton Urban District ● Chapeltown, Lancashire ● Turton, Lancashire ● St Anne’s Church, Turton ● Dean Brook ● North Turton ● Kirklees Brook ● Hawkshaw, Greater Manchester ● St Thomas’ Church, Halliwell ● Halliwell, Greater Manchester ● Ainsworth, Greater Manchester ● Fred Dibnah ● Smithills Hall ● Little Bolton Town Hall
Getting to / around South Turton – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in South Turton using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following South Turton places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local South Turton Public Transport Stations
South Turton Notable Streets & Road Destinations
The Oaks railway station
Hall i’ th’ Wood railway station
Bromley Cross railway station
Bolton power stations
Darcy Lever railway station
Bolton bus station
Bolton Great Moor Street railway station
Turton and Edgworth railway station
Bank Street Unitarian Chapel
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Local South Turton historians & South Turton tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to South Turton? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives South Turton’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 South Turton 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 South Turton 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 South Turton 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-South Turton’ web pages (for example: www.visitSouth Turton.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