Visit Southowram Places

Welcome to Visit Southowram Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Southowram

  

Southowram Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Southowram

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Southowram history

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The parish of Southowram was recorded on 1 July 1837 as part of the Halifax Registration District. It was abolished as a distinct parish on 1 April 1937, with the parish being split between Brighouse and Elland.

Southowram landmarks

Law Hill House

In 1837, Emily Brontë came to teach at Law Hill which was then an exclusive boarding school . She stayed for only about six months, however, because of the strict lifestyle demanded . She was homesick and in a collection of letters, her sister Charlotte wrote about how she was more of a governess than a teacher .

You can visit Southowram places with Walkfo Southowram to hear history at Southowram’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Southowram has 68 places to visit in our interactive Southowram 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 Southowram, 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 Southowram places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Southowram & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 68 audio facts unique to Southowram places in an interactive Southowram map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Southowram Places Map
68 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Southowram historic spots	Southowram tourist destinations	Southowram plaques	Southowram geographic features
Walkfo Southowram tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Southowram

  

Best Southowram places to visit

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Southowram has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Southowram’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Southowram’s information audio spots:

Eureka! (museum) Eureka! The National Children’s Museum is an interactive educational museum for children in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, with a focus on learning through play. It is run as an educational charity and not-for-profit organisation. Eureka! is based on the North American model of children’s museums, aimed at families with children aged 0–11 and encourages hands-on inter-generational learning.

Borough Market, Halifax Borough Market is a Victorian covered market in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. The market occupies a town centre site between Southgate, Albion Street and Market Street. The glass and wrought iron covered marketplace, surrounded by stone built shops and accommodation, was built between 1891 and 1896 and opened by the future King George V and Queen Mary. The design included three public houses on the Market Street side and fishmongers’ shops on Albion Street with the remaining exterior shops all being butchers’ shops. The award-winning market is open six days a week with some 125 market stalls.

King Cross King Cross is an ecclesiastical parish created in 1845 in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire. It is located along the top of a ridge above the town of Halifax. During the English Civil War, King Cross was a key outpost for the Parliamentarians.

St Mary’s Church, Halifax St Mary’s Church or St Marie’s Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Halifax, West Yorkshire. It was built from 1836 to 1839. It is situated on the corner of Gibbet Street and Clarence Street, next to Burdock Way.

High Sunderland Hall High Sunderland Hall was a manor house, built c. 1600 just outside Halifax, West Yorkshire. It was demolished in 1951 after falling into dereliction. The house is perhaps best known for having supposedly provided Emily Brontë with her description of Wuthering Heights.

The Shay Halifax Town football and Halifax Panthers rugby league clubs both play home games at the Shay. The North and South stands were built in the mid-1990s. The Shay lies on the south side of Halifax, about a quarter of a mile from the town centre.

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