Welcome to Visit Swan Village Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Swan Village
Visit Swan Village places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Swan Village places to visit. A unique way to experience Swan Village’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Swan Village as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Swan Village Walkfo Preview Swan Village is an area of West Bromwich, England. It was the site of the Swan Village Gas Works. The Great Bridge line closed in 1964 as a result of the Beeching cuts. When you visit Swan Village, Walkfo brings Swan Village places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Swan Village Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Swan Village
Visit Swan Village – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 85 audio plaques & Swan Village places for you to explore in the Swan Village area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Swan Village places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Swan Village with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Swan Village places with Walkfo Swan Village to hear history at Swan Village’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Swan Village has 85 places to visit in our interactive Swan Village 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 Swan Village, 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 Swan Village places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Swan Village & the surrounding areas.
“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 85 audio facts unique to Swan Village places in an interactive Swan Village map you can explore.”
Walkfo Swan Village tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Swan Village
Best Swan Village places to visit
Swan Village has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Swan Village’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Swan Village’s information audio spots:
Charlemont and Grove Vale Charlemont with Grove Vale is a political ward in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, in the English Midlands constituency of West Bromwich East . The ward population as taken at the 2011 census was 11,964 .
Sandwell Sandwell is a metropolitan borough of the West Midlands county in England . The borough is named after the Sandwell Priory and spans a densely populated part of the Midlands conurbation . At the 2011 census, the borough had a population of 309,000 and an area of 86 square kilometres (33 sq mi) In 2019 Sandwell was ranked 12th most deprived of England’s 317 boroughs .
West Midlands conurbation The West Midlands conurbation includes the cities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton and the towns of Sutton Coldfield, Dudley, Walsall, West Bromwich, Solihull, Stourbridge and Halesowen. According to the 2011 Census the area had a population of 2,440,986, making it the third most populated in the United Kingdom behind the Greater London and Greater Manchester Built Up Areas. Not to be confused with the region or metropolitan county of the same name.
Portway Hill Portway Hill is part of the Rowley Hills, near Rowley Regis in West Midlands. It is the site of a nature reserve of the Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country.
Swan Village Gas Works Swan Village Gas Works, is a historical manufacturing plant in the United Kingdom for the production of coal gas. The works are situated in Swan Village, a part of West Bromwich in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell. Parts of the works are still in operation today as part of the National Grid.
Sheepwash Urban Park Sheepwash Urban Park is a Local Nature Reserve (LNR) situated in Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, in the West Midlands conurbation of the United Kingdom. It forms part of the Black Country Urban Forest.
Black Lake Tunnel Black Lake Tunnel is a 412-yard railway tunnel on the West Bromwich and Wednesbury border, in England. The tunnel is located on the west-east border between the West and West-east Bromwich border. It is the longest tunnel in the world.
Horseley Ironworks Horseley Ironworks (sometimes spelled Horsley) was a major ironworks in the Tipton area in Staffordshire, now the West Midlands, England.
Oldbury United F.C. Oldbury United Football Club is a football club representing Oldbury, West Midlands, England. They are currently members of the Birmingham & District League Division Four.
Bustleholme F.C. Bustleholme Football Club is a football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands. They are currently members of the West Midlands (Regional) League Division One and play at York Road in Rowley Regis.
Visit Swan Village plaques
17 plaques hereSwan Village has 17 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Swan Village 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 Swan Village using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Swan Village plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Swan Village audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Swan Village allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Swan Village’s 85 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Swan Village freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Swan Village Map App
Our visit Swan Village map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Swan Village & 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 Swan Village tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Swan Village centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Swan Village area at LONG:-2.016, LAT:52.527.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Swan Village, 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 Swan Village / surrounding areas
● New Square, West Bromwich ● The Public, West Bromwich ● West Bromwich Central tram stop ● Stoney Lane ● Health Futures UTC ● Tantany ● Sandwell General Hospital ● Trinity Way tram stop ● Oak House, West Bromwich ● Lyng, West Midlands ● St Andrew’s Church, West Bromwich ● Sandwell Valley ● Langley Maltings ● Galton Junction ● West Smethwick Park ● Galton Bridge ● Smethwick Junction ● Summit Bridge, Smethwick ● Ruskin Pottery ● County Borough of Warley ● Kenrick Park tram stop ● Chance Brothers ● Titford Canal ● Friar Park, West Midlands ● West Bromwich Manor House ● Stone Cross, West Midlands ● Wednesbury Museum and Art Gallery ● The Phoenix Collegiate ● Hateley Heath ● Charlemont and Grove Vale
● Stewart Aqueduct ● Spon Lane Locks Branch ● Spon Lane Junction ● Bromford Junction ● Oldbury, West Midlands ● Sandwell ● Oldbury Athletic F.C. ● West Midlands conurbation ● Portway Hill ● Shri Venkateswara (Balaji) Temple ● Brades Village ● Gower Branch Canal ● Greets Green ● Wednesbury Old Canal ● Swan Village ● Swan Village Gas Works ● Black Lake tram stop ● Ridgacre Branch ● Sheepwash Urban Park ● Black Lake Tunnel ● Great Bridge, West Midlands ● Galton Village ● Horseley Ironworks ● Ocker Hill Power Station ● Oldbury United F.C. ● Smethwick F.C. ● Tame Valley Junction ● Tividale Quays ● Tividale ● Bradley Branch ● Bustleholme F.C. ● Patent Shaft ● Princes End ● Guest Hospital ● Boat Gauging House, Tipton ● Dudley Sports Centre ● Battle of Tipton Green ● Victoria Park, Tipton ● Tibbington ● Sandwell Valley Country Park ● Sandwell Hall ● Sandwell Priory ● Oakham, Dudley ● Netherton Tunnel Branch Canal ● Ocker Hill ● Tipton Green and Toll End Canals ● Wednesbury Parkway tram stop ● West Bromwich ● Tividale F.C. ● Tipton Green ● Municipal Buildings, Oldbury ● Wednesbury Town Hall ● Bust of Phil Lynott
Getting to / around Swan Village – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Swan Village using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Swan Village places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Swan Village Public Transport Stations
Swan Village Notable Streets & Road Destinations
West Bromwich bus station
West Bromwich railway station
Langley Green railway station
Smethwick Galton Bridge railway station
Smethwick West railway station
Rood End railway station
Spon Lane railway station
Tame Bridge Parkway railway station
Wednesbury bus station
Wednesbury Town railway station
Wednesbury Central railway station
Oldbury railway station
Sandwell and Dudley railway station
Albion railway station (England)
Swan Village railway station
Great Bridge South railway station
Great Bridge North railway station
Dudley Port railway station
Tipton railway station
Newton Road railway station
Lodge Road West Bromwich Town Hall tram stop
Dartmouth Street tram stop
Wednesbury Great Western Street tram stop
Dudley Street Guns Village tram stop
Tipton Road
A4123 road
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Local Swan Village historians & Swan Village tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Swan Village? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Swan Village’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 Swan Village 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 Swan Village 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 Swan Village 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-Swan Village’ web pages (for example: www.visitSwan Village.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 Swan Village places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Swan Village places to visit. A unique way to experience Swan Village’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Swan Village as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
With 85 audio plaques & Swan Village places for you to explore in the Swan Village area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Swan Village places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
You can visit Swan Village places with Walkfo Swan Village to hear history at Swan Village’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Swan Village has 85 places to visit in our interactive Swan Village 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 Swan Village, 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 Swan Village places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Swan Village & the surrounding areas.
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Trying to encourage visitors to Swan Village?