Visit Thornton-le-Moors – things to do & explore
When you visit Thornton-le-Moors on a day-trip, weekend away or holiday, Walkfo is the digital tour guide to the hidden history & cultural facts that you can explore in Thornton-le-Moors. Millions of audio content spots are available when you travel by foot, bike, bus or car around Thornton-le-Moors through your mobile phone connected to headphones.
Overview of Thornton-le-Moors history & facts by Walkfo
Planning a visit to Thornton-le-Moors?
Thornton-le-Moors is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. At the census of 2001 it had a population of 260, reducing slightly to 253 at the 2011 census. The village is seven miles north east of the city of Chester. It is situated to the south of the A5117 road. To the north of the village is the Stanlow Refinery. To the west is the nearest town of Ellesmere Port and to the north east is the nearest village, Elton
Thornton-le-Moors history
Thornton le Moors was a township in Thornton Parish, Eddisbury Hundred, which became a civil parish in 1866. The population was 156 in 1801, 186 in 1851, 130 in 1901, 223 in 1951 and 260 in 2001.
You can visit Thornton-le-Moors, COUNTY/BOROUGH & use Walkfo to discover the best walking places with our free digital tour guide app created especially for Thornton-le-Moors. Walkfo Thornton-le-Moors has 300 locations with history, culture & travel facts, that you can explore the same way you can a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Thornton-le-Moors, being in the moment, without digital distraction and no limitations to a specific walking route – you choose where you want to go, when you want to go and Walkfo Thornton-le-Moors will keep up.
When you visit Thornton-le-Moors
When you visit Thornton-le-Moors, Walkfo is your digital tour guide while exploring by foot, bike or bus. With numerous walks, hikes, tourist locations & travel destinations available in Thornton-le-Moors, our travel AI guide helps you get the best from your visit to Thornton-le-Moors & the surrounding areas. Our explore Thornton-le-Moors app for iPhone & Android, allows you to experience the hidden history, culture and amazing facts throughout Thornton-le-Moors whilst out walking. The digital tour guide creates interactive audio stories driven by where you walk, so you can exploration Thornton-le-Moors’s National Heritage sites, tourist attractions, historic locations or city streets freely, without the restrictions of a predefined walk & walk map.
“The Walkfo AI has curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 0 audio facts in Thornton-le-Moors alone that form an interactive Thornton-le-Moors walking map for you to explore.”
Best Thornton-le-Moors places to visit
Thornton-le-Moors has hundreds of places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are five of Thornton-le-Moors’s best destinations to visit when exploring the area. We have condensed the information with much more detail available within Walkfo when you visit the destinations.
bVisit Thornton-le-Moors plaques
Thornton-le-Moors has 0 plaques as part of nation or local tourist plaque schemes for you to explore when you visit. Plaque schemes such as National Heritage’s “Blue Plaques” provide a visual geo marker to highlight points of interest things, at the places where they happened. Walkfo has researched each plaque to provide additional content when you visit the Thornton-le-Moors plaques whilst using the app. Experience the hidden history & stories behind each location as the Walkfo local tourist guide app uses GPS to trigger audio close to each Thornton-le-Moors plaque. Walkfo also offers millions of additional ‘virtual geo plaques’ that are unique to Walkfo, created across the UK (and the world).
When using Walkfo to explore Thornton-le-Moors, you will hear the full story of each of these plaques.
Experience Thornton-le-Moors audio walks & tours
Walkfo is a free app that shows you things to do / visit in Thornton-le-Moors on a map. You can explore the area as you wish, as you would do an art gallery or museum, and when you walk close to those locations, our digital tour guide will tell you history, culture & travel facts about the location in audio form. With headphone connected, you can explore Thornton-le-Moors freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Visiting Thornton-le-Moors with Walkfo’s things to do interactive map
The “Thornton-le-Moors things to do map” below is a preview of the places you can visit in Thornton-le-Moors and surrounding areas with our digital audio tour guide app. Each spot has content for a plaque, a building, a street or general area, providing history, culture or tourism information the you can explore.
| Interactive ‘Explore Thornton-le-Moors Map’
This Thornton-le-Moors tourism map shows points of interest within a 4km radius of Thornton-le-Moors centre | Walkfo App
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Thornton-le-Moors, 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.
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Things to do & visit in Thornton-le-Moors and surrounding areas
Getting to / around Thornton-le-Moors – transport links, stations, streets & traffic map
Getting around in Thornton-le-Moors using public transportation may include roads, streets, trains, undergrounds, buses or trams. Walkfo has the following important Thornton-le-Moors public transport locations with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
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Attention local Thornton-le-Moors historians, tour guides & Thornton-le-Moors tourism agents
Looking for a way to get more visitors to Thornton-le-Moors?
Whilst Walkfo has millions audio spots already available, Walkfo Creator allows tourist destinations, attractions & landmarks to create their own unique outdoor audio museums & walks using the simple & easy to use Walkfo Creator. Creating an audio walk for you destination is free* and can be created in under 15 minutes if you have content ready, with Walkfo Creator doing all the hard work generating audio files for geo spot you simply click on a map.
The 100 Amazing Thornton-le-Moors Places outdoor museum was created using Walkfo Creator (pictured to the left) as a way for people to safely explore the area during Covid-19 times whilst improving the experience of visiting a city when tourism boards use Walkfo to market their destination.
Walkfo is currently looking to partner with websites who offer things-to-do / what’s on events listings to add to our content on our webpages (for example: www.visitThornton-le-Moors.com). If you are interested in being a content provider, 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.