Welcome to Visit Tockholes Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Tockholes
Visit Tockholes places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Tockholes places to visit. A unique way to experience Tockholes’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Tockholes as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
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Tockholes is a village and civil parish which forms part of the Blackburn with Darwen unitary authority in the English county of Lancashire. It lies on the West Pennine Moors and is surrounded by the towns of Blackburn to the north and Darwen to the east and by the villages of Belmont and Withnell to the south. When you visit Tockholes, Walkfo brings Tockholes places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Tockholes Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Tockholes
Visit Tockholes – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 40 audio plaques & Tockholes places for you to explore in the Tockholes area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Tockholes places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Tockholes history
Early settlement
Archaeological records for the area in and around Tockholes reveal the presence of Tribal communities as early as 2,000BC. Artifacts found in the area to support early settlement include a stone axe head, bronze spear head and later coins.
13th & 14th centuries
In the first half of the 13th century Tockholes was found to be held in thegnage by a local family of the name of Pleasington for a yearly service of 2s. In 1833 a large pit was discovered in Tockhole located in a field with the official title of “Pit Field”, this field had previously been known locally as Kill Field. In the pit were found the remains of some forty horses along with Cannonballs, Clubs and Large Buttons. A battle in which at least forty horses were killed must have been quite a fierce one for such a small village.
20th Century to Present
Hollinshead Hall, the former Tockholes manor house and what may be an older Manor house can be found on the road from the centre of the village known as Top o’t Low. The Chapel situated at the bottom of Long Lane was one of the earliest Congregational Chapels in Lancashire though not in the present building.
Why visit Tockholes with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Tockholes places with Walkfo Tockholes to hear history at Tockholes’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Tockholes has 40 places to visit in our interactive Tockholes 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 Tockholes, 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 Tockholes places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Tockholes & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo: Visit Tockholes Places Map
40 tourist, history, culture & geography spots
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Best Tockholes places to visit
Tockholes has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Tockholes’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Tockholes’s information audio spots:
Upper Roddlesworth Reservoir
Upper Roddlesworth Reservoir is a reservoir near Abbey Village in Lancashire. It sits within dense woodland. The reservoir is close to Lower and Rake Brook Reservoirs.
Visit Tockholes plaques
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here Tockholes has 3 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Tockholes 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 Tockholes using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Tockholes plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
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