Welcome to Visit Turf Lea Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Turf Lea
Visit Turf Lea places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Turf Lea places to visit. A unique way to experience Turf Lea’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Turf Lea as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Turf Lea Walkfo Preview Turf Lea is a hamlet located at the end of The Ridge, above Marple, in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester. Nearby is Wybersley Hall, where the author Christopher Isherwood was born. When you visit Turf Lea, Walkfo brings Turf Lea places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Visit Turf Lea – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 41 audio plaques & Turf Lea places for you to explore in the Turf Lea area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Turf Lea places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Turf Lea with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Turf Lea places with Walkfo Turf Lea to hear history at Turf Lea’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Turf Lea has 41 places to visit in our interactive Turf Lea 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 Turf Lea, 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 Turf Lea places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Turf Lea & the surrounding areas.
Walkfo Turf Lea tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Turf Lea
Best Turf Lea places to visit
Turf Lea has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Turf Lea’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Turf Lea’s information audio spots:
Brabyns Park Brabyns Park is a public park in Marple Bridge, Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It is located on the outskirts of the city of Stockport.
Mellor Mill Mellor Mill, also known as Bottom’s Mill, was a cotton mill in Marple, Greater Manchester built by Samuel Oldknow in 1793. It was a six-storey, 42-foot wide and 210-foot (64 m) long mill. It reached its peak production in 1804, when 10,080 spindles were operating.
St. Thomas’ Church, Mellor St. Thomas’ Church is at the top of a lane overlooking the village of Mellor, Greater Manchester. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a Grade II listed building. The church contains the oldest wooden pulpit in England and a late 12th-century Norman font.
Torkington Torkington in Greater Manchester is part of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport. It is located in the Metropolitan borough of the city, Stockport, and is situated in the North East of the South East of Manchester.
New Mills Town Hall New Mills Town Hall is a municipal building in New Mills, Derbyshire. It was opened in 1871 as a public hall for the Mechanics Institute. It became a town hall in 1895 upon the creation of New Mills Urban District Council.
Torrs Hydro Torrs Hydro is a micro hydroelectric scheme in New Mills, Derbyshire. It is located on the River Goyt, immediately after its confluence with the River Sett at the Torr weir. A 2.4-metre diameter steel trough screw turbine generates up to 63 kW of electricity.
St Mary’s Church, Disley St Mary’s Church is on a hill overlooking Disley, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. Its benefice is combined with that of St John, Furness Vale.
Mellor hill fort Situated on a hill in Mellor, Greater Manchester, on the western edge of the Peak District, the hill fort overlooks the Cheshire Plain. Evidence exists of activity on the site as far back as 8,000 BC.
Visit Turf Lea plaques
3 plaques hereTurf Lea has 3 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Turf Lea 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 Turf Lea using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Turf Lea plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Turf Lea audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Turf Lea allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Turf Lea’s 41 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Turf Lea freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Turf Lea Map App
Our visit Turf Lea map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Turf Lea & 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 Turf Lea tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Turf Lea centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Turf Lea area at LONG:-2.05, LAT:53.372.
Walkfo App
Walkfo
Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Turf Lea, 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 Turf Lea / surrounding areas
● Ollersett ● Anson Engine Museum ● Marple, Greater Manchester ● Marple Junction ● Church of St Martin, Marple ● Marple Lock Flight ● All Saints Church, Marple ● Old Manor Farm, Marple ● Brabyns Park ● Hawk Green ● Marple Bridge ● Mellor Mill ● St. Thomas’ Church, Mellor ● Mellor, Greater Manchester ● Windlehurst ● Turf Lea ● Torkington ● Strines ● Disley Tunnel ● Wyberslegh Hall ● High Lane, Greater Manchester ● Brookbottom ● Hague Bar ● Forest of Lyme ● New Mills A.F.C. ● New Mills Town Hall ● Torrs Hydro ● Torr Vale Mill ● New Mills ● Ripley Urban District
● New Mills Urban District ● List of mills in Derbyshire ● Whitle ● Newtown, Derbyshire ● Lyme Handley ● Lyme Park ● Disley ● St Mary’s Church, Disley ● Mellor hill fort
Getting to / around Turf Lea – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Turf Lea using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Turf Lea places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Turf Lea Public Transport Stations
Turf Lea Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Higher Poynton railway station
Middlewood Higher railway station
Middlewood railway station
High Lane railway station
Rose Hill Marple railway station
Marple railway station
Hazel Grove railway station (Midland Railway)
Strines railway station
Disley railway station
New Mills Central railway station
New Mills Newtown railway station
[transportsummary]
Local Turf Lea historians & Turf Lea tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Turf Lea? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Turf Lea’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 Turf Lea 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 Turf Lea 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 Turf Lea 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-Turf Lea’ web pages (for example: www.visitTurf Lea.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