Welcome to Visit Upper Batley Places The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Upper Batley
Visit Upper Batley places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Upper Batley places to visit. A unique way to experience Upper Batley’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Upper Batley as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
Visiting Upper Batley Walkfo Preview Batley was popular with millowners of Batley in the 19th century as a place to build their family homes. Batley Hall, a two-storey oak-and-stone building, was originally built in 1370 by William Copley. When you visit Upper Batley, Walkfo brings Upper Batley places to life as you travel by foot, bike, bus or car with a mobile phone & headphones.
Visit Upper Batley – Walkfo’s stats for the places to visit
With 47 audio plaques & Upper Batley places for you to explore in the Upper Batley area, Walkfo is the world’s largest heritage & history digital plaque provider. The AI continually learns & refines facts about the best Upper Batley places to visit from travel & tourism authorities (like Wikipedia), converting history into an interactive audio experience.
Why visit Upper Batley with Walkfo Travel Guide App?
You can visit Upper Batley places with Walkfo Upper Batley to hear history at Upper Batley’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Upper Batley has 47 places to visit in our interactive Upper Batley 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 Upper Batley, 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 Upper Batley places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Upper Batley & the surrounding areas.
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Walkfo Upper Batley tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Upper Batley
Best Upper Batley places to visit
Upper Batley has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Upper Batley’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Upper Batley’s information audio spots:
Healds Hall Healds Hall was built in 1764 and was a private residence for several notable people. In 1926 it became the headquarters and museum for the Spen Valley Literary and Scientific Society. It is now a hotel, restaurant and function venue.
St Peter’s Church, Birstall St. Peter’s Church in Birstall, West Yorkshire, is an active Anglican parish church. It is in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds.
Foxsons Mill, Staincliffe Foxsons Mill, Staincliffe was a doubling mill in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. It doubled yarns of count’s 4’s to 40’s. It was taken over by Lancashire Cotton Corporation in the 1930s and passed to Courtaulds in 1964.
HWD Hospital Radio HWD Hospital Radio broadcasts to patients and staff of Mid Yorkshire Trust hospitals. The station is registered as a charity with the Charity Commission for England and Wales, number 227515.
Birstall, West Yorkshire Birstall is a large village in the metropolitan borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire. It is situated between Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield and Wakefield. The town is approximately 6 miles (10 km) south-west of Leeds and situated close to M62 motorway.
Oakwell Hall Oakwell Hall is an Elizabethan manor house in Birstall, West Yorkshire. The Grade I listed hall is set in period gardens surrounded by 110 acres of country park. It was immortalised in literature as “Fieldhead” by Charlotte Brontë, in her novel Shirley.
Batley Town Hall Batley Town Hall is a municipal facility in the Market Place in Batley, West Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building.
Dewsbury Dewsbury is a minster town within the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees. It lies on the River Calder and an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Huddersfield and south of Leeds. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, after undergoing a period of major growth in the 19th century as a mill town.
Batley Batley is a market and mill town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire. In 2011 the population of Batley including Hanging Heaton, Staincliffe, Carlinghow and Birstall Smithies, Copley Hill and Howden Clough was 48,730.
Dewsbury bus station The bus station is situated in Dewsbury town centre next to Aldams Road (A638 road) and can be accessed there and from South Street. The station was rebuilt in 1994 with a main passenger concourse and 19 bus stands.
Visit Upper Batley plaques
7 plaques hereUpper Batley has 7 physical plaques in tourist plaque schemes for you to explore via Walkfo Upper Batley 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 Upper Batley using the app. Experience the history of a location when Walkfo local tourist guide app triggers audio close to each Upper Batley plaque. Explore Plaques & History has a complete list of Hartlepool’s plaques & Hartlepool history plaque map.
Experience Upper Batley audio walks & tours
Walkfo guides for things to do / places to visit in Upper Batley allows exploration as you would do an art gallery or museum. Walk close to one of Upper Batley’s 47 historic places & our digital tour guide will create an audio story for that spot. With headphone connected, you can explore Upper Batley freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Explore Upper Batley Map App
Our visit Upper Batley map shows you things-to-do & places you can visit in Upper Batley & 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 Upper Batley tourist map to find historic & tourism spots within 1km, 3km & 5km of the Upper Batley centre, depending on how far you plan to explore whilst you visit Upper Batley area at LONG:-1.629, LAT:53.715.
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Walkfo is free to download & use (for a limited time period), so if you are looking to explore Upper Batley, 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 Upper Batley / surrounding areas
● Healds Hall ● Norristhorpe ● Healey, Kirklees ● St Peter’s Church, Birstall ● Dewsbury and District Hospital ● Foxsons Mill, Staincliffe ● Ponderosa Zoo ● HWD Hospital Radio ● Staincliffe ● Carlinghow ● Birstall, West Yorkshire ● Wilton Park, Batley ● Dewsbury Moor ● All Saints’ Church, Batley ● Oakwell Hall ● Batley Carr ● Mount Pleasant (cricket ground) ● Mount Pleasant, Batley ● Batley Town Hall ● Crow Nest Park ● Boothroyd, West Yorkshire ● West Yorkshire Built-up Area ● Upper Batley ● Dewsbury ● Batley ● Dewsbury Town Hall ● Dewsbury Minster ● Soothill ● Hanging Heaton ● Dewsbury and Savile Ground
● Birstall Shopping Park ● Morley Town Hall ● Oakwell Hospital ● Howley Hall ● Crown Flatt ● Woodkirk Priory ● Beggarington Hill ● Woodkirk ● Tingley ● Gawthorpe, Wakefield ● Chickenley ● Heckmondwike ● Murder of Jo Cox ● Markazi Masjid, Dewsbury ● Morley Tunnel
Getting to / around Upper Batley – transport link, station & street map
Getting around in Upper Batley using public transportation may include road, street, train, underground, bus or tram transport options. Walkfo has identified the following Upper Batley places with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
Local Upper Batley Public Transport Stations
Upper Batley Notable Streets & Road Destinations
Liversedge Spen railway station
Heckmondwike Spen railway station
Birstall railway station (West Yorkshire)
Carlinghow railway station
Birstall Town railway station
Batley Carr railway station
Staincliffe and Batley Carr railway station
Dewsbury railway station
Batley railway station
Ravensthorpe Lower railway station
Dewsbury Central railway station
Dewsbury Market Place railway station
Upper Batley railway station
Gildersome West railway station
Gildersome railway station
Morley Top railway station
Howden Clough railway station
Chickenley Heath railway station
Earlsheaton railway station
Dewsbury bus station
Heckmondwike bus station
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Local Upper Batley historians & Upper Batley tour guides
Trying to encourage visitors to Upper Batley? Walkfo has millions audio places already available but Walkfo Creator gives Upper Batley’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 Upper Batley 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 Upper Batley 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 Upper Batley 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-Upper Batley’ web pages (for example: www.visitUpper Batley.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 Upper Batley places using Walkfo for free guided tours of the best Upper Batley places to visit. A unique way to experience Upper Batley’s places, Walkfo allows you to explore Upper Batley as you would a museum or art gallery with audio guides.
You can visit Upper Batley places with Walkfo Upper Batley to hear history at Upper Batley’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Upper Batley has 47 places to visit in our interactive Upper Batley 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 Upper Batley, 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 Upper Batley places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Upper Batley & the surrounding areas.
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