Visit Walton-le-Dale – things to do & explore
When you visit Walton-le-Dale 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 Walton-le-Dale. Millions of audio content spots are available when you travel by foot, bike, bus or car around Walton-le-Dale through your mobile phone connected to headphones.
Overview of Walton-le-Dale history & facts by Walkfo
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Walton-le-Dale history
Toponymy
Walton is derived from walh and tun and means the farmstead or settlement of the Britons . It was recorded in the Domesday Book as Waletune . In the 13th century it was recorded as Waleton and since about 1300 Waleton .
Early history
The remains of a Roman fort at the junction of the River Darwen and River Ribble at Walton-le-Dale were discovered by accident in the mid 19th century . The fort may have been the Rigodunum of Ptolemy, although most people locate it at Castleshaw .
Manor
Two oxgangs of land in Walton belonged to King Edward the Confessor in 1066 . The manor passed in about 1130 to Henry de Lacy of Pontefract . It was later granted to the Banastres and their successors the Langtons .
Battles
Walton was the principal scene of the first Battle of Preston, fought on 17 August 1648 between Cromwell and the Duke of Hamilton . During the English Civil War the bridges over the river were the scene of skimishes between the Royalists and Roundheads .
Industrial Revolution
During the Industrial Revolution there were four cotton mills, including Flats Mills belonging to William Calvert and James Livesey and Son’s Moon Mill . There was a cotton printing business and in 1800 Robert Whittaker established an iron foundry .
Walton-le-Dale culture
In 1701 some of the local gentry including the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Derwentwater and other Jacobites formed the Mock Borough of Walton . The mock corporation had officers which included a mayor, his deputy, recorder, bailiff, chaplain, serjeant, physician and mace-bearer .
You can visit Walton-le-Dale, COUNTY/BOROUGH & use Walkfo to discover the best walking places with our free digital tour guide app created especially for Walton-le-Dale. Walkfo Walton-le-Dale 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 Walton-le-Dale, 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 Walton-le-Dale will keep up.
When you visit Walton-le-Dale
When you visit Walton-le-Dale, Walkfo is your digital tour guide while exploring by foot, bike or bus. With numerous walks, hikes, tourist locations & travel destinations available in Walton-le-Dale, our travel AI guide helps you get the best from your visit to Walton-le-Dale & the surrounding areas. Our explore Walton-le-Dale app for iPhone & Android, allows you to experience the hidden history, culture and amazing facts throughout Walton-le-Dale whilst out walking. The digital tour guide creates interactive audio stories driven by where you walk, so you can exploration Walton-le-Dale’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 Walton-le-Dale alone that form an interactive Walton-le-Dale walking map for you to explore.”
Best Walton-le-Dale places to visit
Walton-le-Dale has hundreds of places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are five of Walton-le-Dale’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 Walton-le-Dale plaques
Walton-le-Dale 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 Walton-le-Dale 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 Walton-le-Dale 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 Walton-le-Dale, you will hear the full story of each of these plaques.
Experience Walton-le-Dale audio walks & tours
Walkfo is a free app that shows you things to do / visit in Walton-le-Dale 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 Walton-le-Dale freely by foot, bike or bus – with your own personal tour guide in your pocket.
Visiting Walton-le-Dale with Walkfo’s things to do interactive map
The “Walton-le-Dale things to do map” below is a preview of the places you can visit in Walton-le-Dale 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 Walton-le-Dale Map’
This Walton-le-Dale tourism map shows points of interest within a 4km radius of Walton-le-Dale 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 Walton-le-Dale, 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 Walton-le-Dale and surrounding areas
Getting to / around Walton-le-Dale – transport links, stations, streets & traffic map
Getting around in Walton-le-Dale using public transportation may include roads, streets, trains, undergrounds, buses or trams. Walkfo has the following important Walton-le-Dale public transport locations with historic / cultural / factual content when you visit:
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Attention local Walton-le-Dale historians, tour guides & Walton-le-Dale tourism agents
Looking for a way to get more visitors to Walton-le-Dale?
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 Walton-le-Dale 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.visitWalton-le-Dale.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.