Visit West Vale Places

Welcome to Visit West Vale Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in West Vale

  

West Vale Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about West Vale

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You can visit West Vale places with Walkfo West Vale to hear history at West Vale’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo West Vale has 48 places to visit in our interactive West Vale 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 West Vale, 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 West Vale places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to West Vale & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 48 audio facts unique to West Vale places in an interactive West Vale map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit West Vale Places Map
48 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo West Vale tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in West Vale

  

Best West Vale places to visit

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West Vale has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied West Vale’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo West Vale’s information audio spots:

Eureka! (museum) Eureka! The National Children’s Museum is an interactive educational museum for children in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, with a focus on learning through play. It is run as an educational charity and not-for-profit organisation. Eureka! is based on the North American model of children’s museums, aimed at families with children aged 0–11 and encourages hands-on inter-generational learning.

Borough Market, Halifax Borough Market is a Victorian covered market in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. The market occupies a town centre site between Southgate, Albion Street and Market Street. The glass and wrought iron covered marketplace, surrounded by stone built shops and accommodation, was built between 1891 and 1896 and opened by the future King George V and Queen Mary. The design included three public houses on the Market Street side and fishmongers’ shops on Albion Street with the remaining exterior shops all being butchers’ shops. The award-winning market is open six days a week with some 125 market stalls.

Lindley, Huddersfield Lindley is a suburb of Huddersfield, within the metropolitan borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is approximately 2 miles (3 km) northwest from the town centre. It was officially opened only in 1967, by Prime Minister Harold Wilson.

King Cross King Cross is an ecclesiastical parish created in 1845 in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire. It is located along the top of a ridge above the town of Halifax. During the English Civil War, King Cross was a key outpost for the Parliamentarians.

Sowood, West Yorkshire Sowood is 2.3 miles (3.7 km) south-west of Elland, 4.1 miles (6.6 km) north of Huddersfield. The village falls within the Greetland and Stainland ward of Calderdale Council.

Slack Roman Fort Slack Roman Fort was a castellum near Outlane, to the west of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England. It lay alongside the Pennine section of the Roman road from Deva Victrix (Chester) to Eboracum (York) The fort may have been the Cambodunum mentioned as a station on this route in the Antonine Itinerary.

The Shay Halifax Town football and Halifax Panthers rugby league clubs both play home games at the Shay. The North and South stands were built in the mid-1990s. The Shay lies on the south side of Halifax, about a quarter of a mile from the town centre.

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