A clever map tool will tell you facts about (basically) any street or building, via Wikipedia!

You can explore your local area with the ‘Wikipedia Around’ tool… just tap the ‘get current position’ button and it’ll bring up loads of relevant Wikipedia articles!

… I can just flash up this website and explore any part of town I like….Proper useful…

Timeout writes:

Good news, fellow curious-but-impatient people. Discovering the hidden history of your local area just got a lot easier. All you need to do is tap the ‘get current position’ button on this website and it’ll bring up loads of relevant Wikipedia articles about where you live….

There’s something extremely exciting about finding this stuff out. It feels like you’ve cheated the system…. – I can just flash up this website and explore any part of town I like. Turns out there are the remains of an old railway station just over there….

….Proper useful….

Want to explore your local area? Play around with the ‘Wikipedia Around’ tool here.

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