Traditional county: Cheshire · Unitary authority: Warrington · Region: North West
Explore Risley, Cheshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Risley map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Risley, Cheshire, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
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| Place | Risley |
| Traditional County | Cheshire |
| Unitary Authority | Warrington |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.429334 |
| Longitude | -2.523752 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
Risley emerges from the Cheshire landscape as a place where the heavy, quiet earth of the peat mosses meets the industrious pulse of modern development. It lies 3.8 miles north-north-west of Lymm (from Lymm: bearing 330°T, OS grid SJ 652 926), and is situated east-south-east of Croft village. The terrain here holds a peculiar stillness, defined by the expansive, damp horizons of the Risley, Holcroft and Chat Moss nature reserve where the sky seems to press down with a silver, reflective weight. Ancient layers of bog reveal themselves in the dark, peaty soil, contrasting sharply with the structured geometry of nearby business parks and arterial roads. Visitors often wander toward the Birchwood Forest Park, finding that the orderly lines of planted timber offer a strange, disciplined harmony against the wilder, unkempt edges of the marshland. Risley maintains a character forged by this duality, balancing the remnants of an agricultural past with the encroaching hum of the twenty-first century. Light catches the damp grasses in the late afternoon, turning the fields into sheets of burnished copper that stretch toward the horizon. Even amidst the suburban expansion, Risley retains a stubborn, earthy soul that refuses to be entirely paved over by the progress of the North West.
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Explore Risley, Cheshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 53.429334, -2.523752. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |