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Brownside Lancashire Map

Traditional county: Lancashire · District / Borough: Burnley · Region: North West

Explore Brownside, Lancashire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Brownside 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.

Interactive Map of Brownside, Lancashire

How to Use This Brownside, Lancashire Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Brownside, Lancashire, 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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PlaceBrownside
Traditional CountyLancashire
District / BoroughBurnley
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Latitude53.789740
Longitude-2.198805
Place TypeSuburban Area

About Brownside

Brownside maintains a modest, resilient presence upon the elevated fringes of the Lancashire landscape. It lies 1.9 miles east of Burnley (from Burnley: bearing 85°T, OS grid SD 870 326), and is situated west-north-west of Worsthorne village. The northern boundary of Towneley Park provides a verdant threshold, where the orderly sprawl of the parkland yields to the more rugged ascent of the Pennine foothills. To the south, the River Brun carves a persistent path through the lower terrain, its cool waters catching the grey, shifting light that so often defines this corner of the North West. Residents of Brownside look out toward the rising silhouette of Red Knoll, a hill that anchors the eastern horizon with a quiet, immovable gravity. The local stone, dark and weathered by generations of damp winters, gives the houses a sturdy, unpretentious character that resists the softening effects of time. Industry once dictated the pace of life here, but now a lingering stillness settles over the streets, interrupted only by the sudden, sharp whistle of a wind sweeping down from the moors. Brownside remains a place where the proximity of the wild uplands keeps the domestic hum of suburban life firmly grounded in the earth.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Towneley Park (Park)locality lies within
  • Rowley Lake (Lake / Reservoir) — 0.4 mi, 280° W
  • Red Knoll (Hill / Mountain) — 0.6 mi, 145° SE
  • River Brun (River) — 0.6 mi, 170° S
  • Hell Clough (Valley) — 0.8 mi, 074° ENE
  • Lee Green Reservoir (Lake / Reservoir) — 0.9 mi, 043° NE
  • Extwistle Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 1.0 mi, 032° NNE
  • Park Pond (Lake / Reservoir) — 1.0 mi, 215° SW
  • Swinden Water (River) — 1.0 mi, 052° NE
  • Ring Cairn On Slipper Hill (Scheduled Monument) — 1.0 mi, 085° E
  • Jubilee Meadow (Park) — 1.1 mi, 293° WNW
  • Two Romano-British Farmsteads Known As Ring Stones (Scheduled Monument) — 1.1 mi, 078° ENE
  • Towneley Hall (Historic Park or Garden) — 1.3 mi, 219° SW · 129 ha
  • Burnley Youth Theatre (Theatre) — 1.3 mi, 295° WNW
  • Bowl Barrow On Hameldon Pasture (Scheduled Monument) — 1.4 mi, 090° E
  • Queen Street Mill Textile Museum (Museum) — 1.4 mi, 355° N
  • Museum of Local Crafts & Industries (Museum) — 1.5 mi, 223° SW
  • Foldys Cross (Monument) — 1.6 mi, 222° SW
  • HAPPA Horses And Ponies Protection Association (Attraction) — 1.7 mi, 033° NNE
  • Burnley Mechanics (Theatre) — 1.9 mi, 266° W
  • The Singing Ringing Tree (Public Artwork) — 2.6 mi, 207° SSW
  • Dunnockshaw Community Woodland (Forest / Woodland) — 2.8 mi, 219° SW
  • Walton's Monument (Monument) — 3.3 mi, 027° NNE
  • British in India (Museum) — 3.4 mi, 358° N
  • Castercliff (Castle) — 3.7 mi, 014° NNE
  • Gawthorpe Textiles Collection (Museum) — 4.0 mi, 283° WNW
  • Shaw (Historic Ruins) — 4.0 mi, 141° SE
  • Raistrick Greave (Historic Ruins) — 4.0 mi, 106° ESE
  • Burnley Training Ground (Attraction) — 4.2 mi, 282° WNW
  • Pendle Heritage Centre (Museum) — 4.5 mi, 354° N

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About This Brownside Map Page

Explore Brownside, Lancashire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 53.789740, -2.198805. 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 builtAugust 2026
Location dataOS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0.
County dataTraditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography.
CoordinatesWGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data.