Flax Moss Lancashire Map

About Flax Moss

Flax Moss exhales a quiet dignity, a place where the Lancashire air holds a particular scent of damp earth and distant industry. It lies 1.2 km south of Haslingden (from Haslingden: bearing 188°T, OS grid SD 784 220). The low-lying landscape around Flax Moss, once a place of peat extraction, now offers a muted palette of greens and browns, the land gently sloping towards the valley floor. Here, the remnants of cotton mills, their brickwork softened by moss and time, stand as stoic witnesses to a bygone era of fervent production, their tall chimneys now silent sentinels against the sky. Even on overcast days, a certain diffused light filters through, lending a soft, almost watercolour quality to the scattered houses and the wider expanse of fields. The nearby waterways, channels carved by centuries of drainage and transport, still murmur softly, carrying echoes of the district's industrial heart.

About This Flax Moss Map Page

Explore Flax Moss, 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: 53.694200, -2.328309. 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.