Traditional county: Lancashire · District / Borough: Preston · Region: North West
Explore Red Scar, Lancashire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Red Scar 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 Red Scar, 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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| Place | Red Scar |
| Traditional County | Lancashire |
| District / Borough | Preston |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.787021 |
| Longitude | -2.646314 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
Red Scar maintains a quiet presence on the edge of the industrial and the wild, where the steady hum of modern logistics meets the ancient, clay-heavy earth of Lancashire. It lies 2.8 miles east of Fulwood (from Fulwood: bearing 96°T, OS grid SD 575 324), and is situated south-south-east of Cow Hill village. The landscape here is defined by a sharp transition, as the sprawling business parks give way to the deep, silent ravines of the Red Scar And Tun Brook Woods Sssi. Within these sheltered corridors, the light catches the damp leaves and mossy banks with a silver intensity that seems entirely removed from the nearby motorway. Beyond these tangled thickets, the expansive waters of Brockholes Quarry mirror the changing sky, offering a sanctuary for wildfowl that drift undisturbed across the dark, still surface. Red Scar bears the distinct character of a place caught between the utility of the present and the persistent, slow reclamation of the natural world. The ground beneath feels heavy with the memory of its geological past, where the strata of the earth are laid bare in the steep banks of the local brooks. Here, the air carries a crisp, metallic sharpness in the winter, yet softens in the spring to smell of wet stone and rising greenery.
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Explore Red Scar, 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: 53.787021, -2.646314. 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. |