Traditional county: Lancashire · Unitary authority: Blackburn with Darwen · Region: North West
Explore Whinny Heights, Lancashire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Whinny Heights 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.
| Place | Whinny Heights |
| Traditional County | Lancashire |
| Unitary Authority | Blackburn with Darwen |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.733743 |
| Longitude | -2.469775 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
Whinny Heights offers a quiet embrace of Lancashire's rolling landscape. It lies 2.0 km south-south-east of Blackburn (from Blackburn: bearing 157°T, OS grid SD 691 264). The very air here seems to hold a certain stillness, broken only by the distant bleating of sheep from the surrounding fields, a sound that drifts on the breeze like an old lullaby. The houses of Whinny Heights, mostly red-brick terraces that have weathered many a northern season, huddle together as if for warmth, their gardens often bursting with the determined colours of hardy blooms. A small, unassuming church, its stone softened by lichen, stands as a quiet sentinel, its spire a delicate finger pointing towards a sky that frequently displays a profound, bruised twilight. The lanes that weave through Whinny Heights are often dappled with the muted gold of afternoon sun, a gentle light that seems to lend a thoughtful air to the very stones of the footpaths.
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Explore Whinny Heights, 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: 53.733743, -2.469775. 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 | June 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. |