Traditional county: Lancashire · District / Borough: West Lancashire · Region: North West
Explore Wrightington Bar, Lancashire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Wrightington Bar 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 | Wrightington Bar |
| Traditional County | Lancashire |
| District / Borough | West Lancashire |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.615844 |
| Longitude | -2.704420 |
| Place Type | Village |
Wrightington Bar, a quiet hamlet in West Lancashire, hums with a gentle, unassuming presence. It lies 4.2 km north-west of Standish (from Standish: bearing 321°T, OS grid SD 534 134), and is situated north of Mossy Lea village. The land around Wrightington Bar rolls with a subtle, almost imperceptible grace, the fields catching the low afternoon sun in strokes of pale gold, as if the very earth exhales a soft, luminous breath. Its history is etched not in grand monuments, but in the quiet continuity of agricultural rhythms, the land itself a silent chronicle of seasons past. Though no great river flows through its heart, a network of drainage ditches and hedgerows defines its character, a subtle geometry against the wider canvas of the Lancashire plain. The air here, especially after a soft rain, carries the clean scent of damp earth and distant farmland, a fragrance that whispers of enduring, unpretentious life.
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Explore Wrightington Bar, 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: 53.615844, -2.704420. 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. |