Traditional county: Manchester · District / Borough: Wigan · Region: North West
Explore Astley Green, Manchester with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Astley Green 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 Astley Green, Manchester, 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 | Astley Green |
| Traditional County | Manchester |
| District / Borough | Wigan |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.493015 |
| Longitude | -2.449625 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
Astley Green retains a stoic dignity, defined by the lingering echoes of the coal seams that once fed the furnaces of the North West. It lies 1.6 miles south-south-east of Tyldesley (from Tyldesley: bearing 153°T, OS grid SJ 702 996), and is situated south-east of Astley village. The landscape is dominated by the colossal silhouette of the Astley Green Colliery, where the towering headgear stands as a rusted sentinel against the shifting grey clouds. Beneath these iron giants, the Lancashire Mining Museum preserves the gravity of a vanished industry, grounding the horizon in a heavy, metallic silence. Beyond the museum, the water of Whitehead Brook curls through the low-lying fields, its surface catching the pale, fleeting light of the afternoon. This water flows with a quiet purpose, indifferent to the industrial ghosts that linger in the shadows of the machinery. Astley Green breathes with the rhythm of a geography that has traded the soot of the deep earth for the quietude of open sky and verdant space. Such shifts in character lend a singular, melancholy beauty to the terrain, where the weight of past toil informs the stillness of the modern day.
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Explore Astley Green, Manchester, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 53.493015, -2.449625. 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. |