Traditional county: Manchester · District / Borough: Wigan · Region: North West
Explore Bickershaw, Manchester with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Bickershaw 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 Bickershaw, 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 | Bickershaw |
| Traditional County | Manchester |
| District / Borough | Wigan |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.513615 |
| Longitude | -2.569971 |
| Place Type | Village |
Bickershaw emerges from the low-lying terrain of Greater Manchester as a place shaped by the deep, industrial echoes of its coal-mining past. It lies 1.5 miles south-south-east of Hindley (from Hindley: bearing 162°T, OS grid SD 623 020), and is situated east-north-east of Abram village. The landscape surrounding Bickershaw now finds a quieter purpose within the expansive National Nature Reserve known as The Flashes Of Wigan And Leigh, where water reclaimed from former subsidence mirrors the shifting northern sky. These dark, still pools serve as a testament to the earth’s resilience, offering a sanctuary for wildfowl amidst the remnants of a once-hectic extraction industry. To the west, the gentle, purposeful flow of Borsdane Brook cuts through the periphery, providing a rhythmic cadence to the edge of the local geography. Bickershaw retains a stoic character, where the long, flat horizons are occasionally broken by the silhouettes of mature trees and the hushed transition from iron-wrought history to verdant, marshy regrowth. The light here possesses a particular clarity, often catching the silvered surfaces of the nearby water and lending a transient brightness to the open fields. In this quiet corner of the North West, the soil bears the weight of a century’s toil, yet it now supports a landscape that breathes with the slow, deliberate pulse of nature’s gradual return.
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Explore Bickershaw, 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: 53.513615, -2.569971. 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. |