Traditional county: Manchester · District / Borough: Wigan · Region: North West
Explore Crankwood, Manchester with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Crankwood 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 Crankwood, 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 | Crankwood |
| Traditional County | Manchester |
| District / Borough | Wigan |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.494754 |
| Longitude | -2.566960 |
| Place Type | Village |
Crankwood emerges from the flat, reclaimed earth of the Wigan district, a place where the heavy legacy of coal mining has surrendered to the quiet reclamation of water and reed. It lies 1.8 miles north-east of Golborne (from Golborne: bearing 43°T, OS grid SJ 624 999), and is situated south of Bickershaw village. The horizon here is low and expansive, defined by the shifting, reflective surfaces of the Flashes of Wigan and Leigh, which mirror the pale, translucent skies of the North West. Across these shallow, flooded depressions, the light possesses a silvered quality, catching the movement of water birds that have reclaimed the sunken remnants of old industrial workings. Just a short distance to the west-north-west, the crumbling brickwork of Bickershaw Junction stands as a gaunt sentinel to a time when engines and iron dictated the pulse of the terrain. Now, the atmosphere is dictated by the steady, slow encroachment of the marshes, where the soil feels damp and thick beneath the seasonal grasses. Crankwood remains a distinct point of stillness, caught between the memory of deep-shaft labour and the soft, encroaching silence of the wetland wilderness.
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Explore Crankwood, 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: 53.494754, -2.566960. 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. |