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Crooke Manchester Map

Traditional county: Manchester · District / Borough: Wigan · Region: North West

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Place	Crooke
Traditional County	Manchester
District / Borough	Wigan
Region	North West
Country	England, United Kingdom

Latitude	53.562494
Longitude	-2.675436
Place Type	Village

About Crooke

Crooke rises from the verdant, low-lying folds of the Wigan district, where the heavy Lancashire sky often reflects in the quiet, dark waters of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. It lies 1.7 miles south-south-west of Standish (from Standish: bearing 196°T, OS grid SD 553 075), and is situated south-east of Shevington village. The landscape here retains a memory of industry, softened now by the patient encroachment of reeds and the slow, meandering pulse of Ackenhurst Brook as it slips through the fields to the south-west. A solemn stillness hangs over the John Taylor's Pit War Memorial, where the names of the departed serve as a tether to a time when the rhythmic clatter of coal extraction defined the horizon. Crooke possesses a rare, muted beauty, particularly when the afternoon sun catches the surface of the waterways, turning the industrial scars into ribbons of hammered silver. The air carries a damp, earthy scent that speaks of the deep, coal-rich seams beneath the topsoil, binding the geography to its arduous past. Local life here moves with the deliberate pace of a canal barge, unbothered by the frantic hum of the wider world beyond the canal banks. This quietude defines Crooke, offering a respite where the history of the earth is written not in ink, but in the slow, persistent reclamation of nature over stone.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Ackenhurst Brook (River) — 0.4 mi, 220° SW
John Taylor's Pit War Memorial (Monument) — 0.4 mi, 004° N
Billy Pit Brook (River) — 0.8 mi, 093° E
Marsh Green Community Park (Park) — 0.9 mi, 171° S
Cross Base On Standish Wood Lane 700M South East Of Standish Hall (Scheduled Monument) — 1.0 mi, 039° NE
Rose Hill Park (Park) — 1.2 mi, 170° S
Cross Base At The Junction Of Standish Green Lane, Standish Wood Lane And Beech Walk, 200M Nnw Of Strickland House Farm, Standish (Scheduled Monument) — 1.3 mi, 024° NNE
Omniplex Cinema (Cinema) — 1.3 mi, 148° SSE
Dean Wood (Forest / Woodland) — 1.5 mi, 242° WSW
ERII Platinum Jubilee (Monument) — 1.7 mi, 019° NNE
Whitley Reservoir (Lake / Reservoir) — 1.8 mi, 092° E
Market Cross In The Marketplace To The West Of St Wilfrid'S Church, Standish (Scheduled Monument) — 1.8 mi, 020° NNE
Standish Mining Sculpture (Public Artwork) — 1.8 mi, 019° NNE
The Orwell at Wigan Pier (Attraction) — 2.0 mi, 134° SE
The Edge (Theatre) — 2.0 mi, 138° SE
East Quarry (Lake / Reservoir) — 2.1 mi, 307° NW
Bridge Warehouse (Attraction) — 2.1 mi, 133° SE
Trencherfield Mill (Attraction) — 2.1 mi, 134° SE
Captain's Clough (Valley) — 2.2 mi, 196° SSW
Foumart's Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 2.2 mi, 325° NW
Dawber Delf (Lake / Reservoir) — 2.2 mi, 310° NW
Wigan Little Theatre (Theatre) — 2.2 mi, 118° ESE
Museum of Wigan Life (Museum) — 2.3 mi, 124° SE
ruined farm or quarry workings (Historic Ruins) — 2.8 mi, 264° W
Haigh Hall Botanical Conservatory (Historic Ruins) — 2.9 mi, 075° ENE
Ravenhead Brickworks Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 3.0 mi, 234° SW · 22 ha
Camp Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 3.1 mi, 193° SSW
Ashurst's Beacon (Viewpoint) — 3.3 mi, 274° W
Wrightington Bar Pasture Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 3.7 mi, 347° NNW · 1 ha
Capitol Cinemas (Cinema) — 4.1 mi, 258° WSW

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