Traditional county: Manchester · District / Borough: Oldham · Region: North West
Explore Denshaw, Manchester with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Denshaw 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 | Denshaw |
| Traditional County | Manchester |
| District / Borough | Oldham |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.590129 |
| Longitude | -2.039392 |
| Place Type | Village |
Denshaw, a village in the Oldham district of Manchester, breathes the quiet air of the Pennine foothills. It lies 3.9 km east-north-east of Shaw (from Shaw: bearing 70°T, OS grid SD 974 103), and is situated north-east of Grains Bar village. The land here rolls with a gentle, resilient beauty, much like the hardy sheep that once grazed its now largely residential slopes. Though its industrial past is a whisper in the brickwork of older cottages, the wide skies above Denshaw still hold the echoes of open moorland, a vast canvas where the light shifts with a painterly grace. The village green, a modest but well-tended heart, invites a pause, its grass a soft invitation underfoot, a quiet testament to the lives that have unfolded here.
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Explore Denshaw, 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: 53.590129, -2.039392. 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. |