Traditional county: Manchester · District / Borough: Oldham · Region: North West
Explore Diggle, Manchester with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Diggle 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 | Diggle |
| Traditional County | Manchester |
| District / Borough | Oldham |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.564771 |
| Longitude | -1.999977 |
| Place Type | Village |
Diggle, a quiet sentinel in the Pennine landscape, surveys the rolling moorland with a stoic gaze. It lies 5.6 km east-north-east of Lees (from Lees: bearing 58°T, OS grid SE 000 075), and is situated north-east of Dobcross village. The air here, particularly on a crisp autumn morning, carries a clean, invigorating scent of damp earth and distant heather, a testament to its moorland embrace. Once a place where the rumble of industry echoed, Diggle now hums with a gentler, more pastoral rhythm, its stone cottages standing resilient against the sweep of the sky. The light, when it breaks through the clouds, casts long, theatrical shadows across the open fields, transforming the familiar contours of the land into something altogether more profound. This is a place where the wind whispers old stories through the hardy grasses, and the horizon seems to stretch towards infinite possibility.
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Explore Diggle, 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: 53.564771, -1.999977. 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. |