(Suburban Area)
Traditional county: Manchester · District / Borough: Tameside · Region: North West
Explore Fairfield, Manchester with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Fairfield 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 Fairfield, 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.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
Drag the map to pan to any area of Manchester or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Fairfield and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.
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| Place | Fairfield |
| Traditional County | Manchester |
| District / Borough | Tameside |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.476204 |
| Longitude | -2.149920 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
Fairfield reveals the soot-stained elegance of its Moravian past, where formal brick terraces still hold the gravity of eighteenth-century devotion. It lies 0.4 miles south-west of Droylsden (from Droylsden: bearing 214°T, OS grid SJ 901 977). The streets of Fairfield retain an orderly, disciplined geometry that contrasts sharply with the encroaching wildness of the surrounding Tameside landscape. Pale light often catches the slate roofs, illuminating a quiet stillness that persists despite the nearby hum of modern transit. To the south, the expansive surface of Gorton Upper Reservoir mirrors the shifting clouds, providing a vast, liquid lung for the district. Beyond these waters, fragments of the ancient Nico Ditch persist as a sunken scar upon the earth, marking the passage of centuries beneath the grass. Fairfield breathes through these open vistas, where the industrial echoes of the North West soften into a landscape defined by water and time. Such spaces offer a reprieve, grounding the brickwork of Fairfield in the enduring, quiet damp of the English horizon.
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Explore Fairfield, 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: 53.476204, -2.149920. 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. |