Traditional county: Manchester · District / Borough: Tameside · Region: North West
Explore Far Souracre, Manchester with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Far Souracre 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 | Far Souracre |
| Traditional County | Manchester |
| District / Borough | Tameside |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.489376 |
| Longitude | -2.045612 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
Far Souracre offers a quiet corner of Tameside, where the hum of suburban life mingles with the distant echoes of industry. It lies 0.9 km north-east of Stalybridge (from Stalybridge: bearing 50°T, OS grid SJ 970 991). The landscape here is one of gentle slopes, where the brick-built houses of Far Souracre seem to absorb the soft, diffused light characteristic of the North West, lending a muted warmth to the everyday. Old railway lines, now reclaimed by tenacious greenery, hint at a past when iron and steam were the lifeblood of this region, a history still palpable in the sturdy, no-nonsense architecture. The air, often carrying a faint dampness from the Pennine foothills, can sometimes bear the subtle scent of distant moorland heather, a reminder of the wilder country that presses close. Though no grand pronouncements mark its existence, Far Souracre holds its own modest character, a place where the ordinary unfolds with a quiet, enduring dignity.
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Explore Far Souracre, 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: 53.489376, -2.045612. 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. |