Traditional county: Manchester · District / Borough: Bolton · Region: North West
Explore Firwood Fold, Manchester with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Firwood Fold 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 Firwood Fold, 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.
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| Place | Firwood Fold |
| Traditional County | Manchester |
| District / Borough | Bolton |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.595597 |
| Longitude | -2.405099 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
Firwood Fold retains a quiet, stone-hewn resilience that stands apart from the encroaching modern sprawl of the Bolton district. It lies 1.6 miles north-east of Bolton (from Bolton: bearing 41°T, OS grid SD 732 110). Heavy, dark gritstone cottages form the core of Firwood Fold, their low lintels and uneven thresholds suggesting a time when the looms of Lancashire dictated the pace of human life. The light here often catches the grey grain of the masonry, softening the sharp edges of the seventeenth-century architecture as evening approaches. A short walk to the north-east leads to the quiet periphery of Longsight Park, where the land opens into broader, grassy expanses that contrast with the tightly clustered dwellings. To the north-west, the verdant stillness of the Hall I'th' Wood Community Garden offers a place of quiet reflection for those who wander from the historic heart of the site. The surrounding geography remains scarred by the industrial ambition of the past, yet the air carries a persistent, damp freshness drawn from the nearby river systems. Firwood Fold survives as a fragment of a vanishing landscape, where the weight of history is measured in the cold, unyielding texture of the local stone.
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Explore Firwood Fold, 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: 53.595597, -2.405099. 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. |