Traditional county: Manchester · District / Borough: Bolton · Region: North West
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| Place | Four Gates |
| Traditional County | Manchester |
| District / Borough | Bolton |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.565075 |
| Longitude | -2.540829 |
| Place Type | Village |
Four Gates holds a quiet, unassuming posture upon the rising ground of the Bolton district, where the northern light catches the slate roofs with a pale, steady clarity. It lies 1.3 miles north-north-west of Westhoughton (from Westhoughton: bearing 326°T, OS grid SD 642 077), and is situated south-east of Cooper Turning village. The terrain here remembers the heavy industry of the North West, yet the land has softened, allowing the damp, mossy air of nearby Moor Platt Clough to drift across the fields like a slow-moving tide. A stark, metallic silhouette of the Spirit of Sport stands to the north-north-east, a modern sentinel watching over the transition from old coal-hewn earth to the wider, open sky. Four Gates remains a place of transit and sudden stillness, defined less by grand monuments than by the way the wind brushes against the hedgerows after a long afternoon. To the west, the ancient, sunken earth of the Gidlow Hall Moated Site serves as a reminder of deeper, older foundations that have long since surrendered to the grass. The local roads trace the contours of a landscape that feels perpetually caught between the clamour of history and the silence of the present. Here, the hum of the modern road rarely obscures the sense that one is standing on a high, exposed ridge, watching the weather roll in from the distant hills.
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Explore Four Gates, 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: 53.565075, -2.540829. 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. |