Traditional county: Manchester · District / Borough: Bury · Region: North West
Explore Free Town, Manchester with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Free Town 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 | Free Town |
| Traditional County | Manchester |
| District / Borough | Bury |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.600380 |
| Longitude | -2.278772 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
Free Town, a quiet corner of Bury, Manchester, holds a subtle charm in its unassuming presence. It lies 1.6 km east-north-east of Bury (from Bury: bearing 57°T, OS grid SD 816 115). The light here, particularly in the late afternoon, seems to linger, casting a warm, diffused glow over the neat rows of houses, as if the very air remembers the soft pastoral hues of its agricultural past. Echoes of its former life as a place of labour might still be felt in the sturdy brickwork of older buildings, a quiet testament to hands that once toiled. The gentle slope of the land, leading towards unseen waterways, offers a sense of understated natural beauty, a subtle invitation to pause and observe the changing seasons.
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Explore Free Town, 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: 53.600380, -2.278772. 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. |