Traditional county: Manchester · District / Borough: Bolton · Region: North West
Explore Great Lever, Manchester with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Great Lever 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 | Great Lever |
| Traditional County | Manchester |
| District / Borough | Bolton |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.561324 |
| Longitude | -2.420729 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
Great Lever, a district of Bolton, carries the quiet dignity of a place shaped by industry and community. It lies 1.9 km south-south-east of Bolton (from Bolton: bearing 160°T, OS grid SD 722 072). The very air here seems to hold a subtle resonance of the mills that once defined its skyline, their brickwork now softened by the passage of seasons and the gentle encroachment of verdant growth. The streets, though modern in their arrangement, often reveal glimpses of an older architecture, a testament to generations who lived and laboured within its bounds. A sense of settled life pervades Great Lever, where the everyday unfolds with a steady, unpretentious grace, and the light, when it breaks through the clouds, can cast a surprisingly warm hue upon the familiar brick facades.
Loading news…
Loading news-world…
Loading news-world…
Explore Great Lever, 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: 53.561324, -2.420729. 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. |