Traditional county: Manchester · District / Borough: Wigan · Region: North West
Explore Lately Common, Manchester with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Lately Common 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 Lately Common, 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 | Lately Common |
| Traditional County | Manchester |
| District / Borough | Wigan |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.480322 |
| Longitude | -2.501838 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Lately Common defines the quiet, flat character of the Wigan district where the urban edge of Manchester dissolves into a persistent, low-lying horizon. It lies 1.4 miles south-south-east of Leigh (from Leigh: bearing 149°T, OS grid SJ 667 982), and is situated north-north-west of Glazebury village. The geography here is defined by the slow, deliberate movement of water, as the nearby Pennington Brook traces a path through the fields, draining the damp earth toward the wider network of the Mersey basin. Residents often find themselves walking the perimeter of Lately Common, a park whose open, grassy expanse preserves a sense of space that feels increasingly rare as the industrial sprawl of the north pushes inward. The light in this corner of the world often takes on a bruised, metallic quality, reflecting off the wetlands at Hope Carr where the reeds bend in rhythmic unison under the prevailing wind. History here is written in the soil and the proximity to the old cotton-spinning heartlands, where the ghosts of Victorian industry still linger in the heavy, brick-built architecture of the surrounding district. Lately Common remains a place where the transition from moor to meadow is felt in the humidity of the air and the sudden, expansive silence that settles between the house rows.
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Explore Lately Common, 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: 53.480322, -2.501838. 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. |