Traditional county: Manchester · District / Borough: Wigan · Region: North West
Explore Lowton, Manchester with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Lowton 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 Lowton, 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 | Lowton |
| Traditional County | Manchester |
| District / Borough | Wigan |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.478118 |
| Longitude | -2.575899 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
Lowton stretches across the flat, hardworking plains of the Lancashire coalfield, where the horizon remains wide and open to the grey, shifting light of the North West. It lies 0.9 miles east-north-east of Golborne (from Golborne: bearing 78°T, OS grid SJ 618 980). Modern commuters now traverse roads that once echoed with the heavy, rhythmic clatter of pit ponies and coal wagons. The landscape retains a memory of this industrial gravity, yet it softens as one moves toward the quiet, reedy expanse of Pennington Flash Country Park, where the water mirrors the clouds in a silver, unbroken sheet. Near the western boundaries, the Golborne Colliery Memorial keeps a solemn watch, grounding the busy pace of the present in the quiet dignity of the past. Lowton balances these disparate identities, holding onto a suburban stillness that persists even as the modern world pushes against its edges. A subtle, metallic tang of history still clings to the air on damp mornings, rising from the earth like a half-remembered song. Each street corner feels defined by this transition from the soot-stained toil of yesteryear to the unremarkable, steady pulse of contemporary life.
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Explore Lowton, 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: 53.478118, -2.575899. 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. |