Traditional county: Manchester · District / Borough: Wigan · Region: North West
Explore New Manchester, Manchester with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the New Manchester 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 New Manchester, 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.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
Drag the map to pan to any area of Manchester or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of New Manchester and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.
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| Place | New Manchester |
| Traditional County | Manchester |
| District / Borough | Wigan |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.514264 |
| Longitude | -2.419900 |
| Place Type | Village |
New Manchester emerges from the flat, low-lying landscape of the Wigan district as a quiet pocket of North West England where the industrial legacy of the coalfields remains etched into the horizon. It lies 1.1 miles south-west of Walkden (from Walkden: bearing 233°T, OS grid SD 722 020). The topography here is defined by the soft, persistent flow of the Honksford Brook, which cuts a silver ribbon through the terrain just to the south-west. A short distance to the north-north-west, the skeletal remains of Common Head Farm offer a muted reminder of the agricultural rhythms that once dominated the land before the collieries arrived. The air in New Manchester carries a certain stillness, a residual gravity left behind by the generations who worked the deep seams beneath these fields. Light settles unevenly over the open ground, catching the damp moss on old boundary walls and the dark, reflective surfaces of the nearby waterways. Residents often find themselves walking paths that trace the edges of a vanished coal-mining era, where the soil still holds the heavy, iron-rich memory of its past. This landscape does not demand attention, but rather rewards a patient gaze with the subtle, shifting colours of the northern sky against the low-slung, sturdy architecture of the region.
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Explore New Manchester, 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: 53.514264, -2.419900. 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. |