Traditional county: Manchester · District / Borough: Tameside · Region: North West
Explore Quick, Manchester with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Quick 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 Quick, 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 | Quick |
| Traditional County | Manchester |
| District / Borough | Tameside |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.528757 |
| Longitude | -2.037554 |
| Place Type | Village |
Quick remains a quiet stone witness to the rugged transitions of the Tameside landscape. It lies 0.8 miles north-north-east of Mossley (from Mossley: bearing 26°T, OS grid SD 976 035), and is situated south-south-east of Lydgate village. The light here often catches the grey gritstone of the older cottages, casting long, sharp shadows that seem to pull the history of the Pennine fringe into the present. To the west, the slopes of Holly Bank rise with a stubborn, heathery persistence, grounding the horizon in a permanent, brooding earthiness. Quick maintains a spare, austere grace, far removed from the louder industrial echoes of the valleys below. A short walk south leads to the sheltered expanse of Roughtown Green, where the grass holds the memory of winter frosts long after the sun has climbed high. The air carries a thin, sharp clarity, a reminder that the wilder heights of the moorland are never truly distant from these lanes. Through the changing seasons, Quick persists as a place of deliberate silence, holding its own against the encroaching reach of the modern world.
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Explore Quick, 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: 53.528757, -2.037554. 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. |