Traditional county: Manchester · District / Borough: Tameside · Region: North West
Explore Roaches, Manchester with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Roaches 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 | Roaches |
| Traditional County | Manchester |
| District / Borough | Tameside |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.527925 |
| Longitude | -2.025003 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
Roaches, a quiet corner of Tameside, breathes the air of the Pennine foothills. It lies 1.8 km north-east of Mossley (from Mossley: bearing 52°T, OS grid SD 984 034), and is situated east of Quick village. The land here unfolds with a certain gentle gravity, the fields often appearing as patchwork quilts stitched by generations of farmers, catching the pale Lancashire light. Echoes of its industrial past, when the hum of machinery once filled the air, can still be felt in the sturdy stone of older buildings, a quiet testament to the toil of those who came before. The sky above Roaches, vast and often streaked with cloud, seems to hold a particular clarity, a sense of open possibility that lends a subtle grandeur to the everyday.
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Explore Roaches, 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: 53.527925, -2.025003. 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. |