Traditional county: Manchester · District / Borough: Oldham · Region: North West
Explore Top o' th' Meadows, Manchester with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Top o' th' Meadows 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 | Top o' th' Meadows |
| Traditional County | Manchester |
| District / Borough | Oldham |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.552126 |
| Longitude | -2.061529 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Sunlight often spills across the undulating landscape that cradles Top o' th' Meadows, painting the hardy grasses and resilient stone in hues of muted gold. It lies 1.7 km north-north-east of Lees (from Lees: bearing 25°T, OS grid SD 960 061), and is situated west-north-west of Scouthead village. Though small, Top o' th' Meadows carries the quiet dignity of a place shaped by the winds that sweep across the nearby moors, a constant companion to its scattered dwellings. The air here often holds the faint, earthy scent of damp soil and distant sheep, a fragrance that speaks of generations who have toiled this land. Its modest collection of homes, some with chimneys exhaling thin wisps of smoke, appear to huddle together against the vast expanse of sky, a testament to enduring community. The very light that falls upon Top o' th' Meadows seems to possess a particular clarity, as if filtered through the clean, sharp air of the Pennine foothills.
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Explore Top o' th' Meadows, 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: 53.552126, -2.061529. 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. |