Traditional county: Manchester · District / Borough: Oldham · Region: North West
Explore Top of Cragg, Manchester with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Top of Cragg 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.
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| Place | Top of Cragg |
| Traditional County | Manchester |
| District / Borough | Oldham |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.559091 |
| Longitude | -2.152901 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Top of Cragg commands a modest prominence above the industrial pulse of the Oldham district, where the air often carries the sharp, clean scent of high ground. It lies 1.2 miles north-north-west of Chadderton (from Chadderton: bearing 329°T, OS grid SD 899 069), and is situated east-south-east of Healds Green village. The land here slopes with a quiet, purposeful geometry toward the Rochdale Canal Sssi, where the water mirrors the shifting grey tones of the Lancashire sky. To the north, the rise of Cinder Hill offers a stark, grassy counterpoint to the brick-built heritage of the surrounding valleys. Top of Cragg retains a sense of enduring stillness, as if the earth itself remains mindful of the soot and iron that once defined the horizon. Even as modern life brushes against its borders, the hamlet keeps a watchful, solitary character amidst the wider sprawl of the North West. Sunlight across this elevation possesses a peculiar clarity, catching the edges of the stone walls that mark the ancient boundaries of the fields.
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Explore Top of Cragg, 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: 53.559091, -2.152901. 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. |