Traditional county: Merseyside · District / Borough: St. Helens · Region: North West
Explore Finger Post, Merseyside with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Finger Post 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 | Finger Post |
| Traditional County | Merseyside |
| District / Borough | St. Helens |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.454821 |
| Longitude | -2.719868 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
Finger Post breathes a quiet, unassuming presence on the Merseyside landscape. It lies 1.2 km east of St Helens (from St Helens: bearing 93°T, OS grid SJ 522 955). The land here, a gentle rise, often catches the late afternoon sun, casting long shadows across the modest housing estates that now define its character. Once, perhaps, this was more open country, fields stretching towards the industrial hum of St Helens, but now the residential streets form a settled, everyday pattern. The air carries a faint, mingled scent of cut grass and distant traffic, a common perfume of suburban England. A few older trees, sturdy and resilient, punctuate the newer developments, silent witnesses to a slower unfolding of time.
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Explore Finger Post, Merseyside, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 53.454821, -2.719868. 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. |