Traditional county: Merseyside · District / Borough: Sefton · Region: North West
Explore Ford, Merseyside with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Ford 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 | Ford |
| Traditional County | Merseyside |
| District / Borough | Sefton |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.482744 |
| Longitude | -2.995916 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
Ford, a quiet corner of Merseyside, offers a gentle invitation to linger. It lies 1.3 km north-north-east of Litherland (from Litherland: bearing 12°T, OS grid SJ 340 989). The landscape around Ford unfurls with a subtle, almost wistful grace, its fields catching the pale northern light in broad, unhurried strokes. Though no grand abbey or bustling market square defines its heart, a sense of settled continuity pervades the smaller lanes and scattered homes, suggesting a history built not on dramatic pronouncements but on the quiet accumulation of lives. The air here often carries a faint, earthy scent, a reminder of the agricultural past that still brushes against the edges of this suburban expanse.
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Explore Ford, 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: 53.482744, -2.995916. 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. |