Traditional county: Staffordshire · District / Borough: Staffordshire Moorlands · Region: West Midlands
Explore Blackshaw Moor, Staffordshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Blackshaw Moor 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 | Blackshaw Moor |
| Traditional County | Staffordshire |
| District / Borough | Staffordshire Moorlands |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.135617 |
| Longitude | -1.987598 |
| Place Type | Village |
Blackshaw Moor breathes the wide sky of the Staffordshire Moorlands. It lies 4.0 km north-east of Leek (from Leek: bearing 34°T, OS grid SK 009 598), and is situated south-south-west of Upper Hulme village. The land here rolls with a patient, ancient grace, the light often possessing a luminous quality that seems to gather and pool in the hollows of the fields, a subtle shimmer against the darker greens of the surrounding heather and bracken. Though small, Blackshaw Moor carries the quiet hum of agricultural continuity, a place where the past is not so much remembered as it is still lived, in the enduring patterns of cultivation and the weathered stone of its scattered dwellings. The air, sharp and clean, often carries the distant bleating of sheep, a sound as old as the hills themselves, grounding the present in the timeless rhythms of the moorland.
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Explore Blackshaw Moor, Staffordshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 53.135617, -1.987598. 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. |