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Moorend Staffordshire Map

Traditional county: Staffordshire · District / Borough: Staffordshire Moorlands · Region: West Midlands

Explore Moorend, Staffordshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Moorend 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.

This page also offers OS MAPS — Ordnance Survey Outdoor mapping and the OS Explorer 1:25 000 sheets — plus a labelled National Grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid reference readout. See How to Use This Map below. You will find live weather, local and world news further down the page.

Interactive Map of Moorend, Staffordshire

How to Use This Moorend, Staffordshire Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Moorend, Staffordshire, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

Drag the map to pan to any area of Staffordshire or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Moorend and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.

OS MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows OS Outdoor mapping — contours, footpaths, bridleways and access land. Explorer 1:25k shows the OS Explorer sheets themselves: the orange-covered 1:25 000 maps walkers, fell runners and mountain rescue teams use, with field boundaries, rights of way and open access land. The search box finds any British town, village or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Moorend.

Reading the map like a paper Explorer sheet. Click Grid to overlay the OS National Grid, labelled along the edges exactly as a printed sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference such as NY 266 234 by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as an OS National Grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what mountain rescue and the coastguard work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need mobile coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your grid reference stays correct even where the map itself cannot load, which in the Lakes, the Dales and the Highlands is often exactly where you need it.

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PlaceMoorend
Traditional CountyStaffordshire
District / BoroughStaffordshire Moorlands
RegionWest Midlands
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Latitude53.035512
Longitude-1.903430
Place TypeHamlet

About Moorend

Moorend commands a rugged elevation where the wind scours the stone walls of the Staffordshire Moorlands, leaving the grass clipped short by the elements. It lies 4.9 miles north-east of Cheadle (from Cheadle: bearing 44°T, OS grid SK 065 486), and is situated north-west of Hoften's Cross village. The light here has a sharp, thin quality, falling across the limestone outcrops and the broken ground of the nearby Caldon Low SSSI with a cold, pale clarity. Moorend exists as a cluster of grey-faced dwellings that seem to have grown directly from the gritstone beneath them. To the south, the valley of Cotton Dell cuts a deep, verdant scar into the earth, contrasting with the exposed, wind-battered heights of the hamlet. Time feels held in the heavy, circular earthworks of the Ribden Low Bowl Barrow, which stands as a silent sentinel over the agricultural toil of the surrounding fields. The local landscape remains defined by the persistence of its geology, where the earth hides industrial memories beneath a thin veneer of pasture. Every lane in Moorend traces the contours of a difficult, beautiful terrain that demands much from those who walk its paths.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Caldon Low Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 0.8 mi, 070° ENE
  • Ribden Low Bowl Barrow (Scheduled Monument) — 0.9 mi, 130° SE
  • Cauldon Railway Cutting Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 1.0 mi, 052° NE · 2 ha
  • Moated Site At Ribden (Scheduled Monument) — 1.2 mi, 147° SSE
  • Cotton Dell (Valley) — 1.4 mi, 191° S
  • Cotton College (Historic Ruins) — 1.4 mi, 181° S
  • Stonesteads Bowl Barrow (Scheduled Monument) — 1.6 mi, 047° NE
  • Whiston Pinfold (Historic Ruins) — 1.7 mi, 241° WSW
  • Milk Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 1.9 mi, 074° ENE
  • Star Wood (Forest / Woodland) — 2.0 mi, 188° S
  • Cotton Brook (River) — 2.0 mi, 189° S
  • The Hopestone (Attraction) — 2.0 mi, 291° WNW
  • Peak Wildlife Park (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 2.0 mi, 334° NNW
  • Beelow Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 2.3 mi, 180° S
  • Blackbank Brook (River) — 2.5 mi, 264° W
  • Eid Low Plantation (Forest / Woodland) — 2.9 mi, 149° SSE
  • Secret Lake (Lake / Reservoir) — 3.1 mi, 151° SSE
  • Alton Towers Main Entrance (Attraction) — 3.1 mi, 171° S
  • JoJo & Gran Gran at Home (Attraction) — 3.1 mi, 172° S
  • Peter Rabbit Hippity Hop (Attraction) — 3.1 mi, 173° S
  • Canada Lake (Lake / Reservoir) — 3.3 mi, 146° SE
  • Mill Pond (Lake / Reservoir) — 3.4 mi, 185° S
  • Nemesis Helicopter (Public Artwork) — 3.4 mi, 167° SSE
  • Alton Towers Resort (Theme Park) — 3.4 mi, 166° SSE
  • Alton Park (Park) — 3.5 mi, 160° SSE
  • Alton Towers (Historic Park or Garden (Grade I)) — 3.6 mi, 166° SSE · 90 ha
  • Ina's Rock (Viewpoint) — 3.7 mi, 163° SSE
  • Toothill Rock (Viewpoint) — 3.8 mi, 178° S
  • Consall Nature Park (Park) — 4.3 mi, 266° W
  • Ilam Cross (Monument) — 4.5 mi, 073° ENE

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About This Moorend Map Page

Explore Moorend, 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: 53.035512, -1.903430. 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.

Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any British town, village or landmark by name; offers OS Outdoor and the OS Explorer 1:25 000 sheets as base layers; overlays a labelled OS National Grid so the map can be read like a printed Explorer sheet; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as an OS National Grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require mobile coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the grid reference remains correct even where the map cannot load.

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 builtOctober 2026
Location dataOS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; OS Outdoor and OS Explorer 1:25 000 via the OS Maps API — contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights; magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
County dataTraditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography.
CoordinatesWGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data.