Traditional county: Staffordshire · District / Borough: Staffordshire Moorlands · Region: West Midlands
Explore Moorside, Staffordshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Moorside 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Moorside, 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 Moorside and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.
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| Place | Moorside |
| Traditional County | Staffordshire |
| District / Borough | Staffordshire Moorlands |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.025727 |
| Longitude | -1.896727 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
High, exposed ridges define the horizon around Moorside, where the limestone earth holds the cold clarity of the Staffordshire sky. It lies 4.6 miles north-east of Cheadle (from Cheadle: bearing 53°T, OS grid SK 070 476), and is situated south-west of Hoften's Cross village. Ancient markers of human occupation punctuate the surrounding fields, most notably the Ribden Low Bowl Barrow, which rises from the turf as a silent, grassy tumulus against the shifting weather. The wind here possesses a sharp, scouring quality, unhindered by the sparse hedgerows that divide the small, stony pastures. To the south-west, the skeletal, evocative ruins of Cotton College stand as a sombre reminder of past scholastic ambitions, their masonry weathering into the muted colours of the moorland. Further east, the rugged expanse of the Rue Hill SSSI protects a rare, fragile ecology that flourishes despite the thin soil and the relentless pressure of the elements. Moorside endures as a place of sparse, hard-won beauty, where the light catches the grit of the trackways and the silvered bark of isolated trees. Every movement of the clouds above the hamlet transforms the colour of the landscape, turning the brown grasses to copper or deep violet in the span of a single hour.
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Explore Moorside, 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: 53.025727, -1.896727. 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. |