Traditional county: Staffordshire · District / Borough: Staffordshire Moorlands · Region: West Midlands
Explore Ryecroft Gate, Staffordshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Ryecroft Gate 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 | Ryecroft Gate |
| Traditional County | Staffordshire |
| District / Borough | Staffordshire Moorlands |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.152103 |
| Longitude | -2.092324 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Ryecroft Gate, a quiet hamlet, breathes the open sky of the Staffordshire Moorlands. It lies 7.0 km north-east of Biddulph (from Biddulph: bearing 54°T, OS grid SJ 939 616), and is situated south-south-east of Rushton Bank village. The land here rolls with a gentle, persistent strength, the wind often carrying the scent of damp earth and distant heather. Distant views stretch across undulating terrain, a patchwork of green fields and darker woodland, where the light can shift with remarkable speed, painting the landscape in fleeting shades of silver and gold. Ryecroft Gate itself is a scattering of stone dwellings, their roofs weathered by decades of the moorland elements, standing as quiet sentinels against the vastness of the sky.
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Explore Ryecroft Gate, 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: 53.152103, -2.092324. 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. |