Traditional county: Staffordshire · District / Borough: Staffordshire Moorlands · Region: West Midlands
Explore Thorncliffe, Staffordshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Thorncliffe 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 | Thorncliffe |
| Traditional County | Staffordshire |
| District / Borough | Staffordshire Moorlands |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.124262 |
| Longitude | -1.976767 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Thorncliffe breathes the vast, open sky of the Staffordshire Moorlands. It lies 3.6 km north-east of Leek (from Leek: bearing 55°T, OS grid SK 016 585), and is situated south-south-east of Blackshaw Moor village. The landscape here hums with a quiet agriculture, fields a patchwork of muted greens and browns under a sky that can shift from the softest pearl to a bruised indigo in moments. The very air in Thorncliffe seems to carry the scent of damp earth and distant heather, a subtle perfume of the moorland’s untamed heart. Life in Thorncliffe flows with the patient rhythm of the seasons, a gentle counterpoint to the sharper edges of the nearby market town of Leek. The scattered cottages, some stone-built and sturdy, others rendered in shades of cream and ochre, seem to have grown organically from the land itself.
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Explore Thorncliffe, 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: 53.124262, -1.976767. 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. |