Chadderton Fold retains the quiet, weathered dignity of an ancient hamlet that has outlived the soot and clamour of the industrial age. It lies 1.1 miles north-west of Chadderton (from Chadderton: bearing 318°T, OS grid SD 897 066), and is situated south of Healds Green village. Stone cottages lean into one another as if sharing long-forgotten secrets, their grit-stone walls absorbing the pale, diffuse light that drifts over the Lancashire horizon. The land here slopes away toward the River Irk, where the water moves with a sluggish, rhythmic persistence through the shadows of the valley. A short distance to the south, the verdant expanse of Chadderton Hall Park offers a soft green reprieve, its modern silence contrasting with the memory of the mills that once defined this rugged terrain. The locality itself sits within the Rochdale Canal Sssi, a designation that acknowledges the curious, wild resilience of nature reclaiming the margins of the waterway. During the damp, grey afternoons of winter, the mist clings to the low-lying fields, blurring the boundary between the gardens and the open expanse of the North West. Chadderton Fold remains a place of singular persistence, holding its own against the creeping reach of the surrounding urban sprawl.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Chadderton Fold, Manchester, England, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, real-time aviation weather (METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport), precipitation radar and Meteosat satellite imagery. Public safety alerts are sourced from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS), covering wind, rain, snow, ice, fog, thunderstorm and extreme heat warnings. Air quality data includes PM2.5, PM10, ozone and the UK Daily Air Quality Index (DAQI 1-10) as used by DEFRA and the Met Office. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Chadderton Fold includes coordinates 53.556614, -2.156741, in the county of Manchester, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Chadderton Fold is available on the Chadderton Fold map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Manchester weather hub.
Weather data is sourced from the Met Office and the open-source Open-Meteo API, whose ensemble includes the Met Office UKMO model. Severe weather warnings come from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS). River level and tidal data are sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring and National Tide Gauge Network APIs. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov, with a modelled estimate shown where no reporting station is in range. Radar is provided by RainViewer and satellite imagery by EUMETSAT. All data updates automatically on every page visit.