Crankwood, Manchester Weather
About Crankwood, Manchester
Crankwood emerges from the flat, reclaimed earth of the Wigan district, a place where the heavy legacy of coal mining has surrendered to the quiet reclamation of water and reed. It lies 1.8 miles north-east of Golborne (from Golborne: bearing 43°T, OS grid SJ 624 999), and is situated south of Bickershaw village. The horizon here is low and expansive, defined by the shifting, reflective surfaces of the Flashes of Wigan and Leigh, which mirror the pale, translucent skies of the North West. Across these shallow, flooded depressions, the light possesses a silvered quality, catching the movement of water birds that have reclaimed the sunken remnants of old industrial workings. Just a short distance to the west-north-west, the crumbling brickwork of Bickershaw Junction stands as a gaunt sentinel to a time when engines and iron dictated the pulse of the terrain. Now, the atmosphere is dictated by the steady, slow encroachment of the marshes, where the soil feels damp and thick beneath the seasonal grasses. Crankwood remains a distinct point of stillness, caught between the memory of deep-shaft labour and the soft, encroaching silence of the wetland wilderness.
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About This Crankwood, Manchester Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Crankwood, 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 Crankwood includes coordinates 53.494754, -2.56696, 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 Crankwood is available on the Crankwood 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.