Crooke, Manchester Weather
About Crooke, Manchester
Crooke rises from the verdant, low-lying folds of the Wigan district, where the heavy Lancashire sky often reflects in the quiet, dark waters of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. It lies 1.7 miles south-south-west of Standish (from Standish: bearing 196°T, OS grid SD 553 075), and is situated south-east of Shevington village. The landscape here retains a memory of industry, softened now by the patient encroachment of reeds and the slow, meandering pulse of Ackenhurst Brook as it slips through the fields to the south-west. A solemn stillness hangs over the John Taylor's Pit War Memorial, where the names of the departed serve as a tether to a time when the rhythmic clatter of coal extraction defined the horizon. Crooke possesses a rare, muted beauty, particularly when the afternoon sun catches the surface of the waterways, turning the industrial scars into ribbons of hammered silver. The air carries a damp, earthy scent that speaks of the deep, coal-rich seams beneath the topsoil, binding the geography to its arduous past. Local life here moves with the deliberate pace of a canal barge, unbothered by the frantic hum of the wider world beyond the canal banks. This quietude defines Crooke, offering a respite where the history of the earth is written not in ink, but in the slow, persistent reclamation of nature over stone.
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About This Crooke, Manchester Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Crooke, 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 Crooke includes coordinates 53.562494, -2.675436, 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 Crooke is available on the Crooke 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.