Firwood Fold, Manchester Weather
About Firwood Fold, Manchester
Firwood Fold retains a quiet, stone-hewn resilience that stands apart from the encroaching modern sprawl of the Bolton district. It lies 1.6 miles north-east of Bolton (from Bolton: bearing 41°T, OS grid SD 732 110). Heavy, dark gritstone cottages form the core of Firwood Fold, their low lintels and uneven thresholds suggesting a time when the looms of Lancashire dictated the pace of human life. The light here often catches the grey grain of the masonry, softening the sharp edges of the seventeenth-century architecture as evening approaches. A short walk to the north-east leads to the quiet periphery of Longsight Park, where the land opens into broader, grassy expanses that contrast with the tightly clustered dwellings. To the north-west, the verdant stillness of the Hall I'th' Wood Community Garden offers a place of quiet reflection for those who wander from the historic heart of the site. The surrounding geography remains scarred by the industrial ambition of the past, yet the air carries a persistent, damp freshness drawn from the nearby river systems. Firwood Fold survives as a fragment of a vanishing landscape, where the weight of history is measured in the cold, unyielding texture of the local stone.
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About This Firwood Fold, Manchester Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Firwood 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 Firwood Fold includes coordinates 53.595597, -2.405099, 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 Firwood Fold is available on the Firwood 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.