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Great Altcar Lancashire Map

Traditional county: Lancashire · District / Borough: West Lancashire · Region: North West

Explore Great Altcar, Lancashire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Great Altcar 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.

Interactive Map of Great Altcar, Lancashire

How to Use This Great Altcar, Lancashire Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Great Altcar, Lancashire, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

Drag the map to pan to any area of Lancashire or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Great Altcar and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.

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PlaceGreat Altcar
Traditional CountyLancashire
District / BoroughWest Lancashire
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Latitude53.549597
Longitude-3.021016
Place TypeVillage

About Great Altcar

Great Altcar rests on the Lancashire plain, a place where the sky feels vast and the land stretches with a quiet, determined green. It lies 2.7 km east-south-east of Formby (from Formby: bearing 108°T, OS grid SD 324 063). The air here often carries the scent of damp earth, a constant reminder of the surrounding agricultural fields that have shaped this landscape for generations, their furrows like ancient, patient lines drawn across the horizon. The village church, St. Stephen's, stands as a stoic sentinel, its stone weathered by countless seasons, a quiet testament to the enduring faith and community that has long called Great Altcar home. Even the light seems to possess a particular quality, a soft diffusion that lends a subtle glow to the brickwork of the cottages and the broad leaves of the hedgerows. The rhythm of Great Altcar is one of slow, deliberate growth, mirroring the patient cultivation of the land that defines its very being.

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About This Great Altcar Map Page

Explore Great Altcar, Lancashire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 53.549597, -3.021016. 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 builtAugust 2026
Location dataOS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0.
County dataTraditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography.
CoordinatesWGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data.