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Shawforth Lancashire Map

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

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

How to Use This Shawforth, Lancashire Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Shawforth, 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 Shawforth and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.

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PlaceShawforth
Traditional CountyLancashire
District / BoroughRossendale
RegionNorth West
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Latitude53.680620
Longitude-2.166861
Place TypeSuburban Area

About Shawforth

Shawforth rests in the Rossendale district, a place where the land rises and falls with a quiet determination. It lies 2.4 km north-north-east of Whitworth (from Whitworth: bearing 12°T, OS grid SD 890 204). The air here, particularly on a crisp autumn morning, carries a faint, earthy scent, a legacy of the agricultural past that still clings to the surrounding slopes, even as the suburban houses cluster in neat rows. There is a particular quality to the light that filters through the scattered trees, a soft, diffused glow that seems to soften the edges of the brickwork and the tarmac. The local economy, once dominated by the mills that hummed with the industry of a bygone era, has shifted, but the echoes of that industrious spirit can still be felt in the sturdy, practical nature of the place. The nearby moors, vast and often windswept, offer a constant, silent counterpoint to the more ordered life of Shawforth, a reminder of wilder landscapes that lie just beyond the familiar hedgerows.

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About This Shawforth Map Page

Explore Shawforth, 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: 53.680620, -2.166861. 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.