Rakewood Manchester Map
Traditional county: Manchester · District / Borough: Rochdale · Region: North West
Explore Rakewood, Manchester with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Rakewood 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 Rakewood, Manchester
How to Use This Rakewood, Manchester Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Rakewood, Manchester, 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 Manchester or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Rakewood and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.
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| Place | Rakewood |
| Traditional County | Manchester |
| District / Borough | Rochdale |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.625779 |
| Longitude | -2.085616 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
About Rakewood
Rakewood breathes a quiet resilience, a scatter of dwellings clinging to the Lancashire hillside. It lies 2.1 km south-south-east of Littleborough (from Littleborough: bearing 161°T, OS grid SD 944 143). The air here, even on a grey day, carries the faintest tang of damp earth and distant sheep, a scent that seems to have settled deep into the stone walls of its older cottages. Though its industrial past, tied to the mills that once hummed with ceaseless activity, has largely faded, the echoes remain in the sturdy architecture and the way the land itself seems to hold its breath. There's a particular slant of light that can, on occasion, catch the rough-hewn stone and lend it a momentary, burnished warmth, as if the very bedrock remembers a brighter sun. The surrounding moors, a sweep of heather and bracken under a vast sky, offer a constant, wild counterpoint to the human habitations of Rakewood.
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About This Rakewood Map Page
Explore Rakewood, Manchester, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 53.625779, -2.085616. 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 built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |
