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Area guidesM12

M12

Postcode district · Ancoats, Beswick, Ardwick, Gorton · Manchester · England

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What is already known about M12

Live geography from the official record. A district or place name is a group of postcodes, not one address.

Live postcodes
504 in M12
Localities
Ancoats, Beswick, Ardwick, Gorton
Local authority
Manchester
Country
England
Centre postcode
M12 4RY
Postcode-point mapM12

The pin uses Postcodes.io coordinates, not an exact entrance or title boundary.

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Official records around this point

Point sources need one coordinate, so these are anchored on M12 4RY — the live postcode nearest the centre of the area. They describe that point, not every street. Crime is counted across the whole Coverdale policing neighbourhood, which is the Police.uk boundary containing M12 4RY. Each keeps its source, its geography and its limits. Counts are counts: an incident total is not a safety measure, and an empty planning result is not a completed search.

Police.uk · Coverdale neighbourhood

Recorded incidents

Connected
0records in
July 2026

One month of records for the Coverdale policing neighbourhood — the boundary police.uk itself shows, so this figure should match theirs. Not a year. Locations are anonymised to a nearby street, not an address. Counts are not adjusted for population, visitors or reporting differences and must not be treated as a neighbourhood quality score.

Coverdale on the force site

Planning Data · England

Intersecting designations

Connected
No intersecting record returned

This means only that the postcode point did not intersect the selected Planning Data datasets. It does not mean the property has no planning constraints.

Screened at the postcode point, not a title boundary. Coverage varies by dataset and local planning authority; absence is not a clear result.

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Nearby planning applications

London only

Application-level planning data comes from the Planning London Datahub, which covers the 35 London planning authorities. No other authority publishes an equivalent feed, so nothing has been substituted.

Daily essentials

Supermarkets, pharmacies, healthcare, gyms and libraries mapped near M12 4RY, ordered by straight-line distance. OpenStreetMap is contributed data: a place missing here is not proof it does not exist, and nothing here confirms opening hours or that a business is still trading.

17everyday places mapped within 1.2 km of the postcode point

Food shopping

4

Supermarkets and convenience stores.

  1. 822 mAsdaStanley Grove, LongsightMap ↗
  2. 852 mManchester Super StoreStockport Road, LongsightMap ↗
  3. 877 mAppnaDencombe Street, LongsightMap ↗
  4. 939 mLidl2, Stanley GroveMap ↗

Health

6

Pharmacies, GP surgeries and dentists.

  1. 298 mWest Gorton Medical CentreHyde Road, LongsightMap ↗
  2. 582 mNew Bank Health Centre339, Stockport RoadMap ↗
  3. 866 mAsdaStanley Grove, LongsightMap ↗
  4. 953 mManchester Pharmacy And Health Clinic578, Stockport RoadMap ↗
  5. 989 mWise PharmacyDickenson Road, LongsightMap ↗
  6. 1.0 kmEverest Pharmacy178, Stockport RoadMap ↗

Exercise

0

Gyms, leisure centres and swimming pools.

Nothing of this kind returned within the radius.

Civic and everyday

7

Libraries, post offices and community buildings.

  1. 587 mSupporting People In NeedCoverdale Crescent, BrunswickMap ↗
  2. 611 m422 Community Hub and Cafe422, Stockport RoadMap ↗
  3. 680 mBennett Street Community Centre31, Bennett StreetMap ↗
  4. 705 mTsabaoth Freedom Centre2, Exeter CloseMap ↗
  5. 707 mPakistani Community Centre481, Stockport RoadMap ↗
  6. 717 mLongsight & District Sports & Social ClubKirkmanshulme Lane, LongsightMap ↗
  7. 1.0 kmHideOutQueensland Road, Belle VueMap ↗

Places mapped in OpenStreetMap within this distance of the postcode point, measured straight-line, and kept only where the map tags them as the kind of place the heading claims. OpenStreetMap is volunteer-maintained and this search returns the closest matches rather than every one: a short list is not proof that nothing else is there. Distances are not walking routes, and nothing here checks opening hours, whether a surgery is accepting patients, or whether a place is still trading.

Parks and green space

Parks, playgrounds, nature and outdoor sport mapped within 1.5 km of M12 4RY, ordered by straight-line distance. Distance is not a walking route, and OpenStreetMap says nothing about whether a space is open to the public, its hours or its condition.

12open spaces mapped within 1.5 km of the postcode point

Parks and commons

8

Named parks, commons and village greens open to the public.

  1. 334 mWest Gorton Community ParkBeswick, ManchesterMap ↗
  2. 578 mWonderland ParkVictoria Park, ArdwickMap ↗
  3. 865 mGorton ParkBelle Vue, ManchesterMap ↗
  4. 1.2 kmSlade Lane Community GardenLongsight, ManchesterMap ↗
  5. 1.3 kmAnnie Lees Playing FieldsBelle Vue, ManchesterMap ↗
  6. 1.4 kmSwinton Grove ParkVictoria Park, ArdwickMap ↗
  7. 1.5 kmBradford ParkBeswick, ManchesterMap ↗
  8. 1.5 kmCrowcroft ParkLevenshulme, ManchesterMap ↗

Playgrounds

4

Children’s play areas mapped as such.

  1. 1.4 kmSwinton Grove PlaygroundLincoln Grove, Victoria ParkMap ↗
  2. 1.4 kmAnnie Lees Play AreaMount Road, GortonMap ↗
  3. 1.4 kmAnnie Lees Toddler Play AreaMount Road, GortonMap ↗
  4. 1.5 kmLongsight Adventure PlaygroundWilson Street, BrunswickMap ↗

Nature and water

0

Nature reserves, woodland and waterside.

Nothing of this kind returned within the radius.

Outdoor sport

0

Recreation grounds, pitches and courts.

Nothing of this kind returned within the radius.

Places mapped in OpenStreetMap within this distance of the postcode point, measured straight-line, and kept only where the map tags them as the kind of place the heading claims. OpenStreetMap is volunteer-maintained and this search returns the closest matches rather than every one: a short list is not proof that nothing else is there. Distances are not walking routes, and nothing here checks opening hours, whether a surgery is accepting patients, or whether a place is still trading.

Look this place up in detail

Each of these opens on M12 4RY, the postcode anchoring M12, and queries its own source only when you open it.