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M8

Postcode district · Broughton, Cheetham, Crumpsall, Harpurhey · Bury, Manchester, Salford · England

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What is already known about M8

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

Live postcodes
804 in M8
Localities
Broughton, Cheetham, Crumpsall, Harpurhey
Local authority
Bury, Manchester, Salford
Country
England
Centre postcode
M8 9LT
Postcode-point mapM8

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 M8 9LT — the live postcode nearest the centre of the area. They describe that point, not every street. Crime is counted across the whole Lower Crumpsall policing neighbourhood, which is the Police.uk boundary containing M8 9LT. 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 · Lower Crumpsall neighbourhood

Recorded incidents

Connected
0records in
July 2026

One month of records for the Lower Crumpsall 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.

Lower Crumpsall 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.

About Planning Data

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 M8 9LT, 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.

12everyday places mapped within 1.2 km of the postcode point

Food shopping

6

Supermarkets and convenience stores.

  1. 87 mManchester SuperstoreCheetham Hill Road, Cheetham HillMap ↗
  2. 428 mWorldwideCrescent Road, CrumpsallMap ↗
  3. 501 mIstanbul SupermarketCrescent Road, CrumpsallMap ↗
  4. 578 mTescoThomas Street, CrumpsallMap ↗
  5. 1.1 kmAsdaGreat Cheetham Street East, Higher BroughtonMap ↗
  6. 1.1 kmLidlQueens Road, Cheetham HillMap ↗

Health

3

Pharmacies, GP surgeries and dentists.

  1. 93 mWise PharmacyEsmond Road, Cheetham HillMap ↗
  2. 612 mBootsCheetham Hill Road, CrumpsallMap ↗
  3. 914 mCohensCheetham Hill Road, Cheetham HillMap ↗

Exercise

0

Gyms, leisure centres and swimming pools.

Nothing of this kind returned within the radius.

Civic and everyday

3

Libraries, post offices and community buildings.

  1. 309 mHightown Post Office365, Waterloo RoadMap ↗
  2. 538 mWai Yin Society18-32, Brentfield AvenueMap ↗
  3. 800 mCrumpsall Green Post OfficeWoodfield Road, CrumpsallMap ↗

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 M8 9LT, 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.

10open 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. 754 mMandley ParkBroughton Park, SalfordMap ↗
  2. 906 mCrumpsall ParkCrumpsall, ManchesterMap ↗
  3. 1.1 kmCheetham ParkStrangeways, ManchesterMap ↗
  4. 1.1 kmHendham ValeCollyhurst, ManchesterMap ↗
  5. 1.3 kmClowes Park (Broughton Park)Broughton Park, SalfordMap ↗
  6. 1.3 kmHarpurhey ReservoirsHarpurhey, ManchesterMap ↗
  7. 1.3 kmQueen's ParkCollyhurst, ManchesterMap ↗
  8. 1.4 kmHerristone Road ParkCrumpsall, ManchesterMap ↗

Playgrounds

0

Children’s play areas mapped as such.

Nothing of this kind returned within the radius.

Nature and water

0

Nature reserves, woodland and waterside.

Nothing of this kind returned within the radius.

Outdoor sport

2

Recreation grounds, pitches and courts.

  1. 617 mSmedley FieldsCheetham Hill, ManchesterMap ↗
  2. 1.4 kmLower Crumpsall Recreation GroundBlackley, ManchesterMap ↗

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 M8 9LT, the postcode anchoring M8, and queries its own source only when you open it.