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Chellington Bedfordshire Map

Traditional county: Bedfordshire · Unitary authority: Bedford · Region: Eastern

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

This page also offers OS MAPS — Ordnance Survey Outdoor mapping and the OS Explorer 1:25 000 sheets — plus a labelled National Grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid reference readout. See How to Use This Map below. You will find live weather, local and world news further down the page.

Interactive Map of Chellington, Bedfordshire

How to Use This Chellington, Bedfordshire Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Chellington, Bedfordshire, 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 Bedfordshire or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Chellington and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.

OS MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows OS Outdoor mapping — contours, footpaths, bridleways and access land. Explorer 1:25k shows the OS Explorer sheets themselves: the orange-covered 1:25 000 maps walkers, fell runners and mountain rescue teams use, with field boundaries, rights of way and open access land. The search box finds any British town, village or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Chellington.

Reading the map like a paper Explorer sheet. Click Grid to overlay the OS National Grid, labelled along the edges exactly as a printed sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference such as NY 266 234 by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as an OS National Grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what mountain rescue and the coastguard work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need mobile coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your grid reference stays correct even where the map itself cannot load, which in the Lakes, the Dales and the Highlands is often exactly where you need it.

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PlaceChellington
Traditional CountyBedfordshire
Unitary AuthorityBedford
RegionEastern
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Latitude52.192019
Longitude-0.601395
Place TypeVillage

About Chellington

Chellington commands a quiet prominence upon the limestone ridges that overlook the winding course of the River Great Ouse. It lies 4.9 miles east-north-east of Olney (from Olney: bearing 61°T, OS grid SP 957 557), and is situated east-north-east of Carlton village. The earth here retains the ghostly impressions of an abandoned medieval settlement, where long-forgotten foundations sleep beneath the meadow grass. To the north-north-east, the expansive waters of Kingfisher Lake catch the shifting greys and silvers of the Bedfordshire sky, reflecting a stillness that has endured for centuries. Chellington remains defined by this intersection of ancient, vanished habitation and the persistent, unblinking clarity of the local wetlands. The horizon is marked by the subtle rise of Cracknell Hill, which breaks the monotony of the flat horizon and offers a vantage point across the pastoral expanse. Such terrain demands a patient eye, for the beauty of the landscape reveals itself not in grand gestures but in the precise, muted colours of the turning seasons. Here, the weight of the past lingers in the soil, quietly anchoring the present to the echoes of an earlier age.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Kingfisher Water (Lake / Reservoir) — 0.6 mi, 025° NNE
  • Harrold Round House (Scheduled Monument) — 0.6 mi, 333° NNW
  • The Green (Park) — 0.7 mi, 333° NNW
  • Tri-Focal Abandoned Medieval Settlement, Chellington. (Scheduled Monument) — 0.7 mi, 069° ENE · 22 ha
  • Harrold-Odell Country Park (Park) — 0.8 mi, 022° NNE
  • Grebe Lake (Lake / Reservoir) — 0.8 mi, 015° NNE
  • Chellington lost village (Historic Ruins) — 0.8 mi, 079° ENE
  • Cracknell Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 0.9 mi, 295° WNW
  • Little Odell Abandoned Medieval Village (Scheduled Monument) — 1.0 mi, 000° N · 2 ha
  • Coldharbour Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 1.6 mi, 287° WNW
  • Odell Great Wood Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 1.9 mi, 006° N · 86 ha
  • Stevington Marsh Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 1.9 mi, 109° ESE · 8 ha
  • Park Wood (Forest / Woodland) — 2.1 mi, 318° NW
  • Historic Park And Garden To Turvey House (Historic Park or Garden) — 2.1 mi, 212° SSW · 61 ha
  • Santa Pod Raceway (Attraction) — 3.3 mi, 005° N
  • Plain Pond (Lake / Reservoir) — 3.4 mi, 007° N
  • Sharn Brook (River) — 3.5 mi, 053° NE
  • Mill Theatre (Theatre) — 3.9 mi, 060° ENE
  • Darnell's Dene (Valley) — 4.4 mi, 005° N
  • The Arches Theatre (Theatre) — 4.5 mi, 238° WSW
  • Petsoe Manor (Site Of) (Historic Ruins) — 4.6 mi, 211° SSW
  • Fire Museum (Museum) — 4.8 mi, 100° E
  • MT Museum (Museum) — 4.9 mi, 099° E
  • 1940's Re-enactors (Museum) — 4.9 mi, 099° E
  • bird hide (Viewpoint) — 5.0 mi, 123° ESE
  • Panckae Race Sculpture (Public Artwork) — 5.0 mi, 238° WSW
  • Cowper and Newton Museum (Museum) — 5.0 mi, 237° WSW
  • Wollaston Museum (Museum) — 5.4 mi, 327° NNW
  • Olney Beacon (Viewpoint) — 5.5 mi, 244° WSW
  • Wollaston and Strixton War Memorial (Monument) — 5.5 mi, 327° NNW

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About This Chellington Map Page

Explore Chellington, Bedfordshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 52.192019, -0.601395. 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.

Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any British town, village or landmark by name; offers OS Outdoor and the OS Explorer 1:25 000 sheets as base layers; overlays a labelled OS National Grid so the map can be read like a printed Explorer sheet; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as an OS National Grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require mobile coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the grid reference remains correct even where the map cannot load.

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 builtOctober 2026
Location dataOS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; OS Outdoor and OS Explorer 1:25 000 via the OS Maps API — contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights; magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
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.