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Shenley Church End Buckinghamshire Map

Traditional county: Buckinghamshire · Unitary authority: Milton Keynes · Region: South East

Explore Shenley Church End, Buckinghamshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Shenley Church End 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 Shenley Church End, Buckinghamshire

How to Use This Shenley Church End, Buckinghamshire Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Shenley Church End, Buckinghamshire, 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 Buckinghamshire or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Shenley Church End 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 Shenley Church End.

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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PlaceShenley Church End
Traditional CountyBuckinghamshire
Unitary AuthorityMilton Keynes
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Latitude52.024600
Longitude-0.787732
Place TypeSuburban Area

About Shenley Church End

Shenley Church End retains the quiet gravity of a place where ancient earthworks still hold the imprint of medieval ambition. It lies 1.9 miles south-west of Milton Keynes (from Milton Keynes: bearing 228°T, OS grid SP 832 369). Low, pale light often catches the remnants of the motte and bailey castle at The Toot, where the grass grows thick over the ghosts of a vanished manor. Shenley Church End anchors itself in this landscape, balancing the modern sprawl of its suburban streets against the silent, enduring geography of the nearby moated sites. Furzton Lake draws a sharp, reflective boundary along the southern edge, its water catching the grey English sky like a fallen mirror. The architecture here shifts from the stark honesty of residential brick to the soft, weathered stone of St Mary’s Church, which has observed the turning of the seasons for centuries. Shadows stretch long across the open fields at dusk, suggesting a depth of time that persists beneath the hum of contemporary life. The land remains heavy with a history that refuses to be entirely paved over, asserting its presence in the curve of the ground and the stillness of the air.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Furzton Lake (Park) — locality lies within
  • The Toot (Park) — 0.4 mi, 208° SSW
  • The Toot: A Motte And Bailey Castle And Later Manorial Complex 450M South West Of St Mary'S Church (Scheduled Monument) — 0.4 mi, 209° SSW · 4 ha
  • Moated Site, Fishpond And Associated Earthworks 150M West Of Loughton Manor (Scheduled Monument) — 0.5 mi, 055° NE · 5 ha
  • A Medieval Manorial Complex Comprising A Twin Moated Site, Fishpond And Associated Earthworks 750M West Of St Mary'S Church (Scheduled Monument) — 0.5 mi, 249° WSW · 3 ha
  • Gambado (Theme Park) — 0.7 mi, 107° ESE
  • Obelisk (Monument) — 0.7 mi, 338° NNW
  • Sundial (Monument) — 0.8 mi, 116° ESE
  • Kidsplay Activity Land (Theme Park) — 0.8 mi, 107° ESE
  • Portals (Public Artwork) — 1.1 mi, 128° SE
  • Oxley Mead Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 1.5 mi, 211° SSW · 3 ha
  • Milton Keynes City Discovery Centre (Museum) — 1.6 mi, 348° NNW
  • Brickz (Museum) — 1.9 mi, 042° NE
  • Milton Keynes Theatre (Theatre) — 2.1 mi, 050° NE
  • train (Attraction) — 2.2 mi, 343° NNW
  • The Belvedere (Viewpoint) — 2.4 mi, 050° NE
  • The Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 2.4 mi, 052° NE
  • Church Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 2.5 mi, 222° SW
  • Campbell Park, Milton Keynes (Historic Park or Garden) — 2.6 mi, 052° NE · 48 ha
  • The National Museum of Computing (Museum) — 2.6 mi, 134° SE
  • Hut 1 (Museum) — 2.7 mi, 134° SE
  • Hut 3 (Museum) — 2.7 mi, 134° SE
  • Bletchley Park (Attraction) — 2.8 mi, 132° SE
  • Walton Lake (Lake / Reservoir) — 3.0 mi, 091° E
  • Splash (Attraction) — 3.0 mi, 057° ENE
  • Willen Observation Wheel (Attraction) — 3.3 mi, 056° NE
  • Wolverton Castle (site of) (Historic Ruins) — 3.3 mi, 327° NNW
  • Farm Hide (Viewpoint) — 3.5 mi, 334° NNW
  • The Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 3.6 mi, 244° WSW
  • Water Eaton Brook (River) — 3.6 mi, 138° SE

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About This Shenley Church End Map Page

Explore Shenley Church End, Buckinghamshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 52.024600, -0.787732. 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.