Traditional county: Cambridgeshire · District / Borough: Fenland · Region: Eastern
Explore King's Dyke, Cambridgeshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the King's Dyke 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.
| Place | King's Dyke |
| Traditional County | Cambridgeshire |
| District / Borough | Fenland |
| Region | Eastern |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.554168 |
| Longitude | -0.175348 |
| Place Type | Village |
King's Dyke exhales the wide, flat breath of the Fens. It lies 3.3 km west of Whittlesey (from Whittlesey: bearing 265°T, OS grid TL 238 967). Here, the horizon stretches with an unhurried immensity, a canvas where the sky often bleeds into the land in washes of pale gold and bruised lavender. The village itself, a quiet collection of homes, seems to have settled into the earth like a patient seed, its character shaped by the slow, inexorable work of water and agriculture that has defined this region for centuries. The air carries a faint scent of damp soil and distant, cultivated fields, a subtle perfume of the land’s enduring labour. The very flatness of King's Dyke lends a unique perspective, allowing the eye to travel further and the mind to wander across the open expanse.
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Explore King's Dyke, Cambridgeshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 52.554168, -0.175348. 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 | June 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. |