Traditional county: Cambridgeshire · District / Borough: East Cambridgeshire · Region: Eastern
Explore Snailwell, Cambridgeshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Snailwell 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 | Snailwell |
| Traditional County | Cambridgeshire |
| District / Borough | East Cambridgeshire |
| Region | Eastern |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.280728 |
| Longitude | 0.409288 |
| Place Type | Village |
Snailwell, a quiet hamlet, rests in the gentle sweep of East Cambridgeshire. It lies 4.1 km north of Newmarket (from Newmarket: bearing 4°T, OS grid TL 644 674), and is situated south-west of Chippenham village. The land here, a muted palette of greens and golds under a wide, often luminous sky, slopes with an almost imperceptible grace. Snailwell's history is bound to the fertile earth, its existence a quiet hum against the larger pulse of nearby Newmarket. A church, its stone weathered by seasons, offers a quiet anchor, its spire a slender finger pointing towards the heavens. The air, particularly in the early morning or late afternoon, carries a stillness that can feel profound, as if the very air remembers the passage of centuries.
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Explore Snailwell, 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: 52.280728, 0.409288. 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. |