Traditional county: Cornwall · Region: South West
Explore Box's Shop, Cornwall with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Box's Shop 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 | Box's Shop |
| Traditional County | Cornwall |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 50.785940 |
| Longitude | -4.536413 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Box's Shop, a quiet corner of Cornwall, breathes with the hushed spirit of the South West. It lies 5.1 km south of Bude (from Bude: bearing 173°T, OS grid SS 213 015), and is situated east-south-east of Widemouth Bay village. The gentle slope of the land here seems to hold the soft Cornish light, a pearly luminescence that washes over the scattered cottages and the surrounding fields of green. The air, when the wind carries it from the nearby coast, often bears the faint, briny tang of the Atlantic, a subtle reminder of the wilder beauty that lies just beyond the gentle undulations of the terrain. Life in Box's Shop unfolds with a quiet cadence, a rhythm dictated more by the changing seasons and the needs of the land than by the hurried pulse of larger centres. Small lanes, winding like ancient streams, connect the scattered dwellings, each one a small sanctuary against the expansive sky.
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Explore Box's Shop, Cornwall, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 50.785940, -4.536413. 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. |