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.
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| 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 emerges from the rolling Cornish landscape as a cluster of habitations defined by the sharp, salt-laden winds that sweep in from the Atlantic. It lies 3.1 miles south of Bude (from Bude: bearing 173°T, OS grid SS 213 015), and is situated east-south-east of Widemouth Bay village. The horizon here is dominated by an expansive, open sky that drains the colour from the fields, leaving the earth a muted, honest grey-green. Only a mile to the west-north-west, the restless tides of Widemouth Sand churn against the coast, their rhythmic pulse a constant companion to the quiet lanes of Box's Shop. Ancient earthworks endure in the surrounding pasture, where the two bowl barrows near Lower and Higher Longbeak stand as silent, grassy sentinels over the modern agricultural grid. These rounded mounds catch the low, slanted light of late afternoon, casting long shadows that stretch across the furrows like fingers of memory. The air carries a thin, metallic tang of brine, reminding all who walk these paths that the sea is never truly absent. Life here follows the slow, deliberate pace of the seasons, dictated by the turning of the soil and the shifting temper of the western weather.
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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 | August 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. |