Traditional county: Cumbria · Unitary authority: Westmorland and Furness · Region: North West
Explore Colton, Cumbria with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Colton 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 | Colton |
| Traditional County | Cumbria |
| Unitary Authority | Westmorland and Furness |
| Region | North West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 54.264484 |
| Longitude | -3.050460 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Colton rests in the gentle embrace of Cumbria's verdant landscape. It lies 8.2 km north-north-east of Ulverston (from Ulverston: bearing 20°T, OS grid SD 316 859), and is situated west-north-west of Bouth village. The hamlet unfolds with a quiet dignity, its stone cottages catching the diffused Cumbrian light, a soft luminescence that seems to seep from the very earth. Fields, stitched together by ancient dry-stone walls, ripple outwards, a patchwork of greens and golds that shift with the passing clouds. A faint scent of damp soil and woodsmoke often hangs in the air, a comforting perfume of rural life. Colton, though small, holds a certain stillness, a place where the hurried pulse of the world seems to recede, leaving only the whisper of the wind through the hedgerows.
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Explore Colton, Cumbria, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 54.264484, -3.050460. 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. |