Traditional county: Derbyshire · District / Borough: South Derbyshire · Region: East Midlands
Explore Lees, Derbyshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Lees 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 | Lees |
| Traditional County | Derbyshire |
| District / Borough | South Derbyshire |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.931521 |
| Longitude | -1.607833 |
| Place Type | Village |
Lees, a quiet corner of South Derbyshire, offers a gentle charm to those who find its embrace. It lies 8.7 km west of Derby (from Derby: bearing 275°T, OS grid SK 264 371), and is situated west-south-west of Kirk Langley village. The landscape around Lees unfolds with a subtle grace, its fields a patchwork of greens and golds under the wide East Midlands sky, often softened by a pearly, diffused light that seems to linger. Though no great abbey or castle dominates its skyline, the enduring stone of its older cottages speaks of generations who have called this place home, their lives a quiet testament to resilience. The air here carries a faint, earthy scent, a blend of rich soil and the distant promise of rain, giving Lees a tangible connection to the land it inhabits.
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Explore Lees, Derbyshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 52.931521, -1.607833. 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. |