Traditional county: Derbyshire · District / Borough: North East Derbyshire · Region: East Midlands
Explore Lightwood, Derbyshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Lightwood 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 | Lightwood |
| Traditional County | Derbyshire |
| District / Borough | North East Derbyshire |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.333006 |
| Longitude | -1.433112 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Lightwood, a quiet hamlet in North East Derbyshire, exhales a sense of enduring peace. It lies 4.4 km north-east of Dronfield (from Dronfield: bearing 40°T, OS grid SK 378 819), and is situated west-north-west of Ridgeway village. The landscape around Lightwood unfurls with a gentle, almost contemplative grace, the fields a patchwork of subtle greens and browns under the wide Derbyshire sky. Faint echoes of a more industrial past can still be perceived in the contours of the land, a quiet reminder of the hands that shaped it. The air, especially in the early morning, carries a crisp clarity, hinting at the proximity of the moors. Even the simplest stone walls seem to possess a patient dignity, marking out boundaries with an unhurried permanence. Lightwood remains a place where time seems to flow with a softer cadence.
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Explore Lightwood, 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: 53.333006, -1.433112. 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. |