Traditional county: Derbyshire · District / Borough: Derbyshire Dales · Region: East Midlands
Explore Snelston, Derbyshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Snelston 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 | Snelston |
| Traditional County | Derbyshire |
| District / Borough | Derbyshire Dales |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.987387 |
| Longitude | -1.772853 |
| Place Type | Village |
Snelston, a quiet corner of the Derbyshire Dales, offers a gentle respite from the world's clamour. It lies 4.4 km south-west of Ashbourne (from Ashbourne: bearing 219°T, OS grid SK 153 433), and is situated south-west of Clifton village. The landscape surrounding Snelston unfolds with a subtle, almost Vermeer-like quality of light, where fields of green appear brushed with strokes of gold under a wide, expansive sky. Ancient hedgerows, thick with the scent of hawthorn in spring and the promise of blackberries in autumn, trace the contours of the land, hinting at centuries of husbandry. The very air here seems to carry a faint echo of the past, not in grand pronouncements, but in the quiet persistence of stone walls and the patient growth of oak trees. It is a place where the turning seasons dictate the rhythm of life, a hushed counterpoint to the hurried pulse of modern existence.
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Explore Snelston, 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: 52.987387, -1.772853. 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. |