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Meavy Devon Map

Traditional county: Devon · District / Borough: West Devon · Region: South West

Explore Meavy, Devon with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Meavy 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.

This page also offers OS MAPS — Ordnance Survey Outdoor mapping and the OS Explorer 1:25 000 sheets — plus a labelled National Grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid reference readout. See How to Use This Map below. You will find live weather, local and world news further down the page.

Interactive Map of Meavy, Devon

How to Use This Meavy, Devon Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Meavy, Devon, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

Drag the map to pan to any area of Devon or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Meavy and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.

OS MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows OS Outdoor mapping — contours, footpaths, bridleways and access land. Explorer 1:25k shows the OS Explorer sheets themselves: the orange-covered 1:25 000 maps walkers, fell runners and mountain rescue teams use, with field boundaries, rights of way and open access land. The search box finds any British town, village or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Meavy.

Reading the map like a paper Explorer sheet. Click Grid to overlay the OS National Grid, labelled along the edges exactly as a printed sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference such as NY 266 234 by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as an OS National Grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what mountain rescue and the coastguard work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need mobile coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your grid reference stays correct even where the map itself cannot load, which in the Lakes, the Dales and the Highlands is often exactly where you need it.

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PlaceMeavy
Traditional CountyDevon
District / BoroughWest Devon
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Latitude50.486422
Longitude-4.058177
Place TypeVillage

About Meavy

Granite-hewn cottages and an ancient oak tree define the quiet character of Meavy. It lies 5.8 miles south-east of Tavistock (from Tavistock: bearing 139°T, OS grid SX 540 672), and is situated south-south-east of Dousland village. Sheltered by the rugged expanse of Dartmoor National Park, the houses here seem to emerge directly from the thin, acidic soil of the moorland fringe. A short walk to the south-east reveals the grey, weathered form of Marchant’s Cross, a stony sentinel that has watched the slow passage of seasons for centuries. The air carries a sharp, clean scent of gorse and damp earth, particularly as one approaches the nearby Burrator Quarries Sssi. Meavy maintains a stillness that feels untouched by the frantic pace of modern transit, favouring instead the slow, rhythmic dripping of rain from moss-covered walls. Sunlight here possesses a peculiar, pale clarity, casting long shadows across the village green that stretch toward the horizon with a deliberate, haunting precision. This is a place where the landscape dictates the habits of those who dwell within it, binding them to the cycles of the high moor.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Dartmoor National Park (National Park) — locality lies within · 956 ha
  • Marchant's Cross (Historic Ruins) — 0.4 mi, 125° SE
  • Marchant'S Cross: A Wayside Cross 700M South East Of Meavy (Scheduled Monument) — 0.5 mi, 127° SE
  • Burrator Quarries Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 0.7 mi, 062° ENE
  • Yelverton Reservoir (Lake / Reservoir) — 0.9 mi, 043° NE
  • Base of Suspension Bridge (Historic Ruins) — 0.9 mi, 050° NE
  • Lovaton Brook (River) — 1.0 mi, 149° SSE
  • Greenwell Girt Socket Stone 600M Ssw Of Lovaton Hamlet (Scheduled Monument) — 1.0 mi, 170° S
  • Two Hut Circles S Of Catstor Down (Scheduled Monument) — 1.1 mi, 171° S
  • Burrator Reservoir (Lake / Reservoir) — 1.2 mi, 045° NE
  • Sheepstor Brook (River) — 1.3 mi, 080° E
  • Sheeps Tor (Hill / Mountain) — 1.7 mi, 068° ENE
  • Brisworthy stone circle (Attraction) — 1.8 mi, 124° SE
  • Peek Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 1.9 mi, 030° NNE
  • Shaugh Prior Woods Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 2.1 mi, 178° S · 88 ha
  • Hele Bottom (Valley) — 2.9 mi, 208° SSW
  • The Garden House (Attraction) — 2.9 mi, 281° WNW
  • Big Pond (Lake / Reservoir) — 3.3 mi, 138° SE
  • Great Shaugh Wood (Forest / Woodland) — 4.2 mi, 192° SSW
  • Blackmoorham Wood (Forest / Woodland) — 4.4 mi, 285° WNW
  • Whitchurch Down (Park) — 4.7 mi, 326° NW
  • Peregrine Falcon viewing spot (Viewpoint) — 4.9 mi, 191° SSW
  • The Pimple (Viewpoint) — 5.0 mi, 321° NW
  • Drama Theatre (Theatre) — 5.1 mi, 206° SSW
  • Dartmoor Prison Museum (Museum) — 5.1 mi, 030° NNE
  • Goodwin Park (Park) — 5.2 mi, 216° SW
  • Foxtor Mires (Wetland) — 5.2 mi, 065° ENE
  • H M Prison Dartmoor: American Prisoner Of War Cemetery (Historic Park or Garden) — 5.2 mi, 033° NNE
  • Yealm Steps (Waterfall) — 5.3 mi, 113° ESE
  • Ducks' Pool (Wetland) — 5.3 mi, 084° E

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About This Meavy Map Page

Explore Meavy, Devon, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 50.486422, -4.058177. 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.

Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any British town, village or landmark by name; offers OS Outdoor and the OS Explorer 1:25 000 sheets as base layers; overlays a labelled OS National Grid so the map can be read like a printed Explorer sheet; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as an OS National Grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require mobile coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the grid reference remains correct even where the map cannot load.

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 builtOctober 2026
Location dataOS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; OS Outdoor and OS Explorer 1:25 000 via the OS Maps API — contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights; magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
County dataTraditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography.
CoordinatesWGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data.