Blackheath Essex Map

About Blackheath

Blackheath rests as a quiet hamlet in the broader Colchester district, its presence a gentle murmur against the Essex landscape. It lies 3.5 km south of Colchester (from Colchester: bearing 169°T, OS grid TM 004 218), and is situated south-south-east of Berechurch village. The fields surrounding Blackheath, often a rich, turned earth in autumn, hold the quiet promise of harvest, and the air here can carry the distant, lowing sound of cattle. A slender stream, barely more than a ribbon of silver on a bright day, meanders through the fields, its banks a tangle of hawthorn and bramble, providing a subtle, living boundary to the cultivated land. The houses of Blackheath, a scattering of brick and tile, seem to huddle together against the open sky, their chimneys exhaling thin plumes of smoke that dissipate quickly into the wide, often luminous, eastern sky.

About This Blackheath Map Page

Explore Blackheath, Essex, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.859220, 0.908817. 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.