Traditional county: Essex · District / Borough: Braintree · Region: Eastern
Explore Great Yeldham, Essex with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Great Yeldham 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 | Great Yeldham |
| Traditional County | Essex |
| District / Borough | Braintree |
| Region | Eastern |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.015694 |
| Longitude | 0.563486 |
| Place Type | Village |
Great Yeldham rests quietly in the gentle folds of the Essex countryside. It lies 7.1 km south of Clare (from Clare: bearing 190°T, OS grid TL 760 383), and is situated south of Tilbury Juxta Clare village. The River Colne, a modest artery of the landscape, winds its way through the parish, its banks often softened by the delicate blush of wildflowers in spring. The parish church, St. Michael's, stands as a modest sentinel, its flint and stone weathered by centuries, its spire a slender finger pointing towards the vast, often subtly shifting, East Anglian sky. Here, the air carries the faint, earthy scent of cultivated fields, a constant reminder of the agricultural life that has shaped this corner of England. The pace of life in Great Yeldham often reflects the slow, deliberate turning of the seasons, a quiet continuity that lends a certain grace to its existence.
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Explore Great Yeldham, 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: 52.015694, 0.563486. 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. |