Traditional county: Essex · District / Borough: Braintree · Region: Eastern
Explore Panfield, Essex with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Panfield 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Panfield, Essex, 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.
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| Place | Panfield |
| Traditional County | Essex |
| District / Borough | Braintree |
| Region | Eastern |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.898582 |
| Longitude | 0.523828 |
| Place Type | Village |
Panfield exhales a quiet, agrarian stillness across the Essex plateau, defined by the slow, deliberate work of seasonal change. It lies 1.9 miles north-west of Braintree (from Braintree: bearing 318°T, OS grid TL 737 252), and is situated north-north-west of Rayne village. Narrow lanes carve through the heavy clay, linking pockets of ancient woodland where the light filters down in thin, silver needles. To the north, the River Pant traces a serpentine path through the fields, its waters often sluggish and dark against the encroaching shadow of the hedgerows. Panfield preserves a sense of isolation, punctuated only by the distant, rhythmic hum of the nearby market town. From the gentle rise of Chapel Hill, the horizon appears flattened, a vast expanse of arable land that holds the memory of every ploughshare to turn its soil. The horizon is rarely broken, save for the occasional silhouette of a farmstead or the stark, skeletal reach of winter trees. Life here moves with the patience of the land, indifferent to the hurried pace of the modern world pressing against its edges.
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Explore Panfield, 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: 51.898582, 0.523828. 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 | August 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. |