Traditional county: Essex · District / Borough: Colchester · Region: Eastern
Explore Peldon, Essex with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Peldon 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.
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| Place | Peldon |
| Traditional County | Essex |
| District / Borough | Colchester |
| Region | Eastern |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.810918 |
| Longitude | 0.886465 |
| Place Type | Village |
Peldon commands a quiet authority over the flat, salt-licked horizons of the Essex coast, where the heavy sky often seems to press down upon the low-lying fields. It lies 2.6 miles north-north-west of West Mersea (from West Mersea: bearing 336°T, OS grid TL 990 164), and is situated east-north-east of Great Wigborough village. The landscape here is defined by an openness that permits the wind to scour the earth, carrying the sharp, briny scent of the nearby Bonner's Saltings across the road verges. Peldon remains a place of sparse, singular beauty, where the light shifts across the marshland with a restless, silver intensity. A short walk to the north, the modest rise of St Ives Hill offers a vantage point over this austere geography, revealing how the land yields reluctantly to the encroaching tides. The architecture of the parish church stands as a sturdy anchor against the vastness, its masonry bearing the weathered patina of centuries of exposure. Life in Peldon follows the slow, seasonal pulse of the surrounding agricultural plains, indifferent to the encroaching clamour of the modern world.
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Explore Peldon, 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: 51.810918, 0.886465. 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. |