Traditional county: Essex · District / Borough: Uttlesford · Region: Eastern
Explore Purton End, Essex with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Purton End 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 | Purton End |
| Traditional County | Essex |
| District / Borough | Uttlesford |
| Region | Eastern |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.993042 |
| Longitude | 0.256796 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Purton End, a quiet corner of Uttlesford, exhales the stillness of the Essex countryside. It lies 3.5 km south-south-east of Saffron Walden (from Saffron Walden: bearing 164°T, OS grid TL 550 351), and is situated north-north-west of Debden village. The fields here, often a rich, turned earth under a sky that can shift from pearlescent grey to a startling, clear blue, speak of generations of patient cultivation. The air, particularly in the early morning mist that can shroud the lanes, carries a faint, sweet scent of damp soil and distant hedgerows. Purton End's modest collection of dwellings, some with walls of weathered brick, others of timber and plaster, seem to have grown organically from the land, their roofs catching the sunlight like scattered embers. The quietude is broken only by the murmur of the wind through the trees or the call of a passing bird, a gentle reminder of the enduring pulse of the natural world.
Loading news…
Loading news-world…
Loading news-world…
Explore Purton End, 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: 51.993042, 0.256796. 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. |