Traditional county: Essex · District / Borough: Braintree · Region: Eastern
Explore Ridgewell, Essex with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Ridgewell 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 | Ridgewell |
| Traditional County | Essex |
| District / Borough | Braintree |
| Region | Eastern |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.038686 |
| Longitude | 0.529892 |
| Place Type | Village |
Ridgewell rests in the gentle curve of the East Anglian countryside, a quiet gathering of homes and fields. It lies 5.6 km south-west of Clare (from Clare: bearing 218°T, OS grid TL 736 408), and is situated south-west of Ashen village. The lanes around Ridgewell, often edged with hedgerows that catch the low afternoon sun, lead to land that has yielded crops for generations, the soil a rich, dark promise under the open sky. A modest church, its stone weathered by countless seasons, stands as a silent sentinel, its spire a delicate finger pointing towards the heavens. The air here carries the scent of damp earth and distant woodsmoke, a simple perfume of rural life. Ridgewell, though small, holds a quiet dignity, a place where the passage of time seems measured not by clocks, but by the turning of the fields.
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Explore Ridgewell, 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: 52.038686, 0.529892. 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. |