Traditional county: Gloucestershire · Unitary authority: North Somerset · Region: South West
Explore Kingdown, Gloucestershire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Kingdown 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 Kingdown, Gloucestershire, 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 | Kingdown |
| Traditional County | Gloucestershire |
| Unitary Authority | North Somerset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.374653 |
| Longitude | -2.683224 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Kingdown remains a quiet sentinel of the limestone plateau, its modest lanes defined by the slow drift of clouds over the Mendip fringes. It lies 5.2 miles south-east of Nailsea (from Nailsea: bearing 141°T, OS grid ST 525 641), and is situated south of Felton village. Cold winds often carry the scent of rain across the nearby slopes of Old Hill, where the earth holds a stillness that predates the modern boundary lines. Kingdown occupies a landscape where the horizon feels vast, stripped of artifice and exposed to the changing moods of the South West sky. To the north-west, the ancient earthworks of the two confluent bowl barrows on Felton Hill rise as subtle swells in the grass, marking a long-vanished presence upon the high ground. The light here has a sharp, clarifying quality, particularly in the late afternoon when the shadows lengthen across the dry-stone walls. Life in Kingdown follows the cadence of the seasons, unencumbered by the frantic pace of the larger valleys below. Such remnants of the past anchor the hamlet to the underlying bedrock, ensuring that Kingdown persists as a solitary, enduring fragment of the Gloucestershire countryside.
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Explore Kingdown, Gloucestershire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.374653, -2.683224. 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. |