Traditional county: Gloucestershire · District / Borough: Stroud · Region: South West
Explore Wishanger, Gloucestershire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Wishanger 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 Wishanger, 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 | Wishanger |
| Traditional County | Gloucestershire |
| District / Borough | Stroud |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.783473 |
| Longitude | -2.117242 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Wishanger emerges from the limestone plateaus of the Cotswolds as a collection of quiet, stone-built dwellings that seem to hold the morning mist in their crevices. It lies 3.3 miles east of Painswick (from Painswick: bearing 93°T, OS grid SO 920 094), and is situated south of Whiteway village. The land here slopes with a deliberate, muscular grace, defined by the dry-stone walls that partition the fields into a patchwork of pale ochre and deep, bruised green. To the south-west, the ancient earthworks of The Camp Long Barrow mark the skyline, serving as a silent sentinel that has watched over the shifting seasons for millennia. The light in Wishanger possesses a particular clarity, turning the local oolite stone to a soft, honeyed gold as the sun moves across the expansive sky. A short distance to the west, the Rough Bank, Miserden Sssi preserves a fragile, chalk-rich ecosystem where rare butterflies drift through the tall grasses. Life in Wishanger remains tethered to these cycles, where the wind carries the scent of damp earth and woodsmoke across the open fields. Such profound stillness suggests that the modern world is merely a visitor here, passing through the landscape without leaving a mark upon the enduring rock.
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Explore Wishanger, 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: 51.783473, -2.117242. 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. |