Traditional county: Hampshire · District / Borough: Basingstoke and Deane · Region: South East
Explore Townsend, Hampshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Townsend 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 | Townsend |
| Traditional County | Hampshire |
| District / Borough | Basingstoke and Deane |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.325424 |
| Longitude | -1.193339 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Townsend rests quietly within Hampshire's embrace, a scatter of homes where the land gently slopes. It lies 4.7 km south-west of Tadley (from Tadley: bearing 222°T, OS grid SU 563 587), and is situated south-south-east of Wolverton Common village. The roads here, often edged with hedgerows that seem to hold the memory of passing seasons, curve with an unhurried grace, hinting at a pace of life dictated by the slow turning of the sun. Fields, a patchwork of greens and golds under the wide English sky, stretch out, their quiet productivity a constant hum beneath the surface of everyday existence. The air itself can feel softened here, carrying the faint scent of damp earth and distant woodsmoke, a subtle perfume of the pastoral.
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Explore Townsend, Hampshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.325424, -1.193339. 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. |