Wilton Herefordshire Map

About Wilton

Wilton, a quiet hamlet in Herefordshire, exhales the scent of damp earth and distant woodsmoke. It lies 1.2 km west-north-west of Ross-on-Wye (from Ross-on-Wye: bearing 282°T, OS grid SO 588 243), and is situated south-east of Bridstow village. The land hereabouts falls in soft, green folds, the sort that might have been smoothed by the passage of ancient rivers, and the light, when it breaks through the ever-present, gentle cloud cover, has a peculiar, pearlescent quality. Wilton itself appears less as a planned settlement and more as a collection of dwellings that have organically arisen where the ground offered the best purchase for roots, both of timber and of human habitation. A modest church, its stone weathered to a comforting grey, stands as a quiet sentinel, its spire a slender finger pointing towards the vast, often dramatic sky of western England. The surrounding fields, a patchwork of cultivation and wilder hedgerow, hum with the unseen life of insects and the rustle of small creatures.

About This Wilton Map Page

Explore Wilton, Herefordshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.916010, -2.600209. 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.