Traditional county: Hertfordshire · District / Borough: Stevenage · Region: Eastern
Explore Chells, Hertfordshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Chells 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 | Chells |
| Traditional County | Hertfordshire |
| District / Borough | Stevenage |
| Region | Eastern |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.908069 |
| Longitude | -0.169652 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
Chells unfurls its suburban character under the broad Hertfordshire sky, a place where the gentle hum of modern life mingles with the echoes of a rural past. It lies 2.2 km east-north-east of Stevenage (from Stevenage: bearing 73°T, OS grid TL 260 248). The landscape hereabouts is a canvas of cultivated fields, often touched by the soft, diffused light that filters through English clouds, lending a certain quiet grace to the ordinary. Though not a place of grand pronouncements or ancient ruins, Chells possesses a grounded charm, its residential streets bordered by neat gardens that, in season, burst with the cheerful colours of a thousand blooms. The very air seems to carry a whisper of its agricultural heritage, a subtle reminder of the fields that once dominated this land before the advent of suburban expansion. One might imagine the contented sigh of the earth beneath the well-tended lawns, a silent witness to the passage of seasons.
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Explore Chells, Hertfordshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.908069, -0.169652. 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. |