Traditional county: Hertfordshire · District / Borough: Watford · Region: Eastern
Explore Oxhey, Hertfordshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Oxhey 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 | Oxhey |
| Traditional County | Hertfordshire |
| District / Borough | Watford |
| Region | Eastern |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.641780 |
| Longitude | -0.390232 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
Oxhey, a verdant suburb of Watford, hums with a quiet domesticity. It lies 1.5 km south-south-east of Watford (from Watford: bearing 166°T, OS grid TQ 114 948). The gentle slopes of Oxhey, often kissed by a soft, diffused light filtering through mature trees, suggest a landscape shaped as much by thoughtful planning as by nature's hand. This is a place where well-tended gardens spill over with colour in the summer months, and where the occasional glimpse of a distant chimney plume hints at lives lived in comfortable seclusion. The legacy of its development as a residential area can be seen in the neat rows of houses, each with its own small patch of green, creating a harmonious if somewhat uniform visual rhythm. Though not boasting grand historical monuments, Oxhey possesses a more subtle charm, found in the quiet dignity of its streets and the shared sense of neighbourhood that often prevails.
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Explore Oxhey, 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: 51.641780, -0.390232. 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. |