Traditional county: Hertfordshire · District / Borough: North Hertfordshire · Region: Eastern
Explore The Flints, Hertfordshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the The Flints 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 | The Flints |
| Traditional County | Hertfordshire |
| District / Borough | North Hertfordshire |
| Region | Eastern |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.928412 |
| Longitude | -0.351853 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
The Flints, a quiet hamlet, breathes the deep, arable air of North Hertfordshire. It lies 5.5 km west-south-west of Hitchin (from Hitchin: bearing 245°T, OS grid TL 134 268), and is situated west of Great Offley village. Here, the land rolls with a gentle, almost imperceptible grace, a canvas of fields that shift in tone from the pale gold of stubble to the rich, dark loam of newly ploughed earth. The light, when it catches the broad expanses, possesses a clarity that seems to illuminate the very soul of the countryside. Though small, The Flints carries the subtle echoes of generations who have worked this soil, their presence felt in the sturdy, unassuming architecture that dots the landscape. The quietude here is not an absence of sound, but a particular quality of stillness, broken only by the distant bleating of sheep or the rustle of wind through the hedgerows.
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Explore The Flints, 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: 51.928412, -0.351853. 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. |