Traditional county: Leicestershire · District / Borough: North West Leicestershire · Region: East Midlands
Explore Gelsmoor, Leicestershire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Gelsmoor 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.
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| Place | Gelsmoor |
| Traditional County | Leicestershire |
| District / Borough | North West Leicestershire |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.761476 |
| Longitude | -1.402800 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
Gelsmoor occupies a modest stretch of North West Leicestershire, where the earth holds the quiet, heavy memory of coal seams deep beneath the topsoil. It lies 3.1 miles east-north-east of Ashby-de-la-Zouch (from Ashby-de-la-Zouch: bearing 71°T, OS grid SK 403 183), and is situated south-south-east of Newbold village. The landscape around Gelsmoor bears the scars of former industry, most notably the coal mining remains at Birch Coppice and Rough Park, where nature has begun to reclaim the pits with persistent, scrubby greenery. Sunlight here often catches the grey, weathered stone of older structures, casting long, melancholic shadows that seem to stretch back toward the nineteenth century. To the north-east, the rise of Vinegar Hill breaks the horizon, offering a vantage point over the fields where the air feels thin and sharp. The local terrain maintains a stoic, functional character, shaped more by the extraction of minerals than by the ornamentation of grand architecture. Gelsmoor remains defined by this intersection of industrial legacy and the slow, encroaching return of the wild hedgerow.
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Explore Gelsmoor, Leicestershire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 52.761476, -1.402800. 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 | August 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. |