Traditional county: Leicestershire · District / Borough: Melton · Region: East Midlands
Explore Grimston, Leicestershire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Grimston 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 | Grimston |
| Traditional County | Leicestershire |
| District / Borough | Melton |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.790004 |
| Longitude | -0.985123 |
| Place Type | Village |
Grimston, a quiet heart in Leicestershire's Melton district, breathes a gentle, earthbound character. It lies 7.0 km west-north-west of Melton Mowbray (from Melton Mowbray: bearing 292°T, OS grid SK 685 218), and is situated north-west of Saxelbye village. The fields surrounding Grimston, a patchwork of greens and golds under the broad East Midlands sky, have long been turned by the plough, their furrows a testament to generations of husbandry. A sense of permanence resides in the ancient stones of its parish church, St. John the Baptist, its tower a quiet sentinel against the turning seasons. The air here often carries the faint, sweet scent of hay in summer or the damp earthiness of autumn, a perfume of the land itself. Grimston's small scale allows a direct connection to the surrounding countryside, where hedgerows, thick with hawthorn and elder, form verdant arteries through the arable landscape.
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Explore Grimston, 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: 52.790004, -0.985123. 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. |