Traditional county: Leicestershire · District / Borough: Hinckley and Bosworth · Region: East Midlands
Explore Merry Lees, Leicestershire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Merry Lees 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 | Merry Lees |
| Traditional County | Leicestershire |
| District / Borough | Hinckley and Bosworth |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.647876 |
| Longitude | -1.307653 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Merry Lees, a quiet hamlet in Leicestershire, holds its place with a gentle composure. It lies 6.8 km east-north-east of Market Bosworth (from Market Bosworth: bearing 68°T, OS grid SK 469 057), and is situated west-north-west of Botcheston village. The land hereabouts, a quilt of arable fields, often catches the low afternoon sun, painting the hedgerows in strokes of warm gold. Though not a place of grand pronouncements, Merry Lees carries the subtle murmur of its agricultural past, the fields themselves seeming to hold the echo of seasons turned. The air, particularly on a still morning, can carry the faint, earthy scent of turned soil, a reminder of the enduring connection to the land. It is a landscape that does not shout its beauty, but rather offers it in quiet, observant moments, where the sky feels vast and the horizon promises unbroken continuity.
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Explore Merry Lees, 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: 52.647876, -1.307653. 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. |