Traditional county: Leicestershire · Unitary authority: City of Leicester · Region: East Midlands
Explore Mowmacre Hill, Leicestershire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Mowmacre Hill 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 | Mowmacre Hill |
| Traditional County | Leicestershire |
| Unitary Authority | City of Leicester |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.668314 |
| Longitude | -1.144340 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
Mowmacre Hill rises gently from the Leicestershire landscape, a place where the sky seems to hold a particular, soft luminescence. It lies 3.9 km north of Leicester (from Leicester: bearing 349°T, OS grid SK 579 081), and is situated west-south-west of Birstall village. The houses of Mowmacre Hill, often rendered in the warm, local brick, present a pleasing, varied skyline against the horizon, their rooftops catching the afternoon sun. Though a suburban expanse, there remains a sense of open fields bordering its edges, where the wind whispers through the grasses, carrying the faint scent of damp earth and distant hawthorn. Children’s laughter sometimes drifts from the small parks, a bright counterpoint to the quiet hum of traffic on the main roads that connect Mowmacre Hill to the wider world. The trees, particularly the mature oaks that stand sentinel along some of the older pathways, offer a dignified, enduring presence, their branches etched against the fading light.
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Explore Mowmacre Hill, 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: 52.668314, -1.144340. 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. |