Traditional county: Leicestershire · Unitary authority: City of Leicester · Region: East Midlands
Explore New Found Pool, Leicestershire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the New Found Pool 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 | New Found Pool |
| Traditional County | Leicestershire |
| Unitary Authority | City of Leicester |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.638868 |
| Longitude | -1.152569 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
New Found Pool offers a quiet corner of Leicestershire, where the fields seem to hold their breath under the wide East Midlands sky. It lies 1.4 km west-north-west of Leicester (from Leicester: bearing 294°T, OS grid SK 574 049). The gentle slopes around New Found Pool, etched with the faintest of drainage ditches, suggest a landscape shaped by centuries of careful cultivation, where the light often falls with a soft, diffused quality, lending a certain tenderness to the hedgerows. Though its origins are humble, the very name hints at a discovery, a place of unexpected bounty or perhaps a forgotten watering hole that once served travellers. Today, the predominant impression is one of settled domesticity, of gardens meticulously tended and the distant hum of traffic a reminder of its proximity to the larger urban sprawl. The air here, particularly on a mild evening, carries a faint, earthy scent, a blend of damp soil and the burgeoning life of summer meadows.
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Explore New Found Pool, 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: 52.638868, -1.152569. 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. |