Traditional county: Leicestershire · District / Borough: Hinckley and Bosworth · Region: East Midlands
Explore Peckleton Common, Leicestershire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Peckleton Common 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Peckleton Common, Leicestershire, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
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| Place | Peckleton Common |
| Traditional County | Leicestershire |
| District / Borough | Hinckley and Bosworth |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.618451 |
| Longitude | -1.292268 |
| Place Type | Other Settlement |
Peckleton Common remains a quiet stretch of Leicestershire land, defined by its open horizons and the steady, unadorned character of the English countryside. It lies 3.1 miles north-north-east of Earl Shilton (from Earl Shilton: bearing 18°T, OS grid SK 480 025), and is situated south of Desford village. The light here falls with a particular clarity, catching the frost on winter hedgerows and illuminating the flat, unassuming fields that define the local topography. Only a short distance to the north-north-west, the exotic calls of the Tropical Birdland attraction offer a jarring, vibrant contrast to the muted, agricultural stillness that predominates elsewhere. Beneath the soil, the earth retains a damp, heavy quality, typical of the wider region’s clay-rich foundations. A traveller might notice that the silence is rarely absolute, punctuated instead by the distant, rhythmic hum of rural machinery or the sudden flight of birds moving between the copses. Not far from the periphery, the delicate ecological balance of the Botcheston Bog Sssi preserves a fragile, marshy remnant of a landscape that has otherwise been shaped by centuries of systematic cultivation. Peckleton Common endures as a place where the passage of time is measured more by the changing harvest than by the restless noise of modernity.
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Explore Peckleton Common, 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: 52.618451, -1.292268. 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. |