Traditional county: North Yorkshire · Region: Yorkshire and the Humber
Explore Colton, North Yorkshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Colton 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 Colton, North Yorkshire, 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 | Colton |
| Traditional County | North Yorkshire |
| Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.896685 |
| Longitude | -1.174343 |
| Place Type | Village |
Colton emerges from the flat, fertile plains of North Yorkshire as a quiet collection of dwellings defined by the patient pace of the seasons. It lies 3.7 miles east-north-east of Tadcaster (from Tadcaster: bearing 77°T, OS grid SE 543 448), and is situated south-south-east of Bilbrough village. Low ridges of earth rise modestly to the south, where Lick Hill breaks the horizon with a gentle, grass-covered swell. The light here often gathers in the hollows of the fields, turning the long shadows of late afternoon into pools of cool, grey ink. To the southwest, the earth holds the ghost of the past in the form of the Steeton Medieval Village, where moated sites and silent fishponds suggest a time when life moved to the slow pulse of the soil. Beyond these remnants, the land stretches out in a patchwork of hedgerows and fallow furrows that have long sustained the local economy of arable farming. Colton remains a place where the wind carries the scent of damp earth and distant woodsmoke, indifferent to the hurried progress of the wider world. The horizon remains wide and unobstructed, allowing the sky to assert its vast, changing presence over the rooftops.
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Explore Colton, North Yorkshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 53.896685, -1.174343. 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. |