Traditional county: Shropshire · Unitary authority: Telford and Wrekin · Region: West Midlands
Explore Great Bolas, Shropshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Great Bolas 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 | Great Bolas |
| Traditional County | Shropshire |
| Unitary Authority | Telford and Wrekin |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.790139 |
| Longitude | -2.521318 |
| Place Type | Village |
Great Bolas, a quiet corner of Shropshire, offers a gentle unfolding of the land. It lies 9.9 km west-north-west of Newport (from Newport: bearing 284°T, OS grid SJ 649 215), and is situated east-north-east of Cold Hatton Heath village. Here, the fields, often a rich, dark loam, seem to hold the memory of generations of quiet cultivation, their boundaries softened by hedgerows that whisper with unseen birdlife. The air itself can carry a certain clarity, a light that falls with a particular, almost luminous quality across the modest dwellings and the surrounding arable land. The pace of life in Great Bolas is measured, dictated more by the slow turning of the seasons and the needs of the soil than by the clamour of distant cities. It is a place where the horizon feels close, and the sky, when it clears, stretches out in an expanse of boundless blue, a comforting constant above the gentle undulations of the countryside.
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Explore Great Bolas, Shropshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 52.790139, -2.521318. 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. |