Traditional county: Shropshire · Region: West Midlands
Explore Knowle Sands, Shropshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Knowle Sands 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 Knowle Sands, Shropshire, 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 | Knowle Sands |
| Traditional County | Shropshire |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.523246 |
| Longitude | -2.415644 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Knowle Sands emerges from the verdant Shropshire landscape as a quiet collection of dwellings defined by the slow, deliberate movement of the River Severn. It lies 0.9 miles south-south-east of Bridgnorth (from Bridgnorth: bearing 169°T, OS grid SO 718 917), and is situated east of Oldbury village. The water here holds a heavy, silty stillness, reflecting the grey skies that often hang low over the valley floor. Only a short distance away, the historic machinery of Daniels Mill continues to exert a ghostly pull on the landscape, its iron gears a silent reminder of the labour that once defined this reach of the river. The air at Knowle Sands carries a faint, damp scent of turned earth and reeds, particularly when the morning mist refuses to lift from the water’s edge. Travellers moving through the valley might catch the distant, lingering shadow of Panpudding Hill, a ringwork castle that watches over the approach to the higher ground of Bridgnorth. Knowle Sands remains a place of unadorned presence, where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the pace of life far more effectively than the ticking of a clock. The light here has a way of catching the river’s surface, turning the current into a ribbon of hammered pewter against the dark, encroaching banks.
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Explore Knowle Sands, 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: 52.523246, -2.415644. 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. |