Traditional county: Shropshire · Region: West Midlands
Explore Lea Cross, Shropshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Lea Cross 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 | Lea Cross |
| Traditional County | Shropshire |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.668929 |
| Longitude | -2.858307 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Lea Cross, a quiet English hamlet, breathes the soft air of Shropshire. It lies 8.3 km west-south-west of Shrewsbury (from Shrewsbury: bearing 238°T, OS grid SJ 420 082), and is situated north-north-west of Plealey village. The landscape around Lea Cross undulates with a gentle, almost imperceptible grace, where fields of grain catch the light in shifting patterns, their colours deepening from emerald to gold as the sun arcs overhead. Ancient hedgerows, thick with hawthorn and wild rose, trace invisible boundaries across the countryside, suggesting a long and quiet habitation. The very air here seems to carry a faint, earthy perfume, a testament to the surrounding agricultural lands.
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Explore Lea Cross, 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: 52.668929, -2.858307. 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. |