Traditional county: Shropshire · Region: West Midlands
Explore Polesgate, Shropshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Polesgate 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 | Polesgate |
| Traditional County | Shropshire |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.638773 |
| Longitude | -2.897676 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
Polesgate, a quiet pocket of Shropshire, offers a gentle invitation to linger. It lies 12.4 km south-west of Shrewsbury (from Shrewsbury: bearing 231°T, OS grid SJ 393 049), and is situated south-south-west of Pontesbury village. The landscape around Polesgate unfolds with a subtle, rolling grace, where ancient hedgerows trace their patient lines across fields that often catch the sun in a buttery light. Farming remains a quiet heartbeat here, the land yielding its bounty with a steady, unhurried rhythm, a testament to generations who have worked this soil. The air itself seems to carry a faint scent of damp earth and distant woodsmoke, a comforting perfume that settles over the small cluster of homes and gardens. Polesgate, though modest, holds a certain steadfast charm, a place where the passage of time feels measured not by clocks, but by the slow turning of the seasons and the enduring strength of the local stone.
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Explore Polesgate, 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: 52.638773, -2.897676. 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. |