Traditional county: Shropshire · Region: West Midlands
Explore Prees, Shropshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Prees 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 | Prees |
| Traditional County | Shropshire |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.897518 |
| Longitude | -2.665433 |
| Place Type | Village |
Prees holds its own quiet corner of Shropshire, a place where the land itself seems to breathe a gentle, earthy sigh. It lies 6.1 km north-east of Wem (from Wem: bearing 40°T, OS grid SJ 553 335), and is situated north-north-west of Prees Green village. The village’s modest church, St. Chad’s, offers a sturdy anchor to the landscape, its stone weathered by countless seasons, a silent witness to the passing years. Fields of barley, rippling like a golden sea under the afternoon sun, stretch towards the horizon, their gentle undulations a familiar sight to those who call Prees home. The air here often carries the faint scent of damp earth and distant woodsmoke, a comforting perfume of rural life. Even the occasional rumble of a passing train, heading towards the wider world, serves only to accentuate the prevailing stillness.
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Explore Prees, 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: 52.897518, -2.665433. 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. |