Traditional county: Shropshire · Region: West Midlands
Explore The Wood, Shropshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the The Wood 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 | The Wood |
| Traditional County | Shropshire |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.790876 |
| Longitude | -3.029998 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
The Wood, a quiet corner of Shropshire, breathes a gentle existence. It lies 7.9 km south-south-east of Croesoswallt (from Croesoswallt: bearing 168°T, OS grid SJ 306 219), and is situated north-east of Maesbrook village. The land here unfolds with a subtle, rolling grace, the fields often a patchwork of greens and golds under a sky that can shift from cerulean to a bruised, contemplative grey. Few grand pronouncements are made by the architecture of The Wood; rather, it speaks in the quiet hum of daily life, the occasional clatter from a farmyard, and the way sunlight catches the weathered brick of older cottages. There's a sense, too, of the ancient earth beneath, a grounding presence that seems to inform the very pace of things.
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Explore The Wood, 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: 52.790876, -3.029998. 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. |