Traditional county: Shropshire · Region: West Midlands
Explore Twitchen, Shropshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Twitchen 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 Twitchen, 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 | Twitchen |
| Traditional County | Shropshire |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.408549 |
| Longitude | -2.930598 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Twitchen marks a quiet fold in the Shropshire landscape, where the land rises in slow, deliberate swells that catch the low, honeyed light of late afternoon. It lies 4.6 miles west-south-west of Craven Arms (from Craven Arms: bearing 243°T, OS grid SO 367 793), and is situated south-south-west of Clunbury village. To the north-east, the slopes of Clunbury Hill rise with a spare, austere grace, casting long shadows that stretch toward the farmsteads below. A short distance to the west, the dense, tangled canopy of Purslow Wood holds the scent of damp earth and cooling bark, acting as a dark counterpoint to the open, wind-swept pastures. The presence of the rugged Hopton Castle Tower Keep, just south of Twitchen, serves as a stony reminder of a more turbulent past, its crumbling masonry softened now by encroaching lichen. Here, the rhythm of existence is dictated by the turning of the seasons and the shifting weather that rolls across the hills from the Welsh border. Twitchen remains a place of sparse, singular beauty, where the silence is broken only by the distant bleat of sheep or the sharp, sudden cry of a buzzard circling the thermals. Through the changing months, the fields around Twitchen retain a stubborn, ancient character that resists the encroaching pace of the modern world.
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Explore Twitchen, 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: 52.408549, -2.930598. 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. |