Traditional county: Shropshire · Region: West Midlands
Explore Whixall, Shropshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Whixall 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.
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| Place | Whixall |
| Traditional County | Shropshire |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.905374 |
| Longitude | -2.720923 |
| Place Type | Other Settlement |
Whixall spreads its quiet reach across the flat, mossy plains of northern Shropshire where the horizon feels wide and unencumbered. It lies 3.4 miles north of Wem (from Wem: bearing 2°T, OS grid SJ 516 344), and is situated north-west of Quina Brook village. The land here holds the damp, dark memory of peat, a terrain defined by the ancient, expansive reach of Fenn's, Whixall & Bettisfield Mosses, where the air tastes of sphagnum and cold water. Paths meander past the quiet infrastructure of the Prees Branch Canal SSSI, a waterway that once carried the heavy burden of trade but now serves only the slow drift of dragonflies and the occasional heron. Whixall maintains a character shaped by this watery periphery, where the earth is soft and the sky seems to claim more than its fair share of the view. Light catches the edges of the mosses in the late afternoon, turning the bog pools into plates of burnished copper that shimmer against the darkening sedge. Life in Whixall moves with the deliberate pace of the seasons, indifferent to the hurried pulse of the modern world. Small holdings and dispersed farms anchor the place, grounding the inhabitants in a cycle of growth and harvest that has persisted for generations.
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Explore Whixall, 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: 52.905374, -2.720923. 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. |