Traditional county: Somerset · Region: South West
Explore Athelney, Somerset with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Athelney 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 | Athelney |
| Traditional County | Somerset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.056929 |
| Longitude | -2.932787 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Athelney rises as a singular, low-slung prominence above the damp, verdant expanse of the Somerset Levels. It lies 4.4 miles east-south-east of North Petherton (from North Petherton: bearing 123°T, OS grid ST 347 290), and is situated east of East Lyng village. The landscape here retains the memory of water, where the horizon stretches wide and the sky exerts a heavy, luminous pressure upon the fields. Upon the gentle rise of Athelney Hill, the ground carries the ghost of an ancient monastic silence, marking the site where a royal abbey once commanded the marshy reaches. King Alfred’s Monument punctuates the skyline, a stone sentinel observing the quiet transformation of the silt and peat below. Athelney remains defined by this isolation, caught between the slow, dark currents of the River Tone and the reclaimed flatness of the surrounding moors. The light often catches the reeds with a silvered intensity, lending the air a clarity that feels sharpened by centuries of wind and winter flood. Walking these paths, one encounters a geography that refuses to be tamed, where the earth remains as fluid and restless as the history buried beneath the sod.
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Explore Athelney, Somerset, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.056929, -2.932787. 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. |