(Suburban Area near Henstridge)
Traditional county: Somerset · Region: South West
Explore Towns End, Somerset with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Towns End 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 | Towns End |
| Traditional County | Somerset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 50.973891 |
| Longitude | -2.387766 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
Towns End breathes a quiet, unassuming presence upon the Somerset landscape. It lies 1.7 km north-north-west of Stalbridge (from Stalbridge: bearing 338°T, OS grid ST 728 194), and is situated south-east of Henstridge village. The land around Towns End rolls with the gentle, persistent curves of Dorset's chalk downland, a soft green velvet under a sky that often holds the bruised, luminous quality of an approaching rain shower. Fields, stitched together by hedgerows that seem to have grown from the very marrow of the earth, stretch towards the horizon, their boundaries softened by the passage of seasons. A palpable sense of quiet industry, perhaps echoing generations of agricultural work, seems to settle over Towns End, a stillness broken only by the murmur of wind through the trees and the distant bleating of sheep.
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Explore Towns End, 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: 50.973891, -2.387766. 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. |