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High Melton South Yorkshire Map

Traditional county: South Yorkshire · District / Borough: Doncaster · Region: Yorkshire and the Humber

Explore High Melton, South Yorkshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the High Melton 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.

This page also offers OS MAPS — Ordnance Survey Outdoor mapping and the OS Explorer 1:25 000 sheets — plus a labelled National Grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid reference readout. See How to Use This Map below. You will find live weather, local and world news further down the page.

Interactive Map of High Melton, South Yorkshire

How to Use This High Melton, South Yorkshire Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for High Melton, South Yorkshire, 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.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

Drag the map to pan to any area of South Yorkshire or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of High Melton and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.

OS MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows OS Outdoor mapping — contours, footpaths, bridleways and access land. Explorer 1:25k shows the OS Explorer sheets themselves: the orange-covered 1:25 000 maps walkers, fell runners and mountain rescue teams use, with field boundaries, rights of way and open access land. The search box finds any British town, village or landmark by name, so you are not limited to High Melton.

Reading the map like a paper Explorer sheet. Click Grid to overlay the OS National Grid, labelled along the edges exactly as a printed sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference such as NY 266 234 by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as an OS National Grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what mountain rescue and the coastguard work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need mobile coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your grid reference stays correct even where the map itself cannot load, which in the Lakes, the Dales and the Highlands is often exactly where you need it.

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PlaceHigh Melton
Traditional CountySouth Yorkshire
District / BoroughDoncaster
RegionYorkshire and the Humber
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Latitude53.511790
Longitude-1.234620
Place TypeVillage

About High Melton

High Melton commands a quiet prominence atop the limestone ridge that rises above the meandering path of the River Don. It lies 2.1 miles north of Conisbrough (from Conisbrough: bearing 354°T, OS grid SE 508 019), and is situated north-north-west of Cadeby village. The light here seems to catch the edges of the stone walls with a particular, pale clarity, reflecting the geological character of the surrounding escarpments. To the south-west, the still surface of Bath Pond acts as a dark mirror to the overhanging boughs, marking a transition from the elevated fields to the lower, marshy reaches of the valley. Ancient shadows linger near the Icehouse 720M South East Of Bath House Farm, a silent structure that holds the chill of previous centuries against the warmth of the modern sun. High Melton preserves a sense of solitude, its lanes bordered by hedgerows that thicken as they descend toward the water. The landscape retains the quiet gravity of a place where history is measured in the shifting patterns of the soil and the slow turn of the seasons.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Bath Pond (Lake / Reservoir) — 0.3 mi, 258° WSW
  • Icehouse 720M South East Of Bath House Farm (Scheduled Monument) — 0.3 mi, 176° S
  • Wildthorpe Medieval Settlement 680M South Of Leylands Farm (Scheduled Monument) — 0.5 mi, 155° SSE · 2 ha
  • Denaby Ings Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 0.8 mi, 213° SSW · 25 ha
  • River Dearne (old Course) (River) — 0.9 mi, 245° WSW
  • St Helen's Spring (River) — 1.1 mi, 273° W
  • Site Of St Helen'S Chapel (Scheduled Monument) — 1.1 mi, 317° NW
  • Cadeby Quarry Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 1.4 mi, 136° SE · 96 ha
  • Cadeby Main Colliery Memory Tree (Public Artwork) — 1.5 mi, 199° SSW
  • North Cliff Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 1.7 mi, 182° S
  • Windgate Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 1.8 mi, 159° SSE
  • Castle Hills Park (Park) — 1.9 mi, 228° SW
  • Knapton Gardens (Park) — 1.9 mi, 241° WSW
  • Sprotbrough Cut (Lake / Reservoir) — 1.9 mi, 098° E
  • Conisbrough Castle (Castle) — 1.9 mi, 170° S
  • Mexborough New Cut (Lake / Reservoir) — 2.1 mi, 227° SW
  • Long Plantation (Forest / Woodland) — 2.3 mi, 069° ENE
  • Hickleton Hall (Historic Park or Garden) — 2.3 mi, 318° NW · 76 ha
  • Pegdale (Valley) — 2.6 mi, 001° N
  • WW2 Anti Aircraft Battery (Historic Ruins) — 2.8 mi, 276° W
  • Ashworth Barracks Victoria Cross Museum (Museum) — 2.9 mi, 109° ESE
  • Brodsworth Hall (Historic Park or Garden (Grade II*)) — 3.0 mi, 002° N · 102 ha
  • Brodsworth Hall and Gardens (Attraction) — 3.2 mi, 358° N
  • Wadworth Wood (Forest / Woodland) — 4.1 mi, 131° SE
  • Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry Museum (Museum) — 4.3 mi, 082° E
  • Doncaster Little Theatre (Theatre) — 4.4 mi, 079° E
  • Bolton Ings (Wetland) — 4.5 mi, 275° W
  • The Ruddle Mill (Historic Ruins) — 5.0 mi, 158° SSE
  • South Yorkshire Air Museum (Museum) — 5.1 mi, 088° E
  • Little John's Well (Monument) — 5.6 mi, 354° N

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About This High Melton Map Page

Explore High Melton, South Yorkshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 53.511790, -1.234620. 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.

Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any British town, village or landmark by name; offers OS Outdoor and the OS Explorer 1:25 000 sheets as base layers; overlays a labelled OS National Grid so the map can be read like a printed Explorer sheet; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as an OS National Grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require mobile coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the grid reference remains correct even where the map cannot load.

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 builtOctober 2026
Location dataOS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; OS Outdoor and OS Explorer 1:25 000 via the OS Maps API — contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights; magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
County dataTraditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography.
CoordinatesWGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data.