Traditional county: South Yorkshire · District / Borough: Rotherham · Region: Yorkshire and the Humber
Explore Upper Whiston, South Yorkshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Upper Whiston 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 | Upper Whiston |
| Traditional County | South Yorkshire |
| District / Borough | Rotherham |
| Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.395203 |
| Longitude | -1.310807 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Upper Whiston emerges from the South Yorkshire landscape as a quiet collection of stone and slate held firmly against the slow roll of the earth. It lies 3.0 miles south-east of Rotherham (from Rotherham: bearing 144°T, OS grid SK 459 889), and is situated north-north-west of Ulley village. The light here often feels heavy and grey, clinging to the dry-stone walls that divide the fields with a singular, stubborn persistence. To the south, the water at Ulley Reservoir captures the sky in a bright, polished mirror, offering a cool relief to the warmth of the summer fields. Farmers have long worked these slopes, turning the stubborn soil while the distant murmur of Rotherham’s industrial pulse remains a mere whisper on the wind. Upper Whiston maintains a solitude that feels entirely its own, untouched by the frantic pace of the modern thoroughfares that skirt its boundaries. The nearby waters of Whiston Brook trace a serpentine path through the lower ground, carving out a shallow channel that has witnessed the slow passage of generations. Here, the horizon is defined by the steady, grounded presence of the land itself, where the seasons mark time more clearly than any clock.
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Explore Upper Whiston, 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: 53.395203, -1.310807. 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. |