Traditional county: South Yorkshire · District / Borough: Rotherham · Region: Yorkshire and the Humber
Explore Whiston, South Yorkshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the 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 | Whiston |
| Traditional County | South Yorkshire |
| District / Borough | Rotherham |
| Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 53.405836 |
| Longitude | -1.326490 |
| Place Type | Village |
Whiston, a village with a quiet dignity, unfolds its story across the South Yorkshire landscape. It lies 3.3 km south-east of Rotherham (from Rotherham: bearing 146°T, OS grid SK 448 901), and is situated south-west of Brecks village. The gentle slope of the land here, where arable fields meet the encroaching suburbs, often catches the soft, diffused light of dawn, painting the distant chimneys with a pale gold. Its history is interwoven with the industrial pulse of the wider Rotherham area, though Whiston itself retains a sense of its agricultural roots, with remnants of older farmsteads hinting at a past where the land dictated the pace of life. The village green, a modest expanse of well-trodden grass, serves as a quiet focal point, a place where the everyday rhythms of its inhabitants play out beneath the wide, often cloud-strewn, Yorkshire sky.
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Explore 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: 53.405836, -1.326490. 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 | July 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. |