Traditional county: Staffordshire · District / Borough: Newcastle-under-Lyme · Region: West Midlands
Explore Hales, Staffordshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Hales 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Hales, Staffordshire, 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.
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| Place | Hales |
| Traditional County | Staffordshire |
| District / Borough | Newcastle-under-Lyme |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.902315 |
| Longitude | -2.427842 |
| Place Type | Village |
Hales reveals itself as a quiet spread of Staffordshire earth, defined by the slow, deliberate turn of the seasons across its fields. It lies 2.3 miles east of Market Drayton (from Market Drayton: bearing 93°T, OS grid SJ 713 339), and is situated north-north-west of Chipnall village. Ancient boundaries linger here, most notably where the earth remembers the Roman occupation at the site of Hales Roman Villa, a silent witness to a more industrious past. To the north, the landscape darkens with the memory of the Battle of Blore Heath 1459, where the terrain still holds the weight of a fractured kingdom. Hempmill Brook carves a thin, silver thread through the pastures, its waters moving with a persistent, cold clarity that drains the high ground. The light here often feels thin and pale, catching the ridges of the surrounding soil before vanishing behind the hedgerows. Hales remains a place of deep, terrestrial stillness, where the modern world seems to falter at the parish edge. Those who walk these paths find that Hales offers little more than the wind, the heavy clay, and the long, lingering shadows of the afternoon.
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Explore Hales, Staffordshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 52.902315, -2.427842. 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. |