(Hamlet near Lapley)
Traditional county: Staffordshire · District / Borough: South Staffordshire · Region: West Midlands
Explore Whiston, Staffordshire 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.
| Place | Whiston |
| Traditional County | Staffordshire |
| District / Borough | South Staffordshire |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.726868 |
| Longitude | -2.158142 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Whiston, a quiet corner of South Staffordshire, breathes a particular kind of English air. It lies 3.0 km west of Penkridge (from Penkridge: bearing 275°T, OS grid SJ 894 143), and is situated north-east of Lapley village. The fields around Whiston often hold a deep, rich green, especially after a spring rain, hinting at the fertile soil that has sustained generations. The lanes here are narrow, winding like forgotten thoughts, and the houses, though modest, seem to possess a solid, unpretentious grace, their brickwork warmed by the afternoon sun. You might catch the distant lowing of cattle, a sound that drifts across the landscape like a gentle, familiar sigh, grounding the small hamlet in its agricultural past. There's a certain stillness to Whiston, an understated beauty in its unassuming presence, a place where time seems to measure itself by the slow turning of the seasons rather than the frantic ticking of a clock.
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Explore Whiston, 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: 52.726868, -2.158142. 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. |