Traditional county: Suffolk · District / Borough: Babergh · Region: Eastern
Explore Hitcham, Suffolk with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Hitcham 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 | Hitcham |
| Traditional County | Suffolk |
| District / Borough | Babergh |
| Region | Eastern |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.125118 |
| Longitude | 0.897648 |
| Place Type | Village |
Hitcham, a quiet cluster of homes, finds its gentle place in the Suffolk landscape. It lies 9.8 km south-west of Stowmarket (from Stowmarket: bearing 224°T, OS grid TL 984 513), and is situated north-north-west of Bildeston village. The fields surrounding Hitcham, often a soft, muted green under the wide East Anglian sky, suggest a continuity of cultivation, a patient yielding to the seasons. The parish church, St. Mary's, stands as a quiet sentinel, its flint walls catching the pale sunlight and hinting at centuries of communal life. A sense of enduring peace seems to settle upon Hitcham, as if the very air remembers the quiet footsteps of generations past.
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Explore Hitcham, Suffolk, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 52.125118, 0.897648. 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. |