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Willingham Suffolk Map

Traditional county: Suffolk · District / Borough: East Suffolk · Region: Eastern

Explore Willingham, Suffolk with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Willingham 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.

This page also offers OS MAPS — Ordnance Survey Outdoor mapping and the OS Explorer 1:25 000 sheets — plus a labelled National Grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid reference readout. See How to Use This Map below. You will find live weather, local and world news further down the page.

Interactive Map of Willingham, Suffolk

How to Use This Willingham, Suffolk Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Willingham, Suffolk, 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.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen for a larger view. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key on your keyboard, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

Drag the map to pan to any area of Suffolk or beyond. Switch to Satellite view to see high-resolution aerial photography of Willingham and surrounding areas, including streets, buildings, parks and waterways.

OS MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows OS Outdoor mapping — contours, footpaths, bridleways and access land. Explorer 1:25k shows the OS Explorer sheets themselves: the orange-covered 1:25 000 maps walkers, fell runners and mountain rescue teams use, with field boundaries, rights of way and open access land. The search box finds any British town, village or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Willingham.

Reading the map like a paper Explorer sheet. Click Grid to overlay the OS National Grid, labelled along the edges exactly as a printed sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference such as NY 266 234 by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as an OS National Grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — the grid reference being what mountain rescue and the coastguard work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need mobile coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your grid reference stays correct even where the map itself cannot load, which in the Lakes, the Dales and the Highlands is often exactly where you need it.

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PlaceWillingham
Traditional CountySuffolk
District / BoroughEast Suffolk
RegionEastern
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Latitude52.407663
Longitude1.580280
Place TypeVillage

About Willingham

Willingham marks a quiet point of transition where the flat, heavy clay of the Suffolk interior begins to yield to the subtle shifts of the coastal plain. It lies 3.6 miles south-south-east of Beccles (from Beccles: bearing 168°T, OS grid TM 436 848), and is situated north of Shadingfield village. The light here has a peculiar, washed-out clarity that catches the edges of the Shadingfield Willingham St Mary Village Sign, turning the paintwork into a flash of sudden, unearned brilliance against the roadside grass. Farmers have worked these fields for centuries, turning heavy soil that clings to the boot and demands a slow, deliberate pace of life. A short distance to the west, the Moated Site At Moat Farm remains a hidden, water-darkened rectangle, a silent reminder of medieval enclosures that once defined the local boundaries. The surrounding landscape carries a sense of profound, horizontal patience, where the horizon feels vast and the sky dominates the narrow lanes. Willingham exists less as a cluster of houses and more as a series of long, rhythmic views across open, furrowed earth. Small copses of trees break the monotony of the arable expanse, providing a sharp, dark contrast to the pale, shifting Suffolk clouds.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Shadingfield Willingham St Mary Village Sign (Public Artwork) — 0.1 mi, 319° NW
  • Moated Site At Moat Farm (Scheduled Monument) — 0.5 mi, 292° WNW
  • Moated Site And Associated Earthworks At Westend Farm (Scheduled Monument) — 0.6 mi, 293° WNW · 2 ha
  • Titsal Wood, Shadingfield Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 0.9 mi, 218° SW · 15 ha
  • Sotterley Hall Estate (Attraction) — 1.4 mi, 085° E
  • Sotterley Park Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 1.6 mi, 084° E · 123 ha
  • Jay's Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 1.9 mi, 062° ENE
  • Church Green (Park) — 2.2 mi, 159° SSE
  • Moat Yards Moated Site (Scheduled Monument) — 2.6 mi, 219° SW · 1 ha
  • Ellough Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 2.7 mi, 008° N
  • The Danger (River) — 2.9 mi, 215° SW
  • Beccles and District Museum (Museum) — 3.4 mi, 345° NNW
  • Little Common (Park) — 3.5 mi, 296° WNW
  • Barsham Beck (River) — 3.5 mi, 331° NNW
  • Beccles Public Hall and Theatre (Theatre) — 3.5 mi, 349° N
  • Spring Lake (Lake / Reservoir) — 3.6 mi, 007° N
  • Danby's Dyke (Lake / Reservoir) — 3.7 mi, 009° N
  • Railway Dyke (Lake / Reservoir) — 3.8 mi, 009° N
  • Barber's Marsh (Wetland) — 4.0 mi, 157° SSE
  • Beccles Marshes (Wetland) — 4.0 mi, 002° N
  • Frostenden Bottom (Valley) — 4.1 mi, 126° SE
  • Halesworth Airfield Museum (Museum) — 4.4 mi, 214° SSW
  • Frostenden Mound (Castle) — 4.5 mi, 131° SE
  • Henham (Historic Park or Garden) — 4.6 mi, 168° SSE · 324 ha
  • Africa Alive (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 5.0 mi, 086° E
  • Holton Windmill (Museum) — 5.1 mi, 207° SSW
  • Halesworth Museum (Museum) — 5.2 mi, 217° SW
  • Benacre (National Nature Reserve) — 5.3 mi, 115° ESE · 372 ha
  • Wang Marshes Viewing Platform (Viewpoint) — 5.3 mi, 159° SSE
  • Mettingham Castle College (Historic Ruins) — 5.3 mi, 299° WNW

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About This Willingham Map Page

Explore Willingham, 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: 52.407663, 1.580280. 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.

Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any British town, village or landmark by name; offers OS Outdoor and the OS Explorer 1:25 000 sheets as base layers; overlays a labelled OS National Grid so the map can be read like a printed Explorer sheet; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as an OS National Grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require mobile coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the grid reference remains correct even where the map cannot load.

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 builtOctober 2026
Location dataOS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; OS Outdoor and OS Explorer 1:25 000 via the OS Maps API — contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights; magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
County dataTraditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography.
CoordinatesWGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data.