Traditional county: West Midlands · District / Borough: Sandwell · Region: West Midlands
Explore The Knowle, West Midlands with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the The Knowle 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 | The Knowle |
| Traditional County | West Midlands |
| District / Borough | Sandwell |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.488074 |
| Longitude | -2.059497 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
The Knowle unfolds as a quiet corner of the West Midlands, a place where the familiar geometry of suburban streets meets the lingering whispers of industry. It lies 1.1 km west-north-west of Rowley Regis (from Rowley Regis: bearing 294°T, OS grid SO 960 877). The houses here, a mixture of brick and rendered facades, stand in rows that seem to hold their breath, their gardens often a riot of carefully tended blooms under the vast, indifferent sky. The light, when it breaks through the often-grey heavens, can catch the edges of rooftops with a brief, startling brilliance, illuminating the everyday in unexpected ways. Though traces of its industrial past are now softened by time and the encroaching green, a certain stoic resilience still seems to permeate the very air of The Knowle.
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Explore The Knowle, West Midlands, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 52.488074, -2.059497. 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. |