Traditional county: West Midlands · District / Borough: Sandwell · Region: West Midlands
Explore West Smethwick, West Midlands with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the West Smethwick 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 | West Smethwick |
| Traditional County | West Midlands |
| District / Borough | Sandwell |
| Region | West Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.499713 |
| Longitude | -1.990131 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
West Smethwick carries the quiet hum of its industrial past, a suburban echo within the Sandwell district. It lies 1.8 km west-north-west of Smethwick (from Smethwick: bearing 303°T, OS grid SP 007 890). The landscape here, a gentle undulation of residential streets and modest green spaces, often catches the afternoon sun in a way that softens the brickwork and lends a fleeting warmth to the air. Though no grand monuments mark its centre, the very arrangement of its roads, a practical grid born of growth, speaks to a community built for purpose. The proximity to the Black Country's larger industrial heartland has shaped West Smethwick, imbuing it with a grounded character, a sense of lives lived in honest work, where the distant clang of machinery might still, on a still day, drift on the breeze.
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Explore West Smethwick, 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: 52.499713, -1.990131. 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. |