Traditional county: West Sussex · District / Borough: Chichester · Region: South East
Explore Mackerel's Common, West Sussex with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Mackerel's Common 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 | Mackerel's Common |
| Traditional County | West Sussex |
| District / Borough | Chichester |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.041801 |
| Longitude | -0.551792 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Mackerel's Common, a quiet corner of West Sussex, breathes the scent of damp earth and distant hedgerows. It lies 7.4 km north-north-east of Petworth (from Petworth: bearing 32°T, OS grid TQ 016 279), and is situated north of Kirdford village. The landscape around Mackerel's Common unfolds with a gentle, rolling character, where fields of arable crops meet the darker swathes of ancient woodland. Sunlight, when it breaks through the often-grey skies, casts long, soft shadows that give the scattered farmsteads and cottages an almost timeless quality. The air here carries the faint hum of agricultural machinery during harvest, a sound that blends into the natural chorus of birdsong and the rustle of leaves. Mackerel's Common is a place where the land itself seems to hold a quiet narrative, a story told in the subtle shifts of terrain and the persistent growth of ancient trees.
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Explore Mackerel's Common, West Sussex, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.041801, -0.551792. 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. |