Newtown Wiltshire Map

About Newtown

Newtown exhales a quietude, a place where the chalk downs begin to soften their angles. It lies 7.9 km north-east of Shaftesbury (from Shaftesbury: bearing 41°T, OS grid ST 916 289), and is situated north-west of Wardour village. The air here carries the scent of damp earth after rain, a subtle perfume that clings to the low stone walls. Old farm tracks, worn smooth by generations of passage, snake across fields that unfurl like rumpled velvet under a sky that can shift from the palest grey to a startling, luminous blue. The church spire, a slender sentinel, pierces the horizon, a constant, silent witness to the slow turning of the seasons. Here, the landscape itself feels like a story, whispered in the rustle of hedgerows and the murmur of the occasional, unseen stream.

About This Newtown Map Page

Explore Newtown, Wiltshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.060258, -2.120810. 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.