Traditional county: Wiltshire · Region: South West
Explore Porton, Wiltshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Porton 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 | Porton |
| Traditional County | Wiltshire |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.128489 |
| Longitude | -1.732178 |
| Place Type | Village |
Porton, a quiet corner of Wiltshire, breathes a subtle, earthy scent of damp soil and distant chalk downs. It lies 5.9 km south-east of Amesbury (from Amesbury: bearing 145°T, OS grid SU 188 366), and is situated north of Gomeldon village. The landscape here, a gentle sweep of arable fields, catches the low sun with a muted, golden light that softens the edges of distant hedgerows. Ancient tracks, worn smooth by generations of passage, thread through the surrounding countryside, hinting at lives lived out under skies that shift from pearly grey to the deep indigo of twilight. The very air seems to hold a quiet stillness, broken only by the call of a curlew or the rustle of wind through the long grass.
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Explore Porton, 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: 51.128489, -1.732178. 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. |