Traditional county: Devon · District / Borough: West Devon · Region: South West
Explore Northlew, Devon with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Northlew 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Northlew, Devon, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
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| Place | Northlew |
| Traditional County | Devon |
| District / Borough | West Devon |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 50.771539 |
| Longitude | -4.126324 |
| Place Type | Village |
Northlew guards a quiet ridge of the Devon landscape, where the air holds the thin, sharp clarity of the Atlantic winds. It lies 5.8 miles west-north-west of Okehampton (from Okehampton: bearing 293°T, OS grid SX 501 990), and is situated south-south-east of Highampton village. Time seems to gather around the ancient stones of the Village Cross, which waits patiently just forty metres from the church, marking a point where the local story began to solidify. Beyond the main thoroughfare, the land falls away toward the West Lew, a watercourse that carves a silver vein through the heavy clay of the fields. The light here has a way of lingering, catching the moss on old walls and turning the damp earth into a dark, rich mirror. To the west, the protected expanse of the Whiddon Moor, Luckroft and Odham Marshes SSSI draws the horizon into a muted tangle of reed and rush. Northlew retains a stubborn autonomy, resisting the erosion of its character by the slow, persistent pulse of the seasons. Beneath the grey slate roofs, the architecture speaks of a practical endurance that has outlasted the generations who first cleared the gorse.
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Explore Northlew, Devon, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 50.771539, -4.126324. 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 | September 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. |