Traditional county: Essex · District / Borough: Tendring · Region: Eastern
Explore Frating, Essex with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Frating 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.
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| Place | Frating |
| Traditional County | Essex |
| District / Borough | Tendring |
| Region | Eastern |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.862334 |
| Longitude | 1.018618 |
| Place Type | Village |
Frating commands a quiet corner of the Tendring landscape where the horizon remains wide and unencumbered by the weight of modern sprawl. It lies 2.6 miles east of Wivenhoe (from Wivenhoe: bearing 81°T, OS grid TM 079 225), and is situated west-south-west of Frating Green village. The light here has a singular, brittle clarity that catches the edges of the nearby Beth Chatto Gardens, illuminating the transition from manicured perennial beds to the wilder agricultural fields beyond. A traveller passing through Frating might notice how the air thins as one approaches the rising prominence of Tenpenny Hill, which offers a vantage point over the low-lying stretches of the Essex plain. The local architecture speaks to a heritage defined by long-standing agrarian toil, where brick and timber have weathered the salt-laden winds blowing in from the nearby coast. Roads wind with a deliberate, slow-motion geometry, tracing the boundaries of fields that have been ploughed for centuries beneath an expansive, shifting sky. Frating retains a sense of seclusion that defies its proximity to more densely populated corridors, maintaining a stoic composure against the encroaching pace of the twenty-first century. One finds in the texture of the hedgerows and the stillness of the verges a quietude that feels almost archaic, as if the land itself were holding its breath against the changing seasons.
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Explore Frating, Essex, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 51.862334, 1.018618. 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. |