Traditional county: Leicestershire · District / Borough: Harborough · Region: East Midlands
Explore Illston on the Hill, Leicestershire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Illston on the Hill 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 Illston on the Hill, Leicestershire, 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 | Illston on the Hill |
| Traditional County | Leicestershire |
| District / Borough | Harborough |
| Region | East Midlands |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 52.587627 |
| Longitude | -0.956783 |
| Place Type | Village |
Illston on the Hill surveys its Leicestershire landscape with a quiet dignity, its stone cottages catching the low afternoon sun like embers. It lies 12.2 km north of Market Harborough (from Market Harborough: bearing 349°T, OS grid SP 707 993), and is situated south-east of Gaulby village. The gentle rise of the land here offers a sweeping panorama, a subtle theatre for the changing seasons, where the distant fields, a patchwork of greens and golds, seem to breathe in unison with the sky. The parish church, St. Andrew's, stands as a sentinel of weathered stone, its spire a slender finger pointing towards the heavens, a silent witness to centuries of village life. Even the air here seems to carry the faint scent of turned earth and distant hedgerows, a testament to the enduring agricultural heartbeat of Illston on the Hill. The village green, a modest expanse, offers a pause in the day's journey, a place where conversations might drift as easily as the clouds overhead.
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Explore Illston on the Hill, Leicestershire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 52.587627, -0.956783. 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 | August 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. |