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Short Heath West Midlands Map

(Suburban Area)

Traditional county: West Midlands · District / Borough: Walsall · Region: West Midlands

Explore Short Heath, West Midlands with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Short Heath 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.

Interactive Map of Short Heath, West Midlands

How to Use This Short Heath, West Midlands Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Short Heath, West Midlands, 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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PlaceShort Heath
Traditional CountyWest Midlands
District / BoroughWalsall
RegionWest Midlands
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
Latitude52.605725
Longitude-2.037050
Place TypeSuburban Area

About Short Heath

Short Heath manifests as a quiet confluence of suburban streets, defined by the persistent memory of its industrial hearths and the lingering reach of the Black Country’s coal-stained legacy. It lies 1.6 miles west-south-west of Bloxwich (from Bloxwich: bearing 241°T, OS grid SJ 975 008). The light here often catches the brickwork of Victorian terraces, casting long, austere shadows that suggest a permanence beyond the transient hum of modern traffic. Residents find a meditative respite at the edge of the horizon, where the verdant expanse of Rough Wood Country Park offers an ancient, tangled silence that contrasts sharply with the nearby arterial roads. This terrain, marked by the subsidence of old mine workings, now cradles a landscape that has softened into a mosaic of scrubland and reclaimed greenery. A short distance away, the still, reflective surface of Sneyd Reservoir acts as a dark mirror to the sky, holding the stillness of the afternoon in its quiet, man-made basin. Short Heath remains a place where the domesticity of twentieth-century housing estates meets the stubborn, unyielding traces of a geological and extractive past. Every garden fence and pavement edge speaks to the gradual reclamation of the land, as nature slowly reasserts its quiet authority over the remnants of heavy industry.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Rough Wood Country Park (Park) — 0.7 mi, 069° ENE
  • Sneyd Reservoir (Lake / Reservoir) — 1.0 mi, 025° NNE
  • Bentley Cairn (Public Artwork) — 1.3 mi, 150° SSE
  • Elmore Green (Park) — 1.5 mi, 063° ENE
  • Pouk Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 1.5 mi, 133° SE
  • Sneyd Brook (River) — 1.5 mi, 115° ESE
  • Cross In All Saints Churchyard (Scheduled Monument) — 1.5 mi, 067° ENE
  • Moat House Moated Site (Scheduled Monument) — 1.8 mi, 314° NW
  • Willenhall Lock Museum (Museum) — 1.8 mi, 211° SSW
  • Moated Mound (Historic Ruins) — 1.9 mi, 314° NW
  • Cineworld Bentley Bridge (Cinema) — 2.4 mi, 255° WSW
  • The Leather Museum (Museum) — 2.5 mi, 117° ESE
  • Bilston Castle Mound (Historic Ruins) — 2.5 mi, 220° SW
  • The E.M. Flint Art Gallery (Museum) — 2.8 mi, 119° ESE
  • Bushbury Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 3.0 mi, 288° WNW
  • Hatherton Lake (Lake / Reservoir) — 3.0 mi, 113° ESE
  • Walsall Memorial Garden (Historic Park or Garden) — 3.0 mi, 123° ESE · 2 ha
  • Bundy clock (Monument) — 3.0 mi, 110° ESE
  • Bliston Craft Gallery and Library (Museum) — 3.0 mi, 209° SSW
  • Lady Pool (Lake / Reservoir) — 3.1 mi, 098° E
  • The Robin (Theatre) — 3.1 mi, 211° SSW
  • Hlaew 12M North West Of Rushall Hall (Scheduled Monument) — 3.2 mi, 101° ESE
  • Fishley Church (Monument) — 3.2 mi, 041° NE
  • Ford Brook (River) — 3.3 mi, 074° ENE
  • Moseley Old Hall (Attraction) — 3.5 mi, 309° NW
  • Finger post (Attraction) — 3.6 mi, 055° NE
  • Daw End Railway Cutting Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 3.7 mi, 095° E · 8 ha
  • The Grange Playhouse (Theatre) — 3.7 mi, 116° ESE
  • The Lighthouse Cinema (Cinema) — 3.8 mi, 251° WSW
  • Wednesbury Museum & Art Gallery (Museum) — 3.9 mi, 171° S

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About This Short Heath Map Page

Explore Short Heath, West Midlands, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 52.605725, -2.037050. 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 builtSeptember 2026
Location dataOS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0.
County dataTraditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography.
CoordinatesWGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data.