Colnbrook retains a lingering sense of its past as a vital coaching stop on the road between London and the West. It lies 3.3 miles east-south-east of Slough (from Slough: bearing 121°T, OS grid TQ 023 771), and is situated west-north-west of Poyle village. The low-lying land here drinks deeply from the moisture of the surrounding waterways, where the Poyle Channel quietly marks the boundary of the landscape. Near the heart of the parish, the Colnbrook Museum preserves the small, domestic details of a life once governed by the rhythms of the passing carriage trade. The air carries a distinct heaviness, tempered by the presence of the Eric Mortimer Rayner Memorial Lakes, which mirror the shifting grey and silver of the English sky. Timber-framed buildings lean toward the narrow streets, their weathered beams appearing to hold the weight of many centuries in silent, stoic patience. The horizon is punctuated by the vast, artificial geometry of the Queen Mother Reservoir, a stark contrast to the verdant, damp meadows that define the local terrain. Colnbrook remains a place where the modern world presses close, yet the water and the earth maintain a stubborn, quiet identity of their own.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Colnbrook, Berkshire, England, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, real-time aviation weather (METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport), precipitation radar and Meteosat satellite imagery. Public safety alerts are sourced from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS), covering wind, rain, snow, ice, fog, thunderstorm and extreme heat warnings. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Colnbrook includes coordinates 51.484448, -0.528107, in the county of Berkshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Colnbrook is available on the Colnbrook map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Berkshire weather hub.
Weather data is sourced from the Met Office and the open-source Open-Meteo API, whose ensemble includes the Met Office UKMO model. Severe weather warnings come from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS). River level and tidal data are sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring and National Tide Gauge Network APIs. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov, with a modelled estimate shown where no reporting station is in range. Radar is provided by RainViewer and satellite imagery by EUMETSAT. All data updates automatically on every page visit.