Mop End emerges from the Chiltern landscape as a quiet collection of dwellings defined by the high, chalky plateau of Buckinghamshire. It lies 2.6 miles west-south-west of Amersham (from Amersham: bearing 252°T, OS grid SU 924 971), and is situated north of Penn Street village. The light here has a sharp, pale quality, filtering through the dense canopy of nearby Penn Wood to catch the flint walls of isolated farmsteads. Mop End sits at a crossroads of ancient tracks, where the earth gives way to the deep, silent geometry of the surrounding beech hangers. To the east, the vast historical expanse of Shardeloes stretches out, its managed slopes offering a formal contrast to the unkempt, tangled wildness of the local hedgerows. A sense of deliberate seclusion persists in the architecture, which prefers the privacy of brick and timber over the ostentation of more travelled roads. Even the wind seems to lose its momentum when crossing these fields, leaving the stillness to settle heavily upon the rooftops. Life in Mop End moves with the slow, seasonal pulse of the soil, indifferent to the encroaching bustle of the nearby commuter towns.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mop End, Buckinghamshire, 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 Mop End includes coordinates 51.665342, -0.665243, in the county of Buckinghamshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Mop End is available on the Mop End map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Buckinghamshire 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.