Great Raveley emerges from the flat, expansive horizon of the Cambridgeshire clay as a collection of quiet lanes and historic farmsteads. It lies 3.2 miles south-west of Ramsey (from Ramsey: bearing 224°T, OS grid TL 252 812), and is situated south-south-west of Upwood village. The light here hangs heavy and pale, catching the moisture that rises from the damp earth to turn the late afternoon into a study of silver and grey. Beyond the clusters of houses, the land stretches out toward the ancient, moss-covered earthworks of the Manor of Moyne, where the shadows of long-vanished moats deepen as the sun wanes. To the north, the protected grasses of Upwood Meadows SSSI sway in the wind, a remnant of a wilder landscape that once dominated this low-lying expanse. The persistent, quiet hum of the countryside is occasionally broken by the distant movement of water through the nearby drainage channels, a reminder of the constant struggle to keep the fields from returning to the bog. Great Raveley retains a stoic, unadorned character, built upon a foundation of agricultural endurance that has persisted through centuries of changing harvests. It remains a place where the sky feels vast and imposing, dwarfing the low-slung architecture and anchoring the observer to the cold, dark soil.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Great Raveley, Cambridgeshire, 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. Soil temperature, soil moisture and evapotranspiration data are provided for agricultural planning in this hamlet. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Great Raveley includes coordinates 52.415233, -0.159399, in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Great Raveley is available on the Great Raveley map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Cambridgeshire 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.