Six Mile Bottom, Cambridgeshire Weather
About Six Mile Bottom, Cambridgeshire
Six Mile Bottom draws its name from the measured distance to the Newmarket racecourses, echoing a history tied to the movement of horses across these chalky plains. It lies 5.7 miles south-west of Newmarket (from Newmarket: bearing 227°T, OS grid TL 578 569), and is situated east-south-east of Great Wilbraham village. The landscape here opens into wide, arable expanses where the pale soil seems to catch and hold the low autumn sun. To the north, the ancient rise of Allington Hill watches over the fields, its slopes marking a quiet transition between the flat horizon and the sky. Nearby, the King’s Belt provides a dense, dark contrast of woodland, where the wind stirs the leaves into a restless, hushed percussion. Six Mile Bottom maintains an unpretentious character, defined more by the passage of traffic along the A11 than by the bustle of a traditional market square. The air often carries the faint, sharp scent of turned earth, a reminder of the generations who have worked the surrounding chalky ridges. Through the changing seasons, the light across the open paddocks remains clear and uncompromising, casting long shadows that stretch toward the horizon.
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About This Six Mile Bottom, Cambridgeshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Six Mile Bottom, 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 village. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Six Mile Bottom includes coordinates 52.18781, 0.307656, 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 Six Mile Bottom is available on the Six Mile Bottom 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.