Barnton, Cheshire Weather
About Barnton, Cheshire
Barnton commands a high ridge overlooking the winding veins of Cheshire’s industrial waterways. It lies 1.7 miles west-north-west of Northwich (from Northwich: bearing 294°T, OS grid SJ 634 749), and is situated east-south-east of Little Leigh village. The horizon here is defined by the slow, deliberate movement of canal craft navigating the nearby Anderton Boat Lift, a monumental structure of iron that bridges the divide between river and canal. Below the crest of the hill, the waters of Barnton Cut hold a stillness that mirrors the grey, shifting clouds of the North West. Residents look out across the valley where the earth was once hollowed by salt extraction, leaving a landscape that remembers the heavy toil of the past. Beyond the houses, the terrain dips toward the verdant silence of Gunners Clough, where the air grows damp and cool beneath the canopy. Barnton maintains a character forged by this interplay of deep-cut geology and the engineered ambition of the Victorian age. Every brick and path in Barnton holds the patient gravity of a place that grew alongside the rising and falling of the river’s trade.
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Live animated radar for Barnton and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Barnton, Cheshire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Barnton, Cheshire, 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. Coastal tide gauge readings are sourced from the Environment Agency National Tide Gauge Network in near real-time (15-minute updates), with marine wave and sea surface temperature data from the Open-Meteo Marine API. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Barnton includes coordinates 53.270505, -2.549278, in the county of Cheshire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Barnton is available on the Barnton map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Cheshire 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.