Cuerdley Cross remains a quiet sentinel of the Cheshire plains, where the horizon stretches flat and wide under a pale, unblinking sky. It lies 2.1 miles east-north-east of Widnes (from Widnes: bearing 60°T, OS grid SJ 541 869), and is situated south-south-east of Bold Heath village. The landscape here is defined by a slow, deliberate gravity, pulling the eye toward the distant, shifting silts of Cuerdley Marsh. Beneath the surface of these fields, the ghosts of twentieth-century defensive efforts remain, marked by the silent, sunken concrete of the nearby anti-aircraft battery. A cold, industrial clarity often settles over the terrain, tracing the stark lines of old agricultural boundaries that have outlived their original purpose. Residents find a brief reprieve in the nearby Sunnybank Woodland Park, where the trees offer a muted, rhythmic shelter from the prevailing winds sweeping off the Mersey estuary. Cuerdley Cross persists as a place of low silhouettes and heavy earth, where the past is not a memory but a physical weight pressed firmly into the soil.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Cuerdley Cross, 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 Cuerdley Cross includes coordinates 53.377378, -2.69024, 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 Cuerdley Cross is available on the Cuerdley Cross 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.