Daresbury holds the quiet weight of literary history within its Cheshire boundaries, marking the birthplace of Lewis Carroll. It lies 3.9 miles east of Runcorn (from Runcorn: bearing 98°T, OS grid SJ 576 820), and is situated north-north-east of Preston on the Hill village. The landscape here rises gently toward the slopes of Keckwick Hill, where the light catches the morning dew in long, silvered streaks across the pasture. Daresbury honours its most famous son through the dedicated Lewis Carroll Centre, which stands as a silent sentinel of imagination amidst the rural stillness. Beyond the immediate reach of the dwellings, the Red Brow Cutting Sssi exposes the ancient, layered secrets of the earth in a jagged, earthen scar. The wind carries a faint, persistent hum from the open fields, where the sky seems to stretch wider than the horizon should allow. History lingers in the local soil, a constant companion to those who walk the paths where childhood fancies were first ignited.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Daresbury, 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 Daresbury includes coordinates 53.334092, -2.637883, 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 Daresbury is available on the Daresbury 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.