Great Warford keeps a steady, quiet watch over the low-lying Cheshire plains where the horizon dissolves into a soft, grey haze. It lies 3.1 miles south-west of Wilmslow (from Wilmslow: bearing 216°T, OS grid SJ 816 769), and is situated north-north-east of Chelford village. Water defines the edges of the local geography, with Dog Hole Brook tracing a path just 0.3 miles to the east-south-east, its current insistent against the mud and reeds. Further down the slope, the landscape dips toward the quiet, damp depression of Peckmill Bottoms, where the air holds the chill of the earth long after the morning sun has risen. Great Warford retains a distinct sense of seclusion, far removed from the frantic pace of the wider county. The land here is heavy with agricultural memory, marked by hedgerows that have seen decades of slow, seasonal transformation. Beyond the immediate fields, the terrain remains unhurried, offering a landscape that yields only to the persistence of the rain and the turning of the plough.
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Live animated radar for Great Warford and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Great Warford, 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 Great Warford includes coordinates 53.289545, -2.276248, 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 Great Warford is available on the Great Warford 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.