Red sandstone ridges rise to the east, casting long, bruised shadows over the fields that define the character of Nether Alderley. It lies 2.6 miles south of Wilmslow (from Wilmslow: bearing 185°T, OS grid SJ 843 769), and is situated south of Alderley Edge village. Ancient silence lingers around the weathered stone of the Cross at Nether Alderley, where the intersection of Welsh Row and Congleton Road marks a junction of centuries. The landscape here holds the ghost of industry, as the scarred earth of the nearby Wood Mine Cobalt Works quietly reclaims its hollows from the reach of iron and pickaxe. Light catches the surface of The Moat, a mirror of grey sky that anchors the damp, low-lying pastures against the encroaching woodland. St Mary’s Church stands as a sentinel of heavy masonry, its churchyard cross marking the slow, rhythmic accumulation of lives lived in the shadow of the escarpment. Nether Alderley retains a singular gravity, where the weight of the soil and the permanence of local geology dictate the pace of the passing seasons.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Nether Alderley, 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 Nether Alderley includes coordinates 53.289236, -2.236388, 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 Nether Alderley is available on the Nether Alderley 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.