Belowda emerges from the Cornish interior as a cluster of stone dwellings defined by the sparse, windswept character of the surrounding plateau. It lies 3.5 miles east-south-east of St Columb Major (from St Columb Major: bearing 106°T, OS grid SW 967 618), and is situated north-west of Roche village. Sunlight here lacks the softness of the coast, instead washing the granite walls in a pale, clinical clarity that reveals the sharp edges of every dry-stone boundary. A mere half-mile to the north-east, Belowda Beacon rises as a weathered sentinel, its craggy silhouette holding the memory of ancient fires against the vast, shifting sky. The horizon is punctuated by the remnants of a deeper past, where the Three Bowl Barrows near Brynn Barton Cottage rest in the fields like forgotten, earthen secrets. Belowda maintains a quiet detachment from the busier thoroughfares, its lanes tracing the contours of a landscape shaped by centuries of agricultural toil and the slow, grinding influence of the elements. Air in the vicinity carries a faint, sharp scent of gorse and damp earth, a reminder that the wilder moors are never truly held at bay. Every structure in Belowda seems to lean slightly against the prevailing wind, acknowledging the persistent pressure of the Atlantic weather that sweeps across the peninsula.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Belowda, Cornwall, 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 Belowda includes coordinates 50.42089, -4.863171, in the county of Cornwall, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Belowda is available on the Belowda map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Cornwall 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.