Granite-hewn cottages gather around a wide, sloping green in Blisland, where the air tastes of salt-tossed moorland and ancient earth. It lies 4.2 miles north-north-east of Bodmin (from Bodmin: bearing 21°T, OS grid SX 099 732), and is situated south of St Breward village. A medieval wayside cross at Blisland stands as a silent witness to the centuries, its weathered stone grain smoothed by the persistent touch of Atlantic winds. Beyond the perimeter of the houses, the horizon tilts upward toward The Beacon, a rugged rise that holds the vast, shifting light of the Cornish sky in its grasp. The ground here feels thin and brittle, hinting at the deep, subterranean scars left by the nearby De Lank Quarries where industry once bit hard into the granite bones of the landscape. Blisland retains a distinctive character, defined by its departure from the standard enclosed village plan, favouring instead an open, airy expanse that pulls the surrounding hills into its daily life. Lichen-crusted walls map the boundaries of fields that have been laboured upon since the Bronze Age, as evidenced by the quiet, circular stone ghosts of the hut circle group and enclosure northeast of Carwen. Here, the silence is not an absence of sound but a heavy, rhythmic presence that anchors the spirit to the granite floor of the peninsula.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Blisland, 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 Blisland includes coordinates 50.528102, -4.683236, 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 Blisland is available on the Blisland 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.