Blowinghouse retains the rugged, unvarnished character of Cornwall’s industrial heartland, where the ghosts of deep-shaft mining still linger in the uneven contours of the earth. It lies 1.0 miles west-south-west of Redruth (from Redruth: bearing 253°T, OS grid SW 685 417), and is situated north-west of Carn Brea Village village. Granite outcrops define the skyline, punctuated by the stoic profile of Carn Brea Castle, which watches over the surrounding valleys with a singular, archaic gravity. The sunlight here often catches the mica in the soil, casting a faint, metallic shimmer across the lanes as the day wanes. Below the slopes, the ruins of the former Methodist Church offer a quiet sanctuary of lichen-covered stone, standing as a stark witness to the shifts in local faith and labour. Nearby, the waters of the House of Water mirror the shifting clouds, providing a calm, reflective depth to a landscape otherwise defined by its hard, mineral-rich past. Blowinghouse feels caught between the echoes of heavy machinery and the encroaching silence of the wild, gorse-strewn hills. This place holds a sharp, clear air that carries the scent of salt from the coast and the cooling damp of the inland mines.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Blowinghouse, 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 Blowinghouse includes coordinates 50.230112, -5.246571, 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 Blowinghouse is available on the Blowinghouse 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.