Bodwen emerges from the granite-strewn landscape of Cornwall as a quiet collection of dwellings defined by the rugged character of the surrounding moorland. It lies 4.3 miles north-west of St Blazey (from St Blazey: bearing 326°T, OS grid SX 032 606), and is situated north-east of Bugle village. The air here holds a sharp, clean clarity, carrying the scent of damp earth and gorse across the uneven fields. A short distance to the north, the Medieval Wayside Cross at Lockengate stands as a silent sentinel, marking a route that has guided travellers through this windswept terrain for centuries. Beyond the immediate cluster of homes, the elevation rises toward the prominence of Castle Hill, where the ground bears the weight of ancient earthworks and forgotten fortifications. Bodwen remains tethered to this historic topography, where the light shifts rapidly across the open slopes to reveal shades of slate grey and deep, persistent green. To the west, the expansive reach of the Mid Cornwall Moors SSSI provides a vast, untamed horizon that hums with the life of rare flora and hardy wildlife. These high, exposed ridges catch the prevailing winds, ensuring that the atmosphere around Bodwen stays perpetually bracing and bright.
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Live animated radar for Bodwen and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Bodwen, 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 Bodwen includes coordinates 50.412812, -4.771141, 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 Bodwen is available on the Bodwen 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.