Bolventor marks a lonely height upon the granite spine of Bodmin Moor, where the wind strips the air of all artifice. It lies 6.5 miles south-east of Camelford (from Camelford: bearing 131°T, OS grid SX 183 767), and is situated south-west of Trewint village. Dark clouds often bruise the horizon here, casting long, melancholic shadows across the gorse and the low-slung stone walls that define the perimeter of Bolventor. Travellers have long sought refuge at the Jamaica Inn's Daphne du Maurier & Smuggling Museum, a place that holds the hushed echoes of illicit trade and literary legend within its thick, protective masonry. Beyond the immediate reach of the road, the landscape rises toward the stony prominence of Catshole Tor, where the light turns thin and sharp against the grey sky. The earth here retains a wild, unyielding character, indifferent to the passage of seasons or the hurried transit of modern life. To the south, the deep waters of Dozmary Pool shimmer like a tarnished mirror, anchoring the mythology of the moor in a cold, impenetrable depth. This high country demands a certain fortitude, offering in return a vast, unfiltered silence that remains long after the traveller has departed.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Bolventor, 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 Bolventor includes coordinates 50.561919, -4.566554, 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 Bolventor is available on the Bolventor 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.