Boswarthen, Cornwall Weather
About Boswarthen, Cornwall
Boswarthen emerges from the granite-strewn landscape of West Penwith as a collection of quiet dwellings framed by the wide, Atlantic-flecked horizon. It lies 2.6 miles north-west of Penzance (from Penzance: bearing 312°T, OS grid SW 441 331), and is situated north-west of Madron village. The air here carries a sharp, saline clarity, an atmospheric gift from the nearby West Penwith Moors and Downs SSSI that stretches out in a vast, undulating expanse of gorse and heath. Ancient, weathered stone walls delineate the small, irregular fields surrounding Boswarthen, where the soil clings tenaciously to the underlying igneous rock. A short distance away, the moss-softened stones of the Madron Well Chapel offer a silent meditation on the centuries of pilgrims who once sought solace in the trickling, cold waters of the nearby holy well. The light in this corner of Cornwall possesses a peculiar, silvery quality, reflecting off the mica in the granite until the very ground seems to hold a faint, subterranean luminescence. Agriculture has long defined the rhythm of these lanes, with the slow passage of seasons marked by the shifting colours of the gorse and the low, persistent hum of the wind. Boswarthen remains a place of profound stillness, where the modern world feels distant, eclipsed by the enduring weight of the moorland and the profound, unyielding character of the Cornish earth.
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About This Boswarthen, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Boswarthen, 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 Boswarthen includes coordinates 50.143096, -5.582331, 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 Boswarthen is available on the Boswarthen 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.