Burnthouse occupies a modest rise in the Cornish landscape, where the air holds a persistent, salt-tinged freshness carried inland from the nearby coast. It lies 1.8 miles north-west of Penryn (from Penryn: bearing 321°T, OS grid SW 768 366), and is situated south-east of Ponsanooth village. The terrain around Burnthouse slopes gently towards the verdant seclusion of Enys, a historic estate where ancient trees frame the changing light of the seasons. To the north-east, the landscape retains the silent, grassy mounds of the three round barrows near Devichoys Barton, reminders of a pre-industrial quiet that still lingers in the fields. Sunlight here catches the grey stone of local walls, illuminating a topography defined more by agricultural patience than by the clamour of modern development. The nearby River Kennall once powered the machinery of a bustling industrial past, yet today its waters move with a subdued, rhythmic clarity through the undergrowth. Burnthouse remains a place of quiet transition, standing as a firm point of reference amidst the rolling, hedgerow-lined geometry of the south-western peninsula.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Burnthouse, 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 Burnthouse includes coordinates 50.187973, -5.128044, 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 Burnthouse is available on the Burnthouse 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.