Castledore emerges from the Cornish landscape as a quiet ridge-top place where the air holds a singular clarity. It lies 2.2 miles east of St Blazey (from St Blazey: bearing 92°T, OS grid SX 103 545), and is situated east of Tywardreath village. The ground beneath Castledore carries the weight of ancient earthworks, most notably the small multivallate hillfort called Castle Dore, which remains a silent sentinel of iron-age ambition just a short distance to the north-north-east. This high ground overlooks a countryside marked by the echoes of past conflict, as the terrain encompasses portions of the registered battlefield associated with the events of late August and early September 1644. During the long afternoons, the light here possesses a distinct, pale quality that seems to bleach the colour from the stone walls and sharpen the shadows cast by the surrounding hedgerows. Beyond the immediate reach of the dwellings, the landscape dips toward the moisture of the lowlands, where the Treesmill Stream traces a path through the verdant valley floor. Castledore retains a composure that suggests a long, slow observation of the turning seasons, indifferent to the hurried pace of the modern world.
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Live animated radar for Castledore and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Castledore, 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 Castledore includes coordinates 50.360546, -4.667541, 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 Castledore is available on the Castledore 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.