Great Bosullow, Cornwall Weather
About Great Bosullow, Cornwall
Great Bosullow occupies a quiet stretch of high ground where the Atlantic winds brush against the rugged granite spine of the Penwith peninsula. It lies 3.0 miles east-north-east of St Just (from St Just: bearing 60°T, OS grid SW 414 336), and is situated north-north-west of Newbridge village. The landscape around Great Bosullow is defined by an austere beauty, marked by wide, treeless horizons that catch the shifting grey and silver light of the Cornish sky. To the west, the iron-age earthworks of Chûn Castle rise from the gorse, serving as a silent sentinel over the surrounding heathland. Ancient stones remain scattered across the fields, including the nearby portal dolmen known as West Lanyon Quoit, which sits as a heavy, deliberate anchor in the grass. Agricultural life here remains sparse and hard-won, dictated by the thin, acidic soil and the salt-laden air that keeps the vegetation low and resilient. Great Bosullow maintains a sense of distance from the busier coastal fringes, offering instead a stark, elemental clarity that feels entirely removed from the modern world.
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About This Great Bosullow, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Great Bosullow, 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 Great Bosullow includes coordinates 50.146245, -5.620857, 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 Great Bosullow is available on the Great Bosullow 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.