Hewas Water emerges from the damp, low-lying folds of the Cornish countryside where the light often catches the silver veins of trickling brooks. It lies 3.3 miles west-south-west of St Austell (from St Austell: bearing 241°T, OS grid SW 967 500), and is situated west of Sticker village. The land here carries the quiet exhaustion of an industrial past, marked by the rusted memory of tin extraction that once stirred these valleys. To the east, the earth rises toward the high, windswept ridge of Sticker Down, a vantage point where the wind strips the air of all artifice. The horizon is broken by the skeletal remnants of the South Polgooth Mine, where moss now colonises the stone ruins like a slow, green tide. Hewas Water remains tethered to this rugged topography, a place where the modern road cuts through a landscape still haunted by the deep, subterranean work of earlier generations. Winter rains bring a particular clarity to the watercourses, turning the ditches into miniature, rushing rivers that mirror the grey, slate-heavy skies. Through these hollows, the air tastes of wet granite and the cold, unyielding ambition of the men who once dug beneath the surface of this parish.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Hewas Water, 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 Hewas Water includes coordinates 50.314898, -4.856612, 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 Hewas Water is available on the Hewas Water 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.