Ancient stone walls trace the borders of Lidwell, a quiet corner of Cornwall where the landscape retains the stubborn memory of its industrial past. It lies 3.3 miles north-north-east of Callington (from Callington: bearing 20°T, OS grid SX 378 745), and is situated north-west of Luckett village. Beneath the quiet surface of the fields, the earth reveals the skeletal remains of the New Consols Mine, where the ghosts of Victorian engineering still linger in the uneven ground. The quality of light here is particularly silver, catching the damp moss upon old mining ruins that stand a mere half-mile away as silent sentinels of a busier age. Lidwell occupies a landscape defined by sharp inclines and the deep, verdant hollows of the Tamar Valley. Beyond the immediate boundaries, the dense canopy of Greenscoombe Wood provides a wild, untamed contrast to the orderly enclosures of the local farms. One might walk these paths and find the air crisp, carrying the faint, earthy scent of bracken and the distant, rhythmic hum of a countryside that prefers its own company.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Lidwell, 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 Lidwell includes coordinates 50.548032, -4.290245, 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 Lidwell is available on the Lidwell 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.