Little Bosullow emerges from the rugged granite spine of the Penwith peninsula, where the Atlantic salt air scours the gorse and lichen-crusted stone. It lies 3.3 miles east-north-east of St Just (from St Just: bearing 58°T, OS grid SW 417 339), and is situated north-north-west of Newbridge village. The horizon here is dominated by the stark, monumental presence of West Lanyon Quoit, a portal dolmen that anchors the sky like a fallen shard of the earth’s own history. Ancient field systems and hut circles lie nearby, their circular foundations marking where long-forgotten hearths once glowed against the creeping moorland fog. Little Bosullow breathes in the silence of these high, exposed plateaus, where the light shifts with a sudden, sharp clarity that catches the grey edges of the moor. To the west, the ruined ramparts of Chûn Castle stand as a reminder of an age when this landscape was defined by defensive strength rather than the quiet grazing of hardy cattle. Farmers still work the thin, acidic soil with a stubborn patience, indifferent to the centuries that dissolve into the surrounding bracken. Visitors walking the path towards the coast find that the wind dictates the pace, blowing with a constancy that defines the very character of this high, lonely corner of Cornwall.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Little 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 Little Bosullow includes coordinates 50.149612, -5.615903, 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 Little Bosullow is available on the Little 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.