Madron commands a high, windswept ridge that looks out across the salt-stung expanse of Mount’s Bay. It lies 1.6 miles north-west of Penzance (from Penzance: bearing 309°T, OS grid SW 451 320). Granite walls, weathered to the colour of pewter by centuries of Atlantic gales, define the narrow lanes that wind through the heart of Madron. A quiet solemnity clings to the ancient wayside cross in the churchyard, where the stone surface bears the marks of lichen and the slow, patient erosion of time. Beyond the church, the landscape softens into the lush, sheltered hollows of Trengwainton Gardens, where exotic flora thrives in the mild, damp air of the Cornish peninsula. The light here possesses a singular, pearlescent quality, reflecting off the nearby waters of Boscathnoe Reservoir to brighten the grey stone of the parish buildings. Residents of Madron walk paths that lead toward the rugged, expansive horizon of the West Penwith Moors, a wild terrain where the sky feels vast and indifferent to human passage. Life in Madron continues with a steady, enduring gravity, tethered to the bedrock of a land that remembers the voices of those who laboured on these hills long before the present day.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Madron, 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 Madron includes coordinates 50.133213, -5.567595, 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 Madron is available on the Madron 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.