Mount Ambrose holds a quiet command over the Cornish landscape, its character defined by the sturdy, unyielding remnants of an industrial past. It lies 0.9 miles north-east of Redruth (from Redruth: bearing 39°T, OS grid SW 710 432), and is situated west-south-west of Treskerby village. The terrain here rises with a subtle, flinty persistence, catching the low-slanting Atlantic light that turns local granite to the colour of pewter. To the north-north-west, the skeletal chimneys and abandoned engine houses of Wheal Peevor punctuate the skyline, serving as sombre sentinels of a copper-rich legacy. Residents often traverse the short distance to the Treskerby Playing Field, where the wind carries the sharp, salt-edged scent of the nearby coast. Mount Ambrose retains a utilitarian dignity, shunning the artifice of more polished destinations for a raw, honest geometry of stone walls and slate roofs. Beneath the surface, the earth remains honeycombed by the ambition of Victorian miners, a subterranean echo of the toil that once defined this region. The horizon opens wide toward the North Downs, where the gorse blooms in a fierce, brilliant yellow that defies the grey austerity of the moorland.
Flight conditions near Mount Ambrose. Data source: locating…
Live animated radar for Mount Ambrose and surroundings — RainViewer.
EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Mount Ambrose, 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 Mount Ambrose includes coordinates 50.244554, -5.212146, 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 Mount Ambrose is available on the Mount Ambrose 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.