Penhole emerges from the rugged Cornish landscape as a cluster of stone-wrought stillness amidst the rolling green of the south-west. It lies 5.7 miles south-south-west of Launceston (from Launceston: bearing 206°T, OS grid SX 288 762), and is situated south-west of Coad's Green village. The earth here holds the heavy, damp scent of ancient pasture, where the morning mist often clings to the hedgerows long after the sun has climbed the horizon. To the north, the earth rises toward the ancient earthworks of Round Called Rings Camp, a silent sentinel that has watched over the shifting seasons for centuries. The light in Penhole possesses a singular, pearlescent quality, softening the sharp edges of granite walls and turning the local fields into a patchwork of muted emerald and slate. Water remains a vital, quiet presence in the vicinity, as the nearby Shales Brook carves its persistent path through the lower ground, feeding the low-lying moisture that defines the local soil. Penhole remains untouched by the clamour of modern thoroughfares, maintaining a solitude that feels as permanent as the bedrock beneath the fields. Every stone and furrow seems to sigh with the weight of long-forgotten labour, grounding Penhole in the quiet, unyielding rhythm of the land itself.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Penhole, 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 Penhole includes coordinates 50.560969, -4.417728, 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 Penhole is available on the Penhole 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.