Polgooth, Cornwall Weather
About Polgooth, Cornwall
Polgooth retains a quiet gravity, shaped by the deep, industrial echoes of its past. It lies 1.7 miles south-west of St Austell (from St Austell: bearing 222°T, OS grid SW 995 504), and is situated east-south-east of Trelowth village. The landscape here feels heavy with the memory of tin, where the skeletal remains of the South Polgooth Mine still haunt the hillsides like rusted sentinels of a vanished trade. Water moves with purpose through the valley, as the Polgooth Stream carves a narrow, persistent path that catches the low, slanted light of the Cornish afternoon. Beyond the immediate dwellings, the ground rises toward the prominence of Sticker Down, providing a vantage point where the wind carries a salt-sharpened chill from the nearby coast. Buildings in Polgooth often wear the grey, sturdy face of local stone, reflecting a utilitarian permanence that has outlasted the boom of the mines. The air here holds a stillness that suggests a life lived away from the main thoroughfares, where the hum of modern traffic is replaced by the rhythmic clatter of birds in the hedgerows. It is a place that demands a slow pace, rewarding the curious eye with the subtle, enduring textures of a working history.
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About This Polgooth, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Polgooth, 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 Polgooth includes coordinates 50.320141, -4.816885, 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 Polgooth is available on the Polgooth 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.