Sparry Bottom, Cornwall Weather
About Sparry Bottom, Cornwall
Sparry Bottom marks a quiet intersection of Cornish earth where the relics of mining history press against the soft, persistent green of the countryside. It lies 2.2 miles east of Redruth (from Redruth: bearing 101°T, OS grid SW 735 412), and is situated east-south-east of Carharrack village. The landscape here retains the skeletal remains of an industrial age, as the jagged silhouette of the Consols Mine Clock Tower rises to the north-east like a sentinel watching over the shifting light of the valley. To the north-west, the stone shell of St Day Old Church stands in meditative silence, its roofless walls framing the clouds as they drift over the rugged terrain. Sparry Bottom itself remains defined by this proximity to the past, where the ground bears the memory of deep shafts and the heavy labour of centuries. The air carries a particular clarity here, often catching the golden, low-angled sun that seems to linger longer over the slopes of Carn Marth. Paths wind through the gorse and hardy grasses, connecting the hamlet to the broader, scarred beauty of a region that has long since traded its engine houses for the quietude of nature. This is a place where the horizon feels expansive, defined by the stark, honest geometry of a land that has been worked, left behind, and reclaimed by the slow, rhythmic pulse of the seasons.
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About This Sparry Bottom, Cornwall Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Sparry Bottom, 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 Sparry Bottom includes coordinates 50.228128, -5.176179, 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 Sparry Bottom is available on the Sparry Bottom 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.