St Martin rises above the coastal fringe of south-east Cornwall, a place where the salt-heavy air of the Channel meets the quiet persistence of ancient farmland. It lies 1.1 miles north-north-east of Looe (from Looe: bearing 17°T, OS grid SX 261 550). The parish church of St Martin acts as a silent anchor, its weathered stone tower watching over a landscape that shifts from emerald fields to the rugged, low-lying marshes of Trenant Point. Sunlight here possesses a peculiar clarity, catching the slate roofs and sharpening the outlines of the hedgerows that divide the undulating slopes. Below the ridge, the sheltered crescent of Millendreath Beach reveals the rhythmic retreat of the tide, pulling the memory of the sea against the shore. The land around St Martin maintains a deliberate stillness, indifferent to the busier pulse of the nearby harbour town. Residents walk paths that have long served the needs of agriculture, tracing the contours of a terrain shaped by centuries of careful husbandry. Even on days when the mist rolls inland, the character of the ground remains firm, defined by the enduring weight of the granite and the cool, damp breath of the Atlantic.
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This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for St Martin, 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 St Martin includes coordinates 50.369326, -4.446307, 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 St Martin is available on the St Martin 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.